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Attorney General and law‑enforcement groups back LB386 pilot; bar groups and defense counsel warn about telehearing safeguards
Summary
LB386 would fund a pilot allowing a county law‑enforcement agency to add mental‑health beds within or adjacent to a secure local facility to reduce long transports from rural counties; supporters called it a rural solution, opponents raised due‑process and procedural concerns about video hearing provisions.
Senator Tanya Storer introduced LB386, the Mental Health Pilot Program Act, to authorize a pilot allowing the Nebraska Crime Commission to select a county law‑enforcement agency to add mental‑health bed capacity in an existing secured local facility so individuals held under emergency protective custody (EPC) could receive more timely evaluation and care.
Storer said the pilot targets rural challenges: “many counties … face long travel distances” to regional centers, and officers often spend hours or more transporting people in crisis. The bill would permit a county to use a secured room within a facility that already provides secured access (for…
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