28-376 Adult Protective Services Central Registry; established; access; name-change order; treatment. - Nebraska Statutes

28-376. Adult ProtectiveServices Central Registry; established; access; name-change order; treatment.(1) The department shall establish and maintain an Adult ProtectiveServices Central Registry for recording each report of alleged abuse.(2) Upon request, a vulnerable adult who is the subject ofa report or, if the vulnerable adult is legally incapacitated, the guardianor guardian ad litem of the vulnerable adult shall be entitled to receivea copy of all information contained in the registry pertaining to his or hercase. The department shall not release data that would be harmful or detrimentalto the vulnerable adult or that would identify or locate a person who, ingood faith, made a report or cooperated in a subsequent investigation unlessordered to do so by a court of competent jurisdiction.(3) The department shall establish classifications for allcases in the registry. All cases determined to be unfounded shall be expungedfrom the registry.(4) The departmentshall determine whether a name-change order received from the clerk of a districtcourt pursuant to section 25-21,271 is for a person on the Adult ProtectiveServices Central Registry and, if so, shall include the changed name withthe former name in the registry and file or cross-reference the informationunder both names. SourceLaws 1988, LB 463, § 29; Laws 2010, LB147, § 2.Operative Date: January 1, 2012