Identity Theft
Senator Lathrop has worked to provide additional protections for consumers from the threat of identity theft through the introduction and passage of three separate bills.
LB 221 amended state law to restrict birth date information for children in certain court documents.
LB 674 strengthened identity theft law by prohibiting employers from using certain variations of an employee’s social security number and by adopting the Credit Report Protection Act. Under the Act, individuals are now allowed to place a security freeze on their credit reports.
In a follow-up bill to LB 674, LB 177 was introduced and passed to amend the security freeze law by removing the seven year sunset provision for credit freezes and reducing the cost to place a credit freeze from $15 to $3.
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