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LINCOLN, Neb. (April 20, 2016) – With the stroke of a pen, Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts ended civil asset forfeiture by the state, signing a bill that reforms asset forfeiture laws to prohibit the state from taking property without a criminal conviction. The legislation also takes on federal forfeiture programs by banning prosecutors from circumventing state…
LINCOLN, Neb. (April 14, 2016) – Yesterday, the Nebraska Senate gave final approval to a bill that would reform asset forfeiture laws to prohibit the state from taking property without a criminal conviction. The legislation also takes on federal forfeiture programs by banning prosecutors from circumventing state laws by passing cases off to the feds in…
LINCOLN, Neb. (March 31, 2016) – Yesterday, Gov. Pete Ricketts signed a bill into law to help facilitate healthcare freedom, an essential component of any strategy to reject Obamacare. Sen. Merv Riepe (R-Omaha) introduced Legislative Bill 817 (LB817) back in January. The legislation specifies that direct primary care agreements (sometimes called medical retainer agreements) do…
LINCOLN, Neb. (Feb. 22, 2016) – A Nebraska bill that would put limitations on the storage and sharing of information collected with Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs) by law enforcement in the state, and place significant roadblocks in the way of a federal program using states to help track the location of millions of everyday…
LINCOLN, Neb. (Jan. 26, 2016) – Last week, an important Nebraska committee held a hearing on two bills that would protect privacy and hinder some federal surveillance programs. LB738 would completely ban law enforcement agencies in the state from purchasing and using cell-site simulator technology or devices. Any law enforcement agency already in possession of…
LINCOLN, Neb. (Jan. 17, 2016) – A bill filed in the Nebraska legislature would put limitations on the storage and sharing of information collected by Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs) by law enforcement in the state, and place significant roadblocks in the way of a federal program using states to help track the location of…
LINCOLN, Neb. (Jan. 14, 2016) – A bill introduced in the Nebraska legislature would completely ban the use “stingrays” to track the location of phones and sweep up electronic communications. Passage of the bill would not only protect privacy in the Cornhusker State, but would also hinder one aspect of the federal surveillance state. Sen.…
LINCOLN, NE. (Jan. 11, 2015) – A Nebraska bill introduced last week would set the foundation to nullify in practice some Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rules that deny access to experimental treatments by terminally ill patients. Filed by Sen. Bob Hilkemann (R-Omaha), LB804 would give terminally ill patients access to medicines not yet given final…
“May the Father of all Mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us all in our several vocations useful here, and in His own due time and way, everlastingly happy.” – George Washington Letter to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, 1790 And from us here at GiN, a song of the […]