These policies and procedures apply equally to all employees of the Nebraska Judicial Branch unless otherwise noted.

  Except where otherwise specifically stated hereinafter or in any other Nebraska Supreme Court rule, these policies expressly do not apply to judges, the Clerk of the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals, the Reporter of the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals, the State Court Administrator, the State Probation Administrator, the Counsel for Discipline, or private staff of the individual justices of the Supreme Court or judges of the Court of Appeals. Such private staff consists of administrative assistants, career law clerks, and law clerks. 

  If additional policies exist pertaining only to particular probation districts, district courts, separate juvenile courts, or county courts in which personnel are employed by the Judicial Branch, they will be explained by the chief probation officer, judge, clerk magistrate, or judicial administrator in that location. Any additional policy, however, shall require approval by the Administrative Office of the Courts and Probation (AOCP) and shall be consistent with, and limited by, the provisions of these rules.

Amended July 16, 2003; amended November 24, 2021, effective January 1, 2022; amended October 23, 2024, effective January 1, 2025.