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1 1 Section 1. Section 22.7, subsection 5, Code Supplement
1 2 1995, is amended to read as follows:
1 3 5. Peace officers' investigative reports, except where
1 4 disclosure is authorized elsewhere in this Code. However, the
1 5 date, time, specific location, and immediate facts and
1 6 circumstances surrounding a crime or incident shall not be
1 7 kept confidential under this section, except where the victim
1 8 of the crime or incident is under the age of eighteen years or
1 9 in those unusual circumstances where disclosure would plainly
1 10 and seriously jeopardize an investigation or pose a clear and
1 11 present danger to the safety of an individual who is not a
1 12 victim under the age of eighteen.
1 13 Sec. 2. Section 22.7, subsection 18, paragraph c, Code
1 14 Supplement 1995, is amended to read as follows:
1 15 c. Information contained in the communication is a public
1 16 record to the extent that it indicates the date, time,
1 17 specific location, and immediate facts and circumstances
1 18 surrounding the occurrence of a crime or other illegal act,
1 19 except to the extent that its disclosure would plainly and
1 20 seriously jeopardize a continuing investigation or pose a
1 21 clear and present danger to the safety of any person who is
1 22 not a victim of the crime or other illegal act under the age
1 23 of eighteen. Identifying information regarding a victim under
1 24 the age of eighteen of a crime or other illegal act shall be
1 25 kept confidential. In any action challenging the failure of
1 26 the lawful custodian to disclose any particular information of
1 27 the kind enumerated in this paragraph, the burden of proof is
1 28 on the lawful custodian to demonstrate that the disclosure of
1 29 that information would jeopardize such an investigation or
1 30 would pose such a clear and present danger.
1 31 EXPLANATION
1 32 This bill provides that identifying information regarding a
1 33 juvenile who is the victim of a crime or incident shall be
1 34 kept as a confidential public record.
1 35 LSB 3427HH 76
2 1 mk/jw/5.2
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