Miscellaneous

Scotts Bluff County’s Veterans Service Office in the Administration Building in Gering, under Veterans Service Officer Matthew Meyers, files VA claims and health care applications, books the Thursday DAV vans to the Hot Springs and Cheyenne VA medical centres, and also serves Banner and Kimball Counties; it moved to shorter Friday hours from October 23, 2026.

Any veteran or dependent in Scotts Bluff, Banner or Kimball County. Claims help, VA health care applications and DAV van rides need no rating; the rating filter never hides this entry.

When a Scotts Bluff County veteran misses the filing window for the State’s new disabled veteran motor vehicle tax and fee exemption, the Treasurer brings a waiver to the Board of Commissioners; the Board approved nine veterans’ exemptions and waivers between April 20 and July 20, 2026, one on the Veterans Service Officer’s recommendation.

A veteran who qualifies for the State vehicle exemption and missed the window. The State exemption reaches any veteran with a service-connected rating under 5 U.S.C. 2108, including 0 percent, or VA-recognized blindness; the Board decides each waiver. The rating filter cannot test the filing history.

The Screven County Board of Commissioners - Chairman Will Boyd (District 4), Vice-Chairman J.C. Warren (District 5), District 1 Edwin Lovett, District 2 Rosa Romeo, District 3 Mike Dixon, District 6 Justin Smith and District 7 Ben Thompson, with County Manager Lori Burke and County Attorney Aaron Meyer at 216 Mims Road, Sylvania (912-564-7535), meeting on the second and fourth Tuesday of every month at 9 a.m. in the Commissioners' Conference Room in the Screven County Courthouse - whose 63 posted 2025-2026 meeting documents (46 of them image scans, converted and read by OCR) were read whole: the January 14, 2025 minutes' HB 581 discussion and 3-hearing schedule (Thompson's motion, Warren's second, unanimous), the February 11, 2025 minutes' extension report and public comments, and the June 9, 2026 minutes' "Attorney Aaron Meyer explained LHOST"; the board's final opt-out decision is not recorded in the files the county's own site posts (the gap goes to docs/COUNTY-REVISIT.md); American Legion Post 116 and VFW Post 7116 Ellis E. Williams Post sit in Sylvania.

No eligibility - a board record. The record documents the board’s 2025-2026 minutes and the county’s organizations; it grants no individual entitlement.

The Screven County Clerk of Court - Mandy B. Howard, first elected 2021, 216 Mims Road, P.O. Box 156, Sylvania, GA 30467 (912-564-2614, fax 912-564-2622, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday to Friday) - is the county's recorder of military discharges under O.C.G.A. 15-6-72 and 15-6-78; the State's own Clerks Authority directory seats the office and its staff - Chief Deputy Debra W. Kelly, with Lee H. Thompson or Alecia M. Deal (Real Estate), Alexis Austin (State Court Criminal) and the other rows - but prints no services list and no discharge line, so the free recording and the 50-year closure rest on the State entries.

Any veteran with a discharge. The recording is free under O.C.G.A. 15-6-78 and the record is closed for fifty years under 15-6-72. No rating is needed.

The Screven County Tax Commissioner - Andrea Waits, Main Office 216 Mims Road #103, Sylvania, GA 30467 (912-564-2206, fax 912-564-7621, Monday to Friday 8:00 a.m. to 4:45 p.m., with title processing by 4:30 p.m., tax.screvencountypay.com) - takes the applications, and the Tax Commissioner's own site prints the office's hours and routes with no Disabled Veterans row - the county's own veteran amounts rest on the State entries, and the Tax Assessors' qPublic site was not read (the gap goes to docs/COUNTY-REVISIT.md).

Qualifying disabled veteran or surviving spouse who owns and occupies the home. The exemption follows O.C.G.A. 48-5-48 and 48-5-52.1; the county’s own page prints no veteran row, so the amounts are the State’s. The rating filter never hides this entry.

The Scurry County Clerk (Melody Appleton, 1806 25th Street, Suite 300, Snyder, 325-573-9316) posts no military-discharge line on its January 2024 fee list, which charges $5 plus $1 a page for other certified copies; the free DD-214 filing (Local Government Code 192.002), the free certified copy (Government Code 603.003) and the confidentiality (552.140) are the State’s.

