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Victim Services

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Definitions.

Compensation commissioners; appointment; Chief Victim Compensation Commissioner; temporary victim compensation commissioners; compensation.

Section
54-202a

Executive director. Appointment; term; salary; duties. Deputy director of compensation. Deputy director of victim services.

Office of Victim Services established. Powers and duties.

Application for compensation services. Report and examination. Confidential information.

Evaluation of application. Determination. Request for review by compensation commissioner.

Section
54-205a

Discontinuance of debt collection efforts upon receipt of notice of pending claim from Office of Victim Services.

Payment of attorneys as part of order. Payment of providers by attorney representing the victim.

Regulations to prescribe procedures.

Section
54-207a

Chief Court Administrator to prescribe policies and procedures.

Order of payment of compensation. Criminal intent. Circumstances considered. Prosecution not necessary. Amount and manner of payments. Unclaimed award.

When compensation may be ordered. Order inadmissible in civil or criminal proceeding.

Compensation ordered for expenses, loss of earnings, pecuniary loss and other losses.

Time limitation on filing application for compensation. Restrictions on award of compensation. Amount of compensation.

Section
54-211a

Appeal.

Office of Victim Services to have subrogated cause of action against person responsible for crime.

Award not subject to execution or attachment.

Annual report to legislature and to appropriations committee.

Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund.

Payment for services.

Expedited processing of a claim.

Profits derived as result of crime of violence. Recovery of money judgment by victim. Payment to Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund.

Victim Services Technical Assistance Fund.

Victim advocates. Responsibilities and duties. Access to police reports.

Section
54-220a

Assignment of victim advocates to assist victims before Board of Pardons and Paroles.

Appointment of advocates for victims of crime by court.

Brochure re rights of victims and victim services. Notice concerning services for victims of human trafficking.

Section
54-222a

Duty of peace officer regarding crime victim. Regulations.

Failure to afford rights to victim shall not constitute grounds for vacating conviction or voiding sentence or parole determination.

Liability of state re failure to afford rights to victim.

Voluntary program for lawyers for protection of persons injured in person or property by civil wrong.

Definitions.

Notification of Office of Victim Services and Victim Services Unit within Department of Correction by inmate or sexual offender seeking release or other relief.

Section
54-227a

Transferred to Chapter 886, Sec. 51-286g.

Request by victim or family member of inmate for notification.

Request by prosecuting authority for notification.

Notification 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.

Section
54-230a

Notification of victims and other persons by Department of Correction when inmate or sexual offender seeks release or other relief.

Notification of Office of Victim Services by Department of Correction upon release of inmate. Access to criminal history record information.

Disposition of requests for notification received prior to April 1, 1992.

Compensation of victim of tort occurring prior to July 1, 1993.

Development of response system for victims of offense of trafficking in persons. Contracts.

Section
54-234a

Display of notice re services for victims of human trafficking at certain public and private establishments and businesses. Penalty.

State-wide automated victim information and notification system.

Sections
54-236 to 54-239

Reserved for future use.