Chapter 968. Victim Services

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54-201Definitions.54-202Compensation commissioners; appointment; Chief Victim Compensation Commissioner; temporary victim compensation commissioners; compensation.54-202aExecutive director. Appointment; term; salary; duties. Deputy director of compensation. Deputy director of victim services.54-203Office of Victim Services established. Powers and duties.54-204Application for compensation services. Report and examination. Confidential information.54-205Evaluation of application. Determination. Request for review by compensation commissioner.54-205aDiscontinuance of debt collection efforts upon receipt of notice of pending claim from Office of Victim Services.54-206Payment of attorneys as part of order. Payment of providers by attorney representing the victim.54-207Regulations to prescribe procedures.54-207aChief Court Administrator to prescribe policies and procedures.54-208Order of payment of compensation. Criminal intent. Circumstances considered. Prosecution not necessary. Amount and manner of payments. Unclaimed award.54-209When compensation may be ordered. Order inadmissible in civil or criminal proceeding.54-210Compensation ordered for expenses, loss of earnings, pecuniary loss and other losses.54-211Time limitation on filing application for compensation. Restrictions on award of compensation. Amount of compensation.54-211aAppeal.54-212Office of Victim Services to have subrogated cause of action against person responsible for crime.54-213Award not subject to execution or attachment.54-214Annual report to legislature and to appropriations committee.54-215Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund.54-216Payment for services.54-217Expedited processing of a claim.54-218Profits derived as result of crime of violence. Recovery of money judgment by victim. Payment to Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund.54-219Victim Services Technical Assistance Fund.54-220Victim advocates. Responsibilities and duties. Access to police reports.54-220aAssignment of victim advocates to assist victims before Board of Pardons and Paroles.54-221Appointment of advocates for victims of crime by court.54-222Brochure re rights of victims and victim services. Notice concerning services for victims of human trafficking.54-222aDuty of peace officer regarding crime victim. Regulations.54-223Failure to afford rights to victim shall not constitute grounds for vacating conviction or voiding sentence or parole determination.54-224Liability of state re failure to afford rights to victim.54-225Voluntary program for lawyers for protection of persons injured in person or property by civil wrong.54-226Definitions.54-227Notification of Office of Victim Services and Victim Services Unit within Department of Correction by inmate or sexual offender seeking release or other relief.54-227a54-227a54-228Request by victim, immediate family member of victim or family member of inmate for notification.54-229Request by prosecuting authority for notification.54-230Notification of victims and other persons by Office of Victim Services when inmate or sexual offender seeks release or other relief or is released from a correctional institution.54-230aNotification of victims and other persons by Department of Correction when inmate or sexual offender seeks release or other relief.54-231Notification of Office of Victim Services by Department of Correction upon release of inmate. Access to criminal history record information.54-232Disposition of requests for notification received prior to April 1, 1992.54-233Compensation of victim of tort occurring prior to July 1, 1993.54-234Development of response system for victims of offense of trafficking in persons. Contracts.54-234aDisplay of notice re services for victims of human trafficking at certain public and private establishments and businesses. Penalty.54-235State-wide automated victim information and notification system.54-236 to 54-23954-236 to 54-239