Text: HF02069 Text: HF02071 Text: HF02000 - HF02099 Text: HF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
PAG LIN 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
Text: HF02069 Text: HF02071 Text: HF02000 - HF02099 Text: HF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
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