§ 25-21,279.Action to seek injunction; authorized.

Nebraska’s Crime Victim’s Reparations Act sets out rights and benefits for people harmed by crime, but a right without a way to enforce it is only a promise. Section 25-21,279 gives that enforcement mechanism teeth. A victim, using the definition found in section 81-1848, can go to civil court and ask for an injunction, a court order compelling compliance, to enforce the Reparations Act and the surrounding sections 81-1843 to 81-1851.

This puts the power to enforce these victim-protection statutes directly in the hands of the person the law is meant to protect, rather than leaving enforcement solely to a state agency or prosecutor. If an entity subject to the Reparations Act is not honoring its obligations, the victim named in section 81-1848 does not have to wait for someone else to act.