Any veteran with a discharge. Recording a discharge and a certified copy are free under the State statutes; copies go only to the people Government Code 552.140 lists. No rating is needed.

The Scurry County Commissioners Court (County Judge Dan Hicks) took up no veterans item in the 39 minutes of August 2025 to October 2026 and adopted a 2027 budget with no veterans office; its November 3, 2026 agenda carries "designating veterans parking at the courthouse", whose outcome is not yet posted. No benefit was adopted, narrowed or repealed.

No eligibility - a board record. The record documents the county’s veterans-services administration; it grants no individual entitlement.

Sebastian County runs a court-supervised veterans treatment program for felony defendants who qualify for VA benefits and are approved by their attorney, the Prosecuting Attorney and the presiding Judge; Becky Tabor administers it from the Fort Smith courts building, 479-784-1507.

Felony defendant who qualifies for VA benefits. Eligibility is a felony charge in Sebastian County, qualification for VA benefits, and approval by the defence attorney, the Prosecuting Attorney and the presiding Judge.

The Second Judicial Circuit's veterans treatment court, which its 2026 plan calls the Veterans Diversion Program, takes veterans and service members who live in any of the circuit's six counties and have a substance use or mental health disorder into a pre-adjudication program of at least 14 months, sitting Tuesdays at 3:00 p.m. in the Craighead County Courthouse in Jonesboro.

Veteran or service member charged with a crime who lives in the Second Circuit. Residence in one of the six counties, a substance use or mental health disorder, a high-risk and high-need assessment and clinical acceptance; no disability rating is needed.

The Second Judicial Circuit Solicitor runs a Veterans Treatment Court in Aiken County for non-violent offenders who served in the armed forces, with substance use or mental health treatment, education, jobs and referrals under judicial supervision; apply to the coordinator at 1930 University Parkway, Suite 1500, Aiken, (803) 648-8637 ext. 1380, [email protected]. A $104,000 State veterans' affairs grant funds it.

A veteran charged with a non-violent offence. For a veteran charged in the Second Circuit whom the Solicitor accepts. A disability rating is not the test.

Gadsden County has no veterans treatment court; the Second Judicial Circuit's only one is the Leon County Veterans Treatment Court in Tallahassee, and a Gadsden County defendant can ask to move the case there under section 910.035(5) on the circuit's agreed transfer order. Its stated criteria - an honorable or general discharge and a documented military-related diagnosis - are narrower than the statute.

Justice-involved veteran or servicemember. For a veteran or servicemember charged in Gadsden County with a service-related mental health or substance use condition whom the Leon County court accepts. A disability rating is not the test.

The Second Judicial Circuit's only veterans treatment court is Leon County's, set up for Leon County cases by Administrative Order 2015-07; a veteran charged in Wakulla County who qualifies for a veterans court can ask, under section 910.035(5), to have the case transferred to a county that has one and agrees to take it.

Justice-involved veteran or service member. For a veteran or service member with a criminal case in Wakulla County who qualifies for a veterans treatment court and whose transfer both courts accept. A disability rating is not the test.

Washoe County's Second Judicial District Court has run a Veterans Treatment Court since 2009 for veterans, Guard members and active-duty members with service-related mental illness, substance use, PTSD or military sexual trauma. It takes misdemeanours from the lower courts and felonies, for a 12-month programme at no charge, and says it targets non-violent defendants.

Veteran, Guard or active-duty member with a service-related condition. A referral and a service-related mental health or substance use problem; only a dishonorable discharge is a statutory bar. No rating is needed.

The Second Judicial District’s veterans treatment court, held at the Sarpy County Courthouse in Papillion, serves the district’s two counties, Sarpy and Cass, on the Nebraska Supreme Court’s problem-solving court model; the state lists coordinator Heather Moran.

Veteran with a criminal case in Sarpy or Cass County. The Second Judicial District’s court serves both counties of the district through the problem-solving court team; the coordinator is the state’s listed contact.

A voluntary five-phase, eighteen-month alternative to incarceration for Sedgwick County veterans with felony charges or probation violations, run from the Sedgwick County Courthouse with VA Veterans Justice Outreach support and volunteer veteran mentors.

Veteran charged with a felony or in violation of probation. Eligibility requires service in the armed forces, Sedgwick County residence, a discharge under conditions other than dishonorable, a felony charge or probation violation, VA healthcare eligibility, and agreement to up to eighteen months of probation and to a mentor.

