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AB150

AB150: Protecting Tribal Judicial Personnel and Updating Safety Laws

Last scannedAug 22, 2026, 1:27 AM

In one sentence

This law adds tribal judicial personnel to existing protections against threats, increases penalties for assaulting them or other protected staff, and allows them to keep their home addresses private on public records.

What it does

  • Makes it a crime to threaten or intimidate any judicial personnel of an Indian tribe with the intent to make them act contrary to their duties.
  • Expands enhanced penalty rules for assault and battery without a deadly weapon to include tribal judicial personnel, public defenders, and certain court staff.
  • Allows tribal judicial personnel to get a court order that keeps their personal information confidential in records held by county recorders, assessors, or elections officials.
  • Lets tribal judicial personnel ask the Department of Motor Vehicles to show an alternate address instead of their home address on driver's licenses and ID cards.

Who it affects

  • Judicial personnel of Indian tribes
  • Public defenders and certain court employees who already had enhanced protections
  • People who threaten, assault, or batter these protected workers
  • County recorders, assessors, elections officials, and the Department of Motor Vehicles

Limits and unknowns

  • The exact list of who counts as 'judicial personnel' depends on federal law definitions not fully written out here.
  • Enhanced penalties for assault and battery only apply if the attacker knew or should have known the victim was a protected officer.

Plain language

Terms to know

Judicial personnel of an Indian tribe
Workers who serve in a court or legal role for an Indian tribe as defined by federal law.
Enhanced penalties
Stricter punishments, such as higher felony levels, given when the victim is a protected worker like an officer, judge, or tribal judicial personnel.
Confidential manner
Keeping personal information hidden from public view so it cannot be easily found by others in official records.

Official record

Sources

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Official summary

Revises provisions relating to the criminal justice system. (BDR 15-157)