
(AP) — Lancaster County Attorney Joe Kelly is planning to seek re-election in 2014.
The top prosecutor in Lincoln formally announced his bid on Tuesday outside the county courthouse.
Kelly was elected to his first term in 2010, after a decade as chief deputy county attorney. He has served as a prosecutor for 28 years, handling homicide, robbery and sexual assault cases and others involving abuse of vulnerable adults.
Kelly says he wants to continue prosecuting people who use computers to entice children. He also points to a new program that lets veterans stay out of the courts if their offense was non-violent and they are suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder.
The Lancaster County attorney’s office filed more than 1,400 felony and 5,500 misdemeanor criminal charges last year.