{"id":21886,"date":"2017-04-20T14:16:07","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T20:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=21886"},"modified":"2017-04-20T14:16:07","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T20:16:07","slug":"withholding-of-law-enforcement-officer-addresses-advanced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=21886","title":{"rendered":"Withholding of law enforcement officer addresses advanced"},"content":{"rendered":"

A law enforcement officer could apply to have his or her home address withheld from the public under a bill advanced from general file April 20.

\"Sen.
Sen. Anna Wishart<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

Introduced by Sen. Anna Wishart of Lincoln, LB624 would direct county assessors and registers of deeds to withhold from the public the residential address of a law enforcement officer who applies and pays a $25 fee unless the address is requested in writing. Officers would be required to renew their applications every five years.<\/p>\n

Wishart said the nature of law enforcement officers\u2019 work sometimes puts officers and their families in danger. The bill would prevent someone from simply looking up an officer\u2019s address on a county assessor\u2019s website, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe added step of having to request the address in writing will hopefully make a person with bad intentions stop and think twice about what they are doing,\u201d Wishart said. \u201cA request made in writing would also take away the anonymity that the internet provides.\u201d <\/p>\n

A Government, Military and Veterans Affairs Committee amendment, adopted 34-0, eliminated the proposed fee. <\/p>\n

Lawmakers voted 32-0 to advance the bill to select file. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A law enforcement officer could apply to have his or her home address withheld from the public under a bill advanced from general file April 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21875,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[180],"class_list":["post-21886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government-military-and-veterans-affairs","tag-sen-anna-wishart"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/LB624Wishart4-20-17a.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21886"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21889,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21886\/revisions\/21889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}