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A Nebraska private detective operates as a sole proprietor and performs every investigation personally. She now wants to hire an employee to interview witnesses and conduct surveillance under her direction. Which licensing arrangement fits the expanded business?
Correct answer: C - Obtain an agency license and employ the new investigator under a plain clothes investigator license.
A plain clothes investigator's employment with a licensed Nebraska detective agency ends on Friday. The agency itself remains licensed, and the investigator's license card displays a future expiration date. On Monday, a former agency client asks the investigator to finish the assignment independently. What is the status of the investigator's existing plain clothes investigator license?
Correct answer: C - It became null and void on Friday, when the agency employment terminated.
An applicant has a qualifying associate degree in Criminal Justice. Her verified experience consists of 1,400 hours investigating cases as a military police officer and 750 hours conducting investigations as a licensed Nebraska plain clothes investigator. She also lists 180 hours of clerical work that did not involve investigations. None of the entries overlap. How many additional qualifying investigative hours does she need for the associate-degree route?
Correct answer: D - 350 hours; only the documented investigative work counts.
During review of a Nebraska private detective application, a felony conviction and a full pardon for that conviction are identified. A reviewer proposes rejecting the application solely because the conviction was a felony. Under the Private Detective Licensing Act's conviction-disqualification provision, which assessment is sound?
Correct answer: A - The full pardon removes that conviction bar, but experience, examination, and other licensing requirements remain.
A private detective applicant presents an official license-exam score report showing 86%. The examination was taken 27 months ago, and no license was subsequently issued. What does that report establish for the applicant's present licensing application?
Correct answer: B - The applicant passed, but the result is outside its two-year validity period.
Before calling a contractor about suspected invoice fraud, a client authorizes her investigator to record the call. The client will participate throughout; the investigator will listen and record but will not speak. Everyone is in Nebraska, and the recording is solely to document a lawful claim, with no criminal or tortious purpose. Under Nebraska's interception statute, must the investigator obtain the contractor's consent?
Correct answer: A - No; the client's prior consent as a participant supports the recording exception.
A subcontractor delivers an audio file to a detective and admits obtaining it by unlawfully intercepting a private call. The detective knows the interception was illegal but proposes giving the client's attorney a written summary rather than the recording. Which statement correctly evaluates that proposal?
Correct answer: D - The summary itself can be unlawful use or disclosure of the intercepted contents.
A landlord hires a detective to observe a tenant in a patio enclosed by opaque privacy fencing and leased exclusively to the tenant. Knowing that neither has a right to conduct this observation, the detective flies a drone above the patio to watch the tenant there without consent. The detective argues that only the aircraft, not the operator, crossed the property boundary. How does Nebraska's device-based trespass provision apply?
Correct answer: B - Intentional drone surveillance of the secluded tenant falls within the device-trespass provision.
A 36-year-old private detective, who is not a prohibited person and holds a valid Nebraska concealed handgun permit, drives into a school parking area open to the public. She has a concealed handgun in the vehicle and must get out to attend a scheduled interview. She is not a peace officer or authorized school security officer. To use Nebraska's concealed-handgun parking exception, what must she do before exiting?
Correct answer: D - Lock the handgun inside the vehicle's glove box before she gets out.
A felony theft has actually occurred. Although a private detective did not witness it, authenticated video and corroborating records give him reasonable grounds to identify the offender. A colleague says that, because the detective is not a peace officer, he must obtain a warrant before any arrest. Considering only Nebraska's private-person arrest statute, is that statement correct?
Correct answer: C - No; an actual felony and reasonable grounds to believe this person committed it supply the statutory authority.
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