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daily nebraskan
Wednesday, january 14, 1981
DeCamp's bill would stiffen shoplifting statutes
By Patti Gallagher
Anti-shoplifting legislation was intro
duced Tuesday in the Legislature by Neligh
Sen. Joh DeCamp who said the National
Coalition to Prevent Shoplifting has shown
"shoplifting is America's and Nebraska's
most expensive crime."
Figures issued by the coalition show
that $16.84 billion was lost nationally be
cause of shoplifting and $108 million in
Nebraska, in 1979, when the latest figures
were compiled.
DeCamp, who was recently re-elected
chairman of the Legislature's Banking,
Commerce and Insurance committee, said
that the shoplifting problem is causing an
increase in inflation. He said that between
5 and 7 percent is added to retail prices be
cause of shiplifting.
"An average family of four in Nebraska
is paying over $250 a year for the cost of
shoplifting," DeCamp said. "Further, this
doesn't take into account losses due to ex
pensive retail store security systems, losses
for prosecuting and punishing shoplifters
and sales tax revenues to state and local
governments because an item was stolen,
not bought."
The legislation, if approved, would do
the following:
-Specify what acts constitute shoplift
ing, including taking possession of
merchandise of any retail establishment
and altering or changing price tags of re
tailer's merchandise.
-Stiffen the penalities lor the offense
of shoplifting by providing for mandatory
fines of sentencing for repeat offenders.
DeCamp suggests making shoplifting a
felony if the retail price of the merchan
dise stolen exceeds $100.
-Provide that photographs of the evi
dence may be used in court.
Make it clear that a sentencing judge
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may allow for a sentence to be served on
weekends or non-working hours of the
defendant.
According to DeCamp, the bill is "must
legislation for consumers who ultimately
end up paying for shoplifting losses."
TJNL offers $102,000 loan
compromise to government
By Betsy Miller
UNL has offered to pay the federal
government $102,000 as a compromise to
the $200,000 to $500,000 officials have re
quested to avoid losing one source of stu
dent loan funds.
Ronald Wright, vice-chancelloi toi bus
iness and finance, said UNL is offering the
money to help end a controversy that has
existed for several years. The problem
arose when a "disgruntled employee" at
UNL informed the federal government that
UNL had not used investment income from
the National Direct Student Loan fund
properly, according to Wright.
Wright said that many other universities.
Unpaid ticket will
cause locked car
UNL Campus Police have compiled a list
of more than 3,000 students who failed to
pay parking tickets last semester, Police
Director Gail Gade said.
Gade said officers will look for cars on
university property and will impound them
with wheel locks when found.
The police recommend paying past tic
kets in person. If payments are lost or de
layed by mail delivery, students' cars may
be wheel-locked anyway.
including Michigan, Minnesota and Illinois,
have used NDSL fund money the same way
as UNL He said that UNL used the same
process for several years. However, new
government officials have taken over since
that time and may have different ideas ot
how the process should take place, he said.
Wright said confusion arises because ot
different intrepretations of administrative
law. He said UNL has been audited by the
government annually and was never before
informed it wasn't using NDSL funds pro
perly. According to Don Aripoli, UNL director
of scholarships and financial aid, NDSL
gives UNL about $650,000 a year, but
that UNL loans out about $2 million
through the program.
UNL has submitted its offer to pay
$102,000 and is currently waiting to hear
from the government. Wright said that
UNL derived the offered total by applying
the NDSL loan rules the way UNL officials
feel they should be applied. However, be
cause of complicated administrative laws,
the government may figure the university
owes more.
If the government rules that UNL must
pay more, Wright said there are a series of
court appeal processes UNL could use to
delay the end of funding.
However, Wright said he thought a
compromise would be reached.
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