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NE Code § 86-276 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 86 - Telecommunications and Technology|86-276 - Electronic communication, defined.

86-276.  Electronic communication, defined.Electronic communication means any transfer of signs, signals, writing, images, sounds, data, or intelligence of any nature transmitted in whole or in part by a wire, radio, electromagnetic, photoelectronic, or photooptical system but does not include:(1) The radio portion of a cordless telephone communication that is transmitted between the cordless telephone handset and the base unit;(2) Any wire or oral communication;(3) Any communication made through a tone-only mobile paging device; or(4) Any communication from a mobile tracking device as defined in section 86-2,103.Source Laws 2002, LB 1105, § 138.
NE Code § 86-277 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 86 - Telecommunications and Technology|86-277 - Electronic communication service, defined.

86-277.  Electronic communication service, defined.Electronic communication service means any service which provides to users thereof the ability to send or receive wire or electronic communication.Source Laws 2002, LB 1105, § 139.
NE Code § 86-278 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 86 - Telecommunications and Technology|86-278 - Electronic communication system, defined.

86-278.  Electronic communication system, defined.Electronic communication system means any wire, radio, electromagnetic, photooptical, or photoelectronic facilities for the transmission of electronic communications and any computer facilities or related electronic equipment for the electronic storage of such communication.Source Laws 2002, LB 1105, § 140.
NE Code § 86-279 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 86 - Telecommunications and Technology|86-279 - Electronic storage, defined.

86-279.  Electronic storage, defined.Electronic storage means:(1) Any temporary, intermediate storage of a wire or electronic communication incidental to the electronic transmission thereof; and(2) Any storage of such communication by an electronic communication service for purposes of backup protection of such communication.Source Laws 2002, LB 1105, § 141.
NE Code § 86-280 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 86 - Telecommunications and Technology|86-280 - Intercept, defined.

86-280.  Intercept, defined.Intercept means the aural or other acquisition of the contents of any wire, electronic, or oral communication through the use of any electronic, mechanical, or other device.Source Laws 2002, LB 1105, § 142.
NE Code § 86-281 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 86 - Telecommunications and Technology|86-281 - Investigative or law enforcement officer, defined.

86-281.  Investigative or law enforcement officer, defined.Investigative or law enforcement officer means a law enforcement officer as defined in section 81-1401 and includes the Attorney General and his or her deputies or assistants, a county attorney and his or her deputies, and agents of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, Drug Enforcement Administration, Marshals Service, Secret Service, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, Treasury Department, Customs Service, Justice Department, and Internal Revenue Service.Source Laws 2002, LB 1105, § 143.
NE Code § 86-282 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 86 - Telecommunications and Technology|86-282 - Mobile telephone communication, defined.

86-282.  Mobile telephone communication, defined.Mobile telephone communication means a radio communication that is transmitted on frequencies allocated under 47 C.F.R. 26.301, as such regulation existed on January 1, 2002.Source Laws 2002, LB 1105, § 144.
NE Code § 86-283 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 86 - Telecommunications and Technology|86-283 - Oral communication, defined.

86-283.  Oral communication, defined.Oral communication means any oral communication uttered by a person exhibiting an expectation that such communication is not subject to interception under circumstances justifying such expectation but does not include any electronic communication.Source Laws 2002, LB 1105, § 145. Annotations Pursuant to subsection (12) of this section (recodified in 2002 as section 86-283) there is no objective expectation of privacy in face-to-face conversations occurring in jail visiting rooms. State v. Strohl, 255 Neb. 918, 587 N.W.2d. 675 (1999).
NE Code § 86-284 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 86 - Telecommunications and Technology|86-284 - Pen register, defined.

86-284.  Pen register, defined.Pen register means a device which records or decodes electronic or other impulses which identify the numbers dialed or otherwise transmitted on the telephone line to which such device is attached but does not include (1) any device used by a provider or customer of an electronic communication service for billing or recording as an incident to billing for communication service provided by such provider or (2) any device used by a provider or customer of an electronic communication service for cost accounting or other like purposes in the ordinary course of its business.Source Laws 2002, LB 1105, § 146.
NE Code § 86-285 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 86 - Telecommunications and Technology|86-285 - Provider, defined.

86-285.  Provider, defined.Provider means any person who provides an electronic communication service and who has authorized access to or possession or control of the facilities or equipment necessary to implement (1) the order to intercept a wire or electronic communication or (2) the order to install a pen register or a trap-and-trace device.Source Laws 2002, LB 1105, § 147.
NE Code § 86-286 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 86 - Telecommunications and Technology|86-286 - Readily accessible to the general public, defined.

