Checking a guard or a security company in Nebraska

This page is for whoever is doing the checking — a client, a property manager, a company vetting a subcontractor. It tells you what a guard and a guard company are supposed to hold in Nebraska, and walks you to the regulator’s own records to confirm it.

tessura is not a Nebraska agency and issues nothing. Every link below goes to the regulator, and the regulator’s answer is the one that counts.

Getting licensed yourself instead? The Nebraska requirements, training hours, and application steps →

Check the guard

Nebraska has no statewide guard licence, so what a guard needs depends on the city or county.

How to check it

Know that Nebraska issues no state guard licence, so "state licensed" is not a claim that can be true of an individual guard here.
Watch for the specific false positive: a firm can accurately say it holds "a Nebraska Secretary of State licence" and mean a Private Detective or Private Detective Agency licence, which says nothing about guard work or guard training. Ask which licence, by name.
Ask the provider in writing which credential each guard on your site actually holds and which city or county issued it, then verify with that local licensing office.
Ask for the company’s own evidence instead, since that is what exists here: a current certificate of liability insurance, a written background-check policy, and firearms qualification records for any armed post.
For an armed post, remember a Nebraska concealed handgun permit is a firearms permit, not a security credential, and does not establish that the person is trained as a guard.

Why there is no link to click

No Nebraska agency licenses or registers individual security guards, so there is no state record to search. The Secretary of State’s Licensing Division administers only the Private Detective Licensing Act (Neb. Rev. Stat. 71-3201 to 71-3213), covering private detectives, detective agencies and plain clothes investigators. Guard regulation, where it exists at all, is municipal. LB 1043 proposed state guard licensing in 2008 and never became law.

Nebraska Secretary of State, Licensing Division, (402) 471-8606, sos.licensing@nebraska.gov — for confirming what a claimed private detective licence actually covers.

Check the company

Nebraska does not license security companies at the state level, so there is no company licence to check. That is a fact about the state, not a mark against any firm.

Nebraska has no state licence for guard companies. The Secretary of State runs ten licensing programmes and guarding is not among them; the closest is the private detective agency licence, whose roster is published but covers investigators rather than guards.

With no licence to check, lean harder on the things that do exist: the guard credentials above, insurance, workers’ compensation, and a business registration in good standing with the Nebraska Secretary of State.

Ask for insurance properly

A licence says the state let them operate. Insurance is what stands between you and a claim, and it is the easier of the two to fake — a certificate is only true on the day it was printed.

A certificate of insurance (COI) that names your business as an additional insured, not just the certificate holderCertificate holder means you were mailed a copy. Additional insured means their policy actually answers for you if you are pulled into a claim.

General liability, and workers’ compensation at your state’s statutory limitsIf a guard is hurt on your property and the company carries no workers’ comp, the claim tends to land on you. Ask for commercial auto too if they run patrol vehicles.

The policy number and the effective and expiry dates, on a certificate dated within the last monthAn undated or months-old certificate is the single most common tell. The dates let you ask the insurer about the right policy.

The name, agency, and direct phone number of the broker who issued it — then call themThe broker can confirm the policy is in force today. The certificate PDF cannot, and a forged or stale one looks identical to a real one.

A contract term requiring written notice to you before the policy is cancelled or non-renewedStandard certificates promise notice to the insured, not to you. Putting the duty on the company in the contract is what makes a mid-term cancellation a breach.

A fresh certificate part-way through the term, not only at signingRe-asking at 60 or 90 days costs you an email and defeats the whole get-the-COI-then-drop-it pattern.

tessura does not verify anyone’s insurance and has no access to insurers’ records. This is guidance for doing it yourself, not a statement about any company on this site. It is also not legal advice — for a contract of any size, have your own counsel or broker set the limits.

Where this comes from

Nebraska requirements last reviewed August 28, 2026. Some details on this state are still pending a second check against the primary source. Rules change — the regulator’s page is authoritative if it disagrees with ours.

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