{"id":40981,"date":"2026-04-12T11:45:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T17:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=40981"},"modified":"2026-04-12T11:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T17:46:08","slug":"crime-victim-protections-broadened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=40981","title":{"rendered":"Crime victim protections broadened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crime victims\u2019 rights and legal protections were broadened under a bill approved by lawmakers April 10.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_37408\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37408\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"37408\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=37408\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/SenBosn_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"200,300\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;9&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Office of University Communicati&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS R5&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Senator Carolyn Bosn, is a member of the Nebraska Legislature from Lincoln, Nebraska, in District 25.  April 18, 2023. Photo by Craig Chandler \/ University Communication.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1681824079&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9 2023, The Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska. All rights reserved.&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;125&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;160&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SenBosn_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Carolyn Bosn&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Carolyn Bosn&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/SenBosn_inline.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/SenBosn_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37408\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/SenBosn_inline.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Caroyln Bosn\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37408\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Carolyn Bosn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LB1181, introduced by Lincoln Sen. Carolyn Bosn, expands the definition of a crime victim for reparations purposes and clarifies victims\u2019 rights in homicide, domestic violence and post-conviction court proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>The bill expands the definition of those impacted by a crime and eligible to access protections and services under the Nebraska Crime Victims\u2019 Reparations Act to include relatives beyond immediate family members and others with close ties to the victim.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, LB1181 allows a victim to submit a written statement during a bond modification proceeding in certain abuse cases. The bill also requires notification when a defendant seeks to modify bond in domestic violence cases and allows victims or their representatives to submit impact statements during bond hearings and, subject to court limits, at sentencing.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the measure expands the definition of co-victims in homicide cases to include survivors who suffered severe emotional harm from the victim\u2019s death, determined on a case-by-case basis.<\/p>\n<p>The bill passed on a 49-0 vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crime victims\u2019 rights and legal protections were broadened under a bill approved by lawmakers April 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36722,"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":[316],"class_list":["post-40981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-judiciary","tag-sen-caroyln-bosn"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/UpdateBlogPhoto-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40981","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=40981"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40984,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40981\/revisions\/40984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}