86-286.  Readily accessible to the general public, defined.Readily accessible to the general public means, with respect to a radio communication, that such communication is not:(1) Scrambled or encrypted;(2) Transmitted using modulation techniques the essential parameters of which have been withheld from the public with the intention of preserving the privacy of such communication;(3) Carried on a subcarrier or other signal subsidiary to a radio transmission;(4) Transmitted over an electronic communication system by a provider unless the communication is a tone-only paging system communication; or(5) Transmitted on frequencies allocated for satellite communications under 47 C.F.R. part 25, for remote pickup broadcast stations under subpart D of 47 C.F.R. part 74, for aural broadcast auxiliary stations under subpart E of 47 C.F.R. part 74, for television broadcast auxiliary stations under subpart F of 47 C.F.R. part 74, or for fixed microwave services under 47 C.F.R. part 101, as such regulations existed on January 1, 2002, unless, in the case of a communication transmitted on a frequency allocated under 47 C.F.R. part 74 that is not exclusively allocated to broadcast auxiliary services, the communication is a two-way voice communication by radio.Source Laws 2002, LB 1105, § 148.
NE Code § 86-287 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 86 - Telecommunications and Technology|86-287 - Trap-and-trace device, defined.

86-287.  Trap-and-trace device, defined.Trap-and-trace device means a device which captures the incoming electronic or other impulses which identify the originating number of an instrument or device from which a wire or electronic communication was transmitted.Source Laws 2002, LB 1105, § 149.
NE Code § 86-288 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 86 - Telecommunications and Technology|86-288 - User, defined.

86-288.  User, defined.User means any person or entity who:(1) Uses an electronic communication service; and(2) Is duly authorized by the provider of such service to engage in such use.Source Laws 2002, LB 1105, § 150.
NE Code § 86-289 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 86 - Telecommunications and Technology|86-289 - Wire communication, defined.

86-289.  Wire communication, defined.Wire communication means any aural transfer made in whole or in part through the use of facilities for the transmission of communications by the aid of wire, cable, or other like connection, including the use of such connection in a switching station, between the point of origin and the point of reception furnished or operated by any person engaged in providing or operating such facilities for the transmission of communications. Wire communication includes any electronic storage of such communication but does not include the radio portion of a cordless telephone communication that is transmitted between the cordless telephone handset and the base unit.Source Laws 2002, LB 1105, § 151.
NE Code § 86-292 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 86 - Telecommunications and Technology|86-292 - Interception; privileged use.

86-292.  Interception; privileged use.(1) Any investigative or law enforcement officer who, by any means authorized by sections 86-271 to 86-295, has obtained knowledge of the contents of any wire, electronic, or oral communication or evidence derived therefrom may disclose such contents to another investigative or law enforcement officer to the extent that such disclosure is appropriate to the proper performance of the official duties of the officer making or receiving the disclosure.(2) Any investigative or law enforcement officer who, by any means authorized by sections 86-271 to 86-295, has obtained knowledge of the contents of any wire, electronic, or oral communication or evidence derived therefrom may use such contents to the extent such use is appropriate to the proper performance of his or her official duties.(3) Any person who has received, by any means authorized by sections 86-271 to 86-295, any information concerning a wire, electronic, or oral communication or evidence derived therefrom intercepted in accordance with sections 86-271 to 86-295 may disclose the contents of that communication or such derivative evidence while giving testimony under oath or affirmation in any criminal proceeding held under the authority of the United States, of this state, or of any other state.(4) No otherwise privileged wire, electronic, or oral communication intercepted in accordance with, or in violation of, sections 86-271 to 86-295 shall lose its privileged character.(5) When an investigative or law enforcement officer, while engaged in intercepting wire, electronic, or oral communications in the manner authorized herein, intercepts wire, electronic, or oral communications relating to offenses other than those specified in the order of authorization or approval, the contents thereof and evidence derived therefrom may be disclosed or used as provided in subsections (1) and (2) of this section. Such contents and any evidence derived therefrom may be used under subsection (3) of this section when authorized or approved by a judge of a district court when such judge finds on subsequent application that the contents were otherwise intercepted in accordance with sections 86-271 to 86-295. Such application shall be made as soon as practicable.Source   Laws 1969, c. 854, § 4, p. 3213;   Laws 1988, LB 899, § 4;   R.S.1943, (1999), § 86-704;  Laws 2002, LB 1105, § 154.
NE Code § 86-294 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 86 - Telecommunications and Technology|86-294 - Interception; reports.

