11-452. Neutral safe exchange locations; parenting time; designation; immunity
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A. Each county sheriff shall maintain on the office's public website a list of the neutral safe exchange locations within their county for the purposes of exchanging children pursuant to a parenting plan under section 25-403.10.
B. Any sheriff's office may designate two or more parking spots at the sheriff's office or any sheriff's office substation as a neutral safe exchange location for the purposes of exchanging children. Any police department of a city or town may designate two or more parking spots at the police department or any police department substation as a neutral safe exchange location.
C. Each parking lot that is designated as a neutral safe exchange location shall have a purple light or a sign clearly identifying the area as a neutral safe exchange location. The neutral safe exchange location shall meet all of the following:
1. Provide accessibility twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.
2. Have adequate lighting and an external video surveillance system that records continuously twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week and that has the ability to retain videos for forty-five days.
3. Have at least one camera that is fixed in or near the designated neutral safe exchange location, that captures images that clearly and accurately display the time and date and that has the ability to store images for forty-five days.
D. Counties, cities, towns, sheriffs, law enforcement officers and employees of the designated neutral safe exchange location are not liable for civil damages for any act or omission relating to an incident arising out of the exchange of a child at a neutral safe exchange location.