Nebraska

What Nebraska's records show, how much of the state the FBI's data covers, and where the state publishes its own.

How Nebraska handles a case

Sets bail first: Sheriff or jailer on the county judges' bond schedule for misdemeanors; clerk magistrate in non-felony cases; county judge for felonies
Who that is: Judges and others
Release on a schedule: Jail or police can release on a schedule
Time to see a judge: No hour limit set
Money bail: Limited
Risk assessment: Some counties
Prosecutor: County attorney, one per county, elected
Public defense: Mixed
Jails run by: Mixed

Who decides release first: For misdemeanors, the sheriff or jailer may release a person on bail up to the amount on the county judges' bond schedule, or call a judge whose verbal order replaces it. Clerk magistrates may set bail in non-felony cases. For felonies, a county judge sets release at the first appearance.
Neb. Ct. R. 6-1416 Neb. Rev. Stat. 24-519
Time to see a judge: An arresting officer must take the person before a magistrate. No Nebraska statute or rule found sets a number of hours.
Neb. Rev. Stat. 29-412
Money bail: Judges must release most people on recognizance and consider ability to pay before setting a bond. For the lowest misdemeanors and ordinance violations, a judge can require money bond only if the person missed court in the past six months, was arrested on a warrant, and is a flight or safety risk; this limit doesn't apply to intimate partner or DUI charges.
Neb. Rev. Stat. 29-901

Crime and arrests

No figures yet

Reported offenses and arrests per 100,000 people, year by year, and how Nebraska compares with the country. They will come from the FBI's state totals.

FBI data coverage

Population covered: 99%; of Nebraska's people lived under an agency that reported to the FBI in 2025.
Agencies on NIBRS: 99%; 284 of 286 agencies send incident detail. The rest send summary counts or nothing.

2 agencies not reporting through NIBRS

Nebraska State PatrolState Police
Walthill Police DepartmentCity

Counties and agencies: no data yet

Every agency in Nebraska by county, with the year each began sending incident detail to the FBI. They will come from the FBI's agency list and its NIBRS master files.

Source: FBI Crime Data Explorer, pulled 2026-09-26.

State crime reporting

Program: Nebraska Crime Commission (Nebraska Commission on Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice), UCR/NIBRS program
Incident reporting: State NIBRS repository run by the Crime Commission (NIBRS Materials page); no brand name found
Annual report: Crime in NebraskaLatest edition: 2024. Editions online 2014 to 2024.
Online portal: Crime Stats (crimestats.ne.gov) plus legacy Offense, Arrest, and Jail data queries
What changed: The 2024 edition cover says it was released in 2026, about 18 months after the data year.

Links and years checked 2026-09-26.

Nebraska sources

2 sources

Nebraska Crime Commission Data and ReportsState · NE
Nebraska Crime Commission · Incidents, Arrests, Jails · pdf, html · annual
State UCR/NIBRS repository; annual Crime in Nebraska PDF plus offense/arrest query tools and jail data.
Nebraska district and county court annual caseload reportsState · NE
Nebraska Administrative Office of the Courts and Probation · Courts · pdf · annual
County (93) filings: district Felony 1, Other Criminal; county court Felony, Felony 4, Misd. FY2021-FY2025, not comparable with earlier years.

Plus 83 national sources, from the FBI, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the Census Bureau, the courts, and others.