86-294.  Interception; reports.In January of each year the Attorney General and each county attorney shall report to the Administrative Office of the United States Courts:(1) The following information with respect to each application for an order or extension made during the preceding calendar year: (a) The fact that an order or extension was applied for; (b) the kind of order or extension applied for; (c) the fact that the order or extension was granted as applied for, was modified, or was denied; (d) the period of interceptions authorized by the order, and the number and duration of any extensions of the order; (e) the offense specified in the order or application, or extension of an order; (f) the identity of the applying investigative or law enforcement officer and agency making the application and the person authorizing the application; and (g) the nature of the facilities from which or the place where communications were to be intercepted;(2) A general description of the interceptions made under such order or extension, including (a) the approximate nature and frequency of incriminating communications intercepted, (b) the approximate nature and frequency of other communications intercepted, (c) the approximate number of persons whose communications were intercepted, and (d) the approximate nature, amount, and cost of the manpower and other resources used in the interceptions;(3) The number of arrests resulting from interceptions made under such order or extension, and the offenses for which arrests were made;(4) The number of trials resulting from such interceptions;(5) The number of motions to suppress made with respect to such interceptions, and the number granted or denied;(6) The number of convictions resulting from such interceptions and the offenses for which the convictions were obtained and a general assessment of the importance of the interceptions; and(7) The information required by subdivisions (2) through (6) of this section with respect to orders or extensions obtained in the preceding calendar year.Source   Laws 1969, c. 854, § 6, p. 3218;   R.S.1943, (1999), § 86-706;  Laws 2002, LB 1105, § 156.
NE Code § 86-295 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 86 - Telecommunications and Technology|86-295 - Violations; penalty.

86-295.  Violations; penalty.It is unlawful for any person to (1) intentionally and without lawful authority cut, break, tap, or make connection with any telegraph or telephone line, wire, cable, or instrument or electronic, mechanical, or other device or read or copy in any unauthorized manner any message, communication, or report passing over it, in this state, (2) intentionally and without lawful authority prevent, obstruct, or delay, by any means or contrivance whatsoever, the sending, transmission, conveyance, or delivery in this state of any authorized message, communication, or report by or through any telegraph or telephone line, wire, or cable under the control of any telegraph or telephone company doing business in this state, (3) aid, agree with, employ, or conspire with any person or persons to unlawfully do or perform, or cause to be done, any of the acts described in subdivisions (1) and (2) of this section, or (4) occupy, use a line, or knowingly permit another to occupy, use a line, room, table, establishment, or apparatus to unlawfully do or cause to be done any of the acts described in this section. Any person who violates this section is guilty of a Class IV felony.Source   Laws 1969, c. 854, § 7, p. 3219;   Laws 1977, LB 39, § 330;   Laws 1988, LB 899, § 6;   R.S.1943, (1999), § 86-707;  Laws 2002, LB 1105, § 157.
NE Code § 86-296 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 86 - Telecommunications and Technology|86-296 - Electronic devices; prohibited acts; penalty.

86-296.  Electronic devices; prohibited acts; penalty.(1) Except as otherwise specifically provided in sections 86-271 to 86-295 and this section, any person who intentionally:(a) Sends in intrastate commerce any electronic, mechanical, or other device, knowing or having reason to know that the design of such device renders it primarily useful for the purpose of the unlawful surreptitious interception of wire, electronic, or oral communications, is guilty of a Class IV felony; or(b) Manufactures, assembles, possesses, or sells any electronic, mechanical, or other device, knowing or having reason to know that the design of such device renders it primarily useful for the purpose of the unlawful surreptitious interception of wire, electronic, or oral communications and that such device or any component thereof has been or will be transported in intrastate commerce, is guilty of a Class IV felony.(2) This section shall not be construed to prohibit the exchange of electronic, mechanical, or other devices between law enforcement officers or federally funded law enforcement associations.(3) It is unlawful for a provider or an officer, agent, or employee of or a person under contract with a provider, in the normal course of the business of providing electronic communication service, to send or carry in intrastate commerce, manufacture, assemble, possess, or sell any electronic, mechanical, or other device, knowing or having reason to know that the design of such device renders it primarily useful for the purpose of the unlawful surreptitious interception of wire, oral, or electronic communications. Any person who violates this subsection is guilty of a Class IV felony.(4) It is lawful for an officer, agent, or employee of or a person under contract with the United States, a state, or a political subdivision thereof, in the normal course of the activities of the United States, a state, or a political subdivision thereof, to send or carry in intrastate commerce, manufacture, assemble, possess, or sell any electronic, mechanical, or other device, knowing or having reason to know that the design of such device renders it primarily useful for the purpose of the unlawful surreptitious interception of wire, electronic, or oral communications.Source   Laws 1988, LB 899, § 7;   R.S.1943, (1999), § 86-707.01;  Laws 2002, LB 1105, § 158.
NE Code § 86-298 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 86 - Telecommunications and Technology|86-298 - Pen register; trap-and-trace device; restrictions on use; penalty.