Seminole County Veterans Services in Sanford, staffed by service officers certified by the Florida Department of Veterans' Affairs, helps veterans, dependents and survivors with VA claims, survivor benefits, health care, education, pension and burial allowances, with walk-in hours and monthly walk-in sessions at VFW posts in Oviedo and Winter Springs. Call 407-665-2347.

Veterans and families. Seminole County veterans, dependents and survivors. No rating is needed.

The Eighteenth Judicial Circuit's Seminole County Veterans Treatment Court, begun in 2012, diverts most non-violent misdemeanors and third-degree felonies, DUI included, into treatment with a veteran mentor; completion ends in the charges being dropped. Its rules require that the veteran be eligible for VA services and bar drug sale charges and violent priors, tests the statute does not set.

Veteran eligible for VA services with an eligible charge. Military service, eligibility for VA services and a non-violent misdemeanor or third-degree felony; drug sale charges and violent priors are excluded. No rating is needed.

The Seneca County Board of Commissioners (Anthony Paradiso, Bill Frankart, Brent Busdeker; County Administrator Barb Patterson) carried the veterans year in the October 2, 2025 budget hearing for Veterans Services and the October 6, 2026 Veteran's Commission appointment, with the Commission's own dollars-and-routes accounts in the county's post-meeting releases; no benefit was adopted, narrowed or repealed.

No eligibility - a board record. The record documents the county’s veterans-services administration; it grants no individual entitlement.

The Sequoyah County Clerk (Julie Haywood, 120 E. Chickasaw, Sallisaw, 918-775-4516) serves as the county recorder and names "military discharge records" among the documents her office receives, records and preserves indefinitely; Oklahoma law makes the recording free and keeps the record confidential.

Any veteran with a discharge. The Clerk records military discharge records; no rating is needed.

The 2026 Directory of South Carolina Diversion Programs and Treatment Courts lists a Veterans Court for the Seventh Circuit - Spartanburg County - under the Circuit Solicitor: a treatment court whose successful completion dismisses the charges, with an average duration of 12 to 18 months; questions go to the circuit’s director of diversion programs, Cindy Cassady, 864-596-2630.

Justice-involved veteran. The Veterans Court serves justice-involved veterans; entry is by solicitor discretion and a rating is not the stated test.

Stearns County's Veteran Services points veterans charged in court with a mental health or substance-related offence to the Seventh Judicial District's Veterans Protocol, a treatment-focused alternative court process for veterans whose military experiences may have contributed to their legal problems.

Justice-involved veteran. For a veteran charged with a mental health or substance-related offence whose military experience may have contributed. A disability rating is not the test.

Most months Seward County’s Veterans Service Officer introduces a Veteran of the Month at a Board of Commissioners meeting, often nominated by a VFW post, and the minutes record the veteran’s service: nine veterans were honoured between September 2025 and August 2026, from a Vietnam Marine to a Guard soldier with three Afghanistan deployments.

Any Seward County veteran, often nominated by a veterans post. Recognition only; no rating or discharge test is stated.

Seward County takes county veterans aid applications under section 80-102 through its Veterans Service Office, but its Soldiers/Sailors Relief fund has paid no aid since at least 2023: it holds $5,052.26, the county levies nothing for it, and the Board cut the office’s 2026-2027 request of $10,052.26 back to the $5,052.26 already in the fund.

Veteran, spouse, surviving spouse or minor child in need. Section 80-102 as amended in 2024: honorable or general service, a year in Nebraska and six months in Seward County, and need the committee assesses. No rating is required.

Seward County’s Veterans Service Office in the West Wing at 320 S. 14th Street in Seward, under Veterans Service Officer Ray Foreman, files VA disability, pension, survivor, health care, home loan, education and burial claims and takes applications for both the State’s and the county’s veterans aid; the Clerk records a DD-214 free.

Any Seward County veteran, widow or dependent. Claims help and DD-214 recording need no rating; the rating filter never hides this entry.

The Shackelford County Commissioners Court (County Judge John Viertel) worked its 2026-2027 budget in workshops from July 20 to August 17, 2026; the proposed budget has no veterans department, and none of the 26 agendas and notices of January to November 2026 names a veterans item. The county posts no minutes and no adopted budget for 2026-2027. No benefit is known to have been adopted, narrowed or repealed.

