{"id":40225,"date":"2026-02-27T12:31:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T18:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=40225"},"modified":"2026-02-27T12:31:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T18:31:51","slug":"study-of-missing-black-women-and-children-authorized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=40225","title":{"rendered":"Study of missing Black women and children authorized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bill aimed at improving the reporting and investigation of missing Black women and children in Nebraska was given final approval Feb. 27.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_37096\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37096\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"37096\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=37096\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SenSpivey_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"200,300\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Office of University Communication&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS R5&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Ashlei Spivey District 13. Legislature - 2025 Incoming Senators. November 20, 2024. Photo by Craig Chandler \/ University Communication.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1729275381&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9 2019, The Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska. All rights reserved.&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;135&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Mark Wilkins Lab&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SenSpivey_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Ashlei Spivey&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Ashlei Spivey&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SenSpivey_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37096\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SenSpivey_inline.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Ashlei Spivey\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37096\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Ashlei Spivey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Under LB751, introduced by Sen. Ashlei Spivey of Omaha, the Nebraska State Patrol is required to conduct a study to determine ways to expand criminal justice resources for reporting and identifying missing Black women and children.<\/p>\n<p>The patrol will collaborate with state and federal agencies, including the Nebraska Commission on African American Affairs and the U.S. Department of Justice, to assess the scope of the issue, identify barriers and improve information sharing and coordination.<\/p>\n<p>An electronic report detailing the study\u2019s findings \u2014 including data, analysis, identified barriers and possible future legislation \u2014 is due to the Legislature\u2019s Executive Board by June 1, 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers passed the measure on a 47-1 vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bill aimed at improving the reporting and investigation of missing Black women and children in Nebraska was given final approval Feb. 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36723,"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":[13],"tags":[302],"class_list":["post-40225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-judiciary","tag-sen-ashlei-spivey"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/UpdateBlogPhoto-2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40225","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=40225"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40227,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40225\/revisions\/40227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}