Nebraska

Nebraska's 93 sheriffs are constitutional officers. The Nebraska Crime Commission operates a state-level Officer Misconduct and Oversight Center. Douglas County (Omaha) has an internal Office of Professional Standards within the Sheriff's Office, but no external civilian review body covering the Douglas County Sheriff exists. No county-level sheriff oversight body exists anywhere in Nebraska.
Sheriff oversight
0/93 counties with a dedicated body 0 reports from those bodies
Other oversight
0 Civil Grand Jury reports 0 statewide oversight reports
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93 sheriffs named · of 93 counties
Population, budget, $ per resident, staffing, and jail capacity across all 93 counties.

Data from CA State Controller's Office and CA State Sheriffs' Association.

State context

Nebraska's 93 sheriffs are elected county officers, one in each county. No Nebraska county has established a civilian oversight body for its sheriff's office. The Nebraska Crime Commission operates a state-level Officer Misconduct and Oversight Center, but its authority is statewide and does not create county-level review of any individual sheriff's office. Douglas County (Omaha), Nebraska's most populous county, maintains an internal Office of Professional Standards within the Sheriff's Office; this is a review function administered by the office itself, not an external civilian body. No county in Nebraska currently has an independent civilian oversight body covering its sheriff.

Nebraska sheriffs are elected county officers under Neb. Rev. Stat. § 23-1701, which sets the residency and filing terms for a candidate seeking election as sheriff of a county. Nebraska has no consolidated city-county government; each of its 93 counties elects its own sheriff independently.

Counties

0 of 93 counties have a dedicated civilian sheriff oversight body. Highlighted rows have an established body. See methodology for scoring.

# County Status (date) Started (date) LE capability Independence

No record found · 93 counties

  • Adams
  • Antelope
  • Arthur
  • Banner
  • Blaine
  • Boone
  • Box Butte
  • Boyd
  • Brown
  • Buffalo
  • Burt
  • Butler
  • Cass
  • Cedar
  • Chase
  • Cherry
  • Cheyenne
  • Clay
  • Colfax
  • Cuming
  • Custer
  • Dakota
  • Dawes
  • Dawson
  • Deuel
  • Dixon
  • Dodge
  • Douglas
  • Dundy
  • Fillmore
  • Franklin
  • Frontier
  • Furnas
  • Gage
  • Garden
  • Garfield
  • Gosper
  • Grant
  • Greeley
  • Hall
  • Hamilton
  • Harlan
  • Hayes
  • Hitchcock
  • Holt
  • Hooker
  • Howard
  • Jefferson
  • Johnson
  • Kearney
  • Keith
  • Keya Paha
  • Kimball
  • Knox
  • Lancaster
  • Lincoln
  • Logan
  • Loup
  • Madison
  • McPherson
  • Merrick
  • Morrill
  • Nance
  • Nemaha
  • Nuckolls
  • Otoe
  • Pawnee
  • Perkins
  • Phelps
  • Pierce
  • Platte
  • Polk
  • Red Willow
  • Richardson
  • Rock
  • Saline
  • Sarpy
  • Saunders
  • Scotts Bluff
  • Seward
  • Sheridan
  • Sherman
  • Sioux
  • Stanton
  • Thayer
  • Thomas
  • Thurston
  • Valley
  • Washington
  • Wayne
  • Webster
  • Wheeler
  • York