No eligibility - a board record. The record documents the county’s veterans-services administration; it grants no individual entitlement.

The Shackelford County and District Clerk (Cheri Hawkins, first floor of the courthouse, Albany; P.O. Box 2109; 325-762-9415) lists "Military Discharge (DD214)" filing (Local Government Code 192.002(b)) and certified copy (Government Code 603.003(a)) at "No Charge" on its fee schedule effective January 1, 2024; the confidentiality (Government Code 552.140) is the State's.

Any veteran with a discharge. Recording a discharge and a certified copy are free under the State statutes; copies go only to the people Government Code 552.140 lists. No rating is needed.

Shasta County's Veterans Services Office helps veterans and families prepare, file and follow up VA and CalVet claims, including appeals, discharge upgrades and the College Fee Waiver, from 1855 Shasta Street in Redding, weekdays 8:30 to 11:30 and 1 to 4. Call 530-225-5616.

Veterans and families. Any veteran, dependent or survivor can use the office. No rating is needed.

Shawnee County’s court takes veterans on three tracks, diversion, post-imprisonment supervision or probation violator, with offense exclusions and risk-score gates set out on the district court’s own page, plus a Kansas Fights Addiction-funded lane for veterans who cannot use VA health care.

Veteran with a clinical, mental health or TBI need. All tracks require service in the armed forces, VA-benefits eligibility, Shawnee County residence, and a clinical, mental health or traumatic brain injury need determined by a verified assessment.

Sheboygan County’s CVSO office sits in Sheboygan Falls with Tuesday-afternoon and Friday-morning hours, serves about 6,505 veteran clients a year, claims over $52 million of federal benefits annually, and publishes a veterans memorial engraving program.

Any veteran or family member. The office assists Sheboygan County veterans and their families with claims and county aid. No rating is required, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.

The Sheboygan Area Veterans Treatment Court, opened August 2012, hears cases from seven counties including Sheboygan, Winnebago, Washington, Ozaukee and Manitowoc, with all discharges but dishonorable eligible and a published policy manual.

Veteran defendant, discharge other than dishonorable. The Sheboygan Area Veterans Treatment Court admits veteran defendants the court finds suitable from its seven served counties, discharges other than dishonorable eligible; there is no right to participation.

The Shelby County Clerk (Tony Harover, 501 Main Street, Shelbyville) records military discharges under KRS 422.090 - the county clerk records a resident's discharge without charge, keeps the recorded papers out of public disclosure (the index of names stays public), lists who may get a copy, and lets the veteran have every copy destroyed; the clerk's recorded series indexes military discharges among the records the office carries, with images for various document types back to 1980.

Any veteran with a discharge to record. Recording is free and the record is confidential under KRS 422.090; the veteran may later have every copy destroyed. The rating filter never hides this entry.

The Shelby County Clerk (Jennifer Fountain, 124 Austin St., Center, 936-598-6361) posts no fee schedule and no military-discharge information; the free DD-214 filing (Local Government Code 192.002), the free certified copy (Government Code 603.003) and the confidentiality (552.140) are the State’s.

Any veteran with a discharge. Recording a discharge and a certified copy are free under the State statutes; copies go only to the people Government Code 552.140 lists. No rating is needed.

The Shelby County Commissioners Court (County Judge Allison Harbison) put no item naming veterans on its 64 agendas and notices of September 2025 to October 2026; its FY2027 budget, adopted by every member, raises the Veterans Officer’s department to $51,477, and no benefit was adopted, narrowed or repealed.

No eligibility - a board record. The record documents the county’s veterans-services administration; it grants no individual entitlement.

The Shelby County Fiscal Court - Judge/Executive Dan Ison (in office since his 2016 appointment, now in his second elected term) with magistrates Jon Swindler, Karen Waller, Joey Riddle, Bill Hedges, Gene Witt, Brock Lisby and Danny Eades, meeting the first Tuesday at 6:00 p.m. and the third Tuesday at 10:00 a.m. at the Courthouse, 501 Main Street, Shelbyville - carried no veteran item in its forty-four window agendas (January 2025 through October 2026): the county's veteran record sits with its community, not with the court's paper.

