Expanding Protective Custody Power Facing Opposition
Currently law enforcement has the power to take someone into protective custody, primarily if they present a threat to themselves or others. But proposed bill, LB 964, would give mental health professionals the power to take someone into protective custody to take some of that time-consuming pressure off laws enforcement. But Kasey Moyer, executive director of the Mental Health Associations of Nebraska, lists reasons why the bill's purpose may have too many potentially negative consquences.