LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Roman Catholic bishop who was convicted in Missouri of not reporting suspected child abuse has become chaplain at a convent in Nebraska.

Bishop Emeritus Robert Finn is spiritual adviser to the nuns at the School Sisters of Christ the King convent in Lincoln.

Finn was found guilty in 2012 of one misdemeanor count of failure to report suspected abuse and was given two years’ probation, making him the highest-ranking church official in the U.S. to be convicted of taking no action over abuse allegations.

Lincoln Diocese spokesman J.D. Flynn said Friday the 62-year-old Finn resigned as bishop for the Kansas City-St. Joseph Diocese in Missouri but retains the religious title of bishop emeritus.

Finn succeeds Monsignor Myron Pleskac, who died Jan. 2.

VALENTINE, Neb. (AP) — A Valentine woman convicted of stealing from Cherry County while an employee has been given two years in prison.

Forty-five-year-old Monica Bristow was sentenced Friday morning. She’d been the deputy county clerk.

Bristow was told to pay restitution of just over $20,000.

A state audit performed after Bristow’s arrest shows almost $199,000 in Cherry County funds is unaccounted for. Auditors found more than 1,000 credit card transactions totaling $83,000 that appeared to be for the personal use of Bristow when she worked as deputy county clerk. Auditors also found discrepancies in claim procedures, payroll issues and county expenditures.

She was arrested in July.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A bill that would allow Nebraska jails and prisons to charge a copayment for inmates is facing resistance in the Legislature.

Nebraska lawmakers debated the proposal on Friday but adjourned for the week without a vote. Sen. Tyson Larson of O’Neill says he introduced the measure after talking with a county sheriff in his district who complained about inmates abusing the system to get time away from jail.

His proposal would allow for copayments of up to $10 for every self-initiated, non-emergency visit to a health care provider. Exceptions would include treatment for mental health, preexisting conditions and chronic illnesses.

Opponents say it could discourage inmates from seeking medical help when needed.

At least 38 states and the federal government allow copayment charges for inmates.

Sen. Heath Mello of Omaha introduced legislation Friday that would require law enforcement agencies to save body-worn camera recordings for at least six months, unless they become part of a criminal investigation. Those recordings would join medical records and trade secrets as records which may be kept from public disclosure.

The measure would prohibit tampering with the records or releasing them without specific agency permission.

The bill also outlines a timeline for agencies using body-worn cameras to adopt training polices and report those to Nebraska Commission on Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice.

Sen. Al Davis of Hyannis introduced a bill Friday that would require monthly reports from abortion providers about how they disposed of each aborted fetus.

The measure would require the Department of Health and Human Services to adopt rules ensuring abortion-authorized facilities dispose of remains by burial, cremation, or hospital-type incineration. If an individual or organization is found selling fetal tissue for profit, a court could ban their abortion services.

Planned Parenthood is the only abortion clinic in Lincoln and one of two in Omaha. The other is operated by Dr. Leroy Carhart in Bellevue.

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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A district judge has told the Nebraska Judicial Branch to release documents on how judges are trained to handle child custody disputes.

A Lincoln doctor requested the records in May. Dr. Les Veskrna is executive director of the Children’s Rights Council of Iowa and Nebraska, and he says he has concerns that the information used to train judges.

The Nebraska court administrator denied Veskrna’s request, saying the records weren’t subject to disclosure under state public records law.

Veskrna sued for the release of the documents, and earlier this month the judge ruled that most of the documents are public records and must be released.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska lawmaker has renewed his quest to ban mountain lion hunting just one day after a committee rejected his latest effort.

Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha introduced a bill Thursday to eliminate the state’s mountain lion hunting season.

The Legislature’s Natural Resources Committee voted Tuesday to indefinitely postpone an identical bill that Chambers introduced last year. The new bill is likely to be reviewed by the same committee.

Chambers is a well-known animal welfare advocate who passed legislation in 2014 to strengthen the state’s animal cruelty laws.

Supporters of the hunting season say it’s necessary to help regulate the population and to ensure that mountain lion kills are tracked, rather than hidden.