Disclosure of Confidential Financial Records
Nebraska Financial Records Disclosure Law
Financial · Government records
This law protects customer financial records by providing that covered institutions cannot be required to disclose records they deem confidential except in listed situations, such as a court subpoena, summons, warrant, or order, a supervisory regulator's examination, an agency subpoena, a statutory requirement, discovery rules, or a law enforcement request where the institution is a crime victim. Requesters generally pay the actual cost of producing records.
- Where
- Nebraska
- Citation
- Neb. Rev. Stat. 8-1401 to 8-1402
- Status
- In force
- Enforced by
- Courts (governs compelled disclosure)
- People can sue
- No
- Penalties
- No penalty; the law limits when an institution can be compelled to disclose confidential records and requires requesters to pay actual costs in most cases (8-1402).
- Applies to
- Banks, credit unions, trust companies, and other corporations organized under Nebraska law, authorized to do business in Nebraska, or organized under federal law, as to confidential records concerning themselves or persons they do business with (8-1401(1))
- Persons, parties, and agencies requesting such records (8-1402)
Other duties
- An institution is not required to disclose confidential financial or other records about itself or its customers unless a listed exception applies, such as a court-issued subpoena, summons, warrant, or order, regulator examination, agency subpoena, tax commissioner demand, statute, or discovery rule.Neb. Rev. Stat. 8-1401(1)
- Requesters must pay the actual search, processing, reproduction, and transport costs of producing records, except for certain law enforcement and regulator requests; institutions may wait for cost assurances before producing.Neb. Rev. Stat. 8-1402
Sources
- Official text
- Neb. Rev. Stat. 8-1401 (Nebraska Legislature)
- Neb. Rev. Stat. 8-1402 (Nebraska Legislature)
Checked against these sources on 2026-09-25 by research agent (Claude), primary sources.
Unverified: Effective and amendment dates not checked (originally Laws 1979, LB 216). The remainder of 8-1401 after subsection (1)(j), including its immunity clause, was not read.
Research reference, not legal advice.