State officials have initiated a new bill that will establish a Nebraska Office of Public Guardian.
Nebraska is the only state in the union that does not have an Office for Public Guardianship.
Senators say the state's current system, which relies on volunteers, is unreliable.
The new bill will create an office to provide guardians that will provide conservators in situations where no family member or suitable individual is available.
When discussing the proposed bill, reference was made to the 70- year- old Scottsbluff woman, Judy Widener, who is facing felony charges for inappropriately using funds for state wards.
This bill was advanced to initial review on Friday.
4 comments:
Let's hope there will be a built-in mechanism for monitoring and oversight, which is lacking in other states, and Nebraska can be the leader there.
I know a public guardian's office is necessary. I just hate to see it have to be.
So many people have been victimized by the public guardian's office.
And when the public guardian is the one who is victimizing the elderly and disabled, as in Virginia, who's going to do anything about it?
Not the state, which will just use all its might and an army of unethical attorneys to cover its own derriere.
My worry too. There's a need but no one to police it.
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