Niki Svik, Judicial Branch Education Trainer from Lincoln, and Kevin Patras, Community Based Intervention Officer in Norfolk, will join hundreds of members of law enforcement, prosecutors, and victim advocates from across the nation who work with female victims of crime and have been awarded...

By Scott Stewart The Daily Record Hands shot up into the air at the Boys Town Music Hall last Thursday afternoon as justices of the Nebraska Supreme Court fielded a variety of questions from students wondering how much money they made, how they remain unbiased and what it took to land a spot on the...

Robert Denton has been selected as the Deputy Probation Administrator for Community-Based Programs and Field Services Division effective March 1, 2019. He joined Probation in 1989 as a probation officer in Omaha. He later served as Chief Deputy and Chief Probation Officer in District 6 (Fremont)...

Soon-to-graduate law students spoke directly with Lancaster County judges inside their courtrooms thanks to the efforts of Lancaster County District Court Judge Robert Otte and Ms. Molly Brummond, Assistant Dean for External Relations at the UNL College of Law. In late February, five Lancaster...

On March 7, 2019, Probation celebrated the contributions of 26 trainers and 10 AC4E team members, as well as three Administrative technical assistants. This team partnered with the Carey Group to launch the AC4E initiative and, in October of 2018, begin training all specialized and investigation...

Intensive News Reporting Session Held for UNL Students During National Judicial Outreach Week – March 1-10, 2019 Supreme Court Justice Jeff Funke, Clerk of the Supreme Court Wendy Wussow, and journalist Bill Kelly spent the morning of March 8, 2019, in the Nebraska Supreme Court Chambers with Prof...

The Creating Inclusive Communities Training Initiative, developed by Court and Probation personnel has received national recognition by the American Probation and Parole Association. The program, developed in 2018 with the assistance of the Inclusive Communities Organization of Omaha, received the...

Eighty 4th grade students from Wysong Elementary from Lincoln travelled to the Supreme Court Courtroom on the final day of 2019 National Judicial Outreach Week (March 1-8). Justice Stephanie Stacy greeted the group noting that usually people are not sitting on the floor of a courtroom. “They are...

Anyone -- volunteer or paid staff -- who interacts with a jury is required to take the Judicial Branch Education Jury Management Course. The course is online. Requests for the course must come through the Clerk of the District Court or Clerk Magistrate. The request form is available on the JBE...

by Meghan Straub Nebraska News Service Future Nebraska lawyers have a chance this spring to see what practicing their craft actually looks like before the Nebraska Supreme Court. On Feb. 28, the University of Nebraska College of Law hosted the Nebraska Supreme Court’s oral arguments, a tradition...