86-298.  Pen register; trap-and-trace device; restrictions on use; penalty.(1) Except as provided in this section, no person may install or use a pen register or a trap-and-trace device without first obtaining a court order under section 86-2,100. Nothing in sections 86-271 to 86-2,110 shall be construed to prohibit an emergency operator from conducting a trap or trace of a telephone number during an emergency.(2) The prohibition of subsection (1) of this section shall not apply with respect to the use of a pen register or a trap-and-trace device by a provider:(a) Relating to the operation, maintenance, and testing of an electronic communication service, to the protection of the rights or property of such provider or to the protection of users of that service from abuse of service or unlawful use of service;(b) To record the fact that a wire or electronic communication was initiated or completed in order to protect such provider, another provider furnishing service toward the completion of the wire or electronic communication, or a user of such service from fraudulent, unlawful, or abusive use of service; or(c) When the consent of the user of such service has been obtained.(3) Any person who knowingly violates subsection (1) of this section is guilty of a Class I misdemeanor.Source   Laws 1988, LB 899, § 9;   R.S.1943, (1999), § 86-707.03;  Laws 2002, LB 1105, § 160.
NE Code § 86-299 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 86 - Telecommunications and Technology|86-299 - Pen register; trap-and-trace device; application for order.

86-299.  Pen register; trap-and-trace device; application for order.(1) An investigative or law enforcement officer may make application for an order or an extension of an order under section 86-2,100 authorizing or approving the installation and use of a pen register or a trap-and-trace device under sections 86-298 to 86-2,101 to a county or district court. Such application shall be in writing and shall be under oath or affirmation.(2) An application under subsection (1) of this section shall include:(a) The identity of the investigative or law enforcement officer making the application and the identity of the law enforcement agency conducting the investigation; and(b) A certification by the applicant that the information likely to be obtained is relevant to an ongoing criminal investigation being conducted by that agency.Source   Laws 1988, LB 899, § 10;   R.S.1943, (1999), § 86-707.04;  Laws 2002, LB 1105, § 161.
NE Code § 86-2,100 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 86 - Telecommunications and Technology|86-2,100 - Pen register; trap-and-trace device; court order.

86-2,100.  Pen register; trap-and-trace device; court order.(1) Upon an application made under section 86-299, the court shall enter an ex parte order authorizing the installation and use of a pen register or a trap-and-trace device within the jurisdiction of the court if the court finds that the investigative or law enforcement officer has certified to the court that the information likely to be obtained by such installation and use is relevant to an ongoing criminal investigation.(2) An order issued under this section:(a) Shall specify:(i) The identity, if known, of the person to whom is leased or in whose name is listed the telephone line to which the pen register or trap-and-trace device is to be attached;(ii) The identity, if known, of the person who is the subject of the criminal investigation;(iii) The number and, if known, physical location of the telephone line to which the pen register or trap-and-trace device is to be attached and, in the case of a trap-and-trace device, the geographic limits of the order; and(iv) A statement of the offense to which the information likely to be obtained by the pen register or trap-and-trace device relates; and(b) Shall direct, upon the request of the applicant, the furnishing of information, facilities, and technical assistance necessary to accomplish the installation of the pen register or trap-and-trace device.(3)(a) An order issued under this section shall authorize the installation and use of a pen register or a trap-and-trace device for a period not to exceed sixty days.(b) Extensions of such an order may be granted but only upon an application for an order under section 86-299 and upon the judicial finding required by subsection (1) of this section. The period of extension shall be for a period not to exceed sixty days.(4) An order issued under this section shall direct that:(a) The order be sealed until otherwise ordered by the court; and(b) The person owning or leasing the line to which the pen register or a trap-and-trace device is attached or the person who has been ordered by the court to provide assistance to the applicant not disclose the existence of the pen register or trap-and-trace device or the existence of the investigation to the listed subscriber or to any other person unless or until otherwise ordered by the court.Source   Laws 1988, LB 899, § 11;   R.S.1943, (1999), § 86-707.05;  Laws 2002, LB 1105, § 162.