No eligibility - a board record. The record documents the Fiscal Court’s window as read; it grants no individual entitlement.

Shelby County Government runs a free veterans service office in Memphis, with satellite hours in Arlington, Bartlett, Collierville and Millington. Its officers prepare and track VA compensation and pension claims and appeals, request DD-214s, and help with discharge upgrades and burial benefits. Call (901) 222-4237.

Any veteran, survivor or family member. The office helps veterans and their families and survivors with VA claims and records at no cost. No rating is needed.

The Shelby County Recorder (Jessica Pile, 25 W. Polk St., Room 101, Shelbyville, 317-392-6370, Monday to Thursday 7 to 5) keeps military discharges among the permanent records it records and certifies; Indiana records a discharge and gives copies free (IC 10-17-2, the State entry), though the office’s fee schedule prints no discharge line.

Veterans recording a discharge. Recording a discharge is free under State law; no rating is needed.

The Shelby County Recorder (Jodi Siegel, 129 E Court Street, 2nd Floor, Shelby County Annex, Sidney, 937-498-7270) answers its own FAQ "Does your office record Soldiers Discharge Records (DD214)?" with "Yes."; Ohio law makes the recording free and keeps the record out of public view.

Any veteran with a discharge. The Recorder records the DD-214; no rating is needed.

The Shelby County Recorder of Deeds, Audrey Buzzard, 100 East Main, P.O. Box 188, Shelbyville (573-633-2821), asks veterans to call the office about "Veteran Service Records"; RSMo 59.480 makes recording a discharge free and limits copies to the veteran or an authorized party.

Any veteran with a discharge. Recording and copies are free under the State statute; copies go only to the veteran or the people 59.480 names. No rating is needed.

Tennessee's first veterans treatment court, run by General Sessions Criminal Court Judge Christian Johnson in Division 15 at 201 Poplar. It takes veterans charged with misdemeanors or felonies whose substance use or mental health contributed to the arrest, and on successful completion the charges can be dismissed. Call (901) 222-3703.

A veteran charged with a crime, with treatment needs. The court takes veterans charged with misdemeanor or felony offenses whose substance dependency or serious mental health issues may be amenable to treatment. The District Attorney must approve. No rating or particular discharge is required by the court's published rules.

Shelby County has an active veterans court on the Alabama Administrative Office of Courts' 2026 map. Neither the court system nor the county publishes its eligibility rules online; ask a defence lawyer or the Shelby County Veterans Service Office.

Veteran with a criminal case in Shelby County. Eligibility is set by the court and is not published. No rating is needed.

Shelby County's wheel tax is $75 a year on a private car. A veteran rated one hundred percent permanent and total, or a former prisoner of war, is exempt under state law; claim it at the County Clerk. A lower-income resident with a disabled plate can get up to $75 back each year from the Trustee.

One hundred percent permanent and total, service-connected. Section 5-8-102 exempts a veteran with one hundred percent permanent total disability from a service-connected cause, as VA determines it. It is recorded rather than enforced because a former prisoner of war, and a veteran whose vehicle came with a VA adapted-vehicle grant under 38 U.S.C. 3901, are exempt at any rating.

The Sherburne County Recorder records a veteran's DD 214 free and gives the filer free certified copies; the record is private data under Minnesota Statutes 196.08, so anyone else must fill out a form showing tangible interest before a copy is released.

Any veteran with a discharge. Recording and the filer's certified copies are free.

The Sherburne County Sheriff's Office charges an honorably discharged veteran $50 for its permit to carry class ($20 deposit and $30 at the class) against $70 for other participants.

Honorably discharged veterans. The page gives the veteran rate to "Veterans who have been honorably discharged". No rating is needed.

The Sheridan County Board of County Commissioners (five members; Lonnie J. Wright chaired 2025 and Christi Haswell 2026, with Michael Arzy, Holly Jennings and Nick Siddle; County Clerk Eda Schunk Thompson) met Mondays and Tuesdays and carried the 2025-2026 veteran items: Assessor Paul Fall's veterans-exemption walk-throughs and his retirement, the fourth-Monday-of-May deadline reminders under Koko Knudtson, the Veterans Day courthouse closures, the September 11 moment of silence expanded to military heroes, the At Ease Horsemanship and CHAPS funding presentations, and the October 20, 2026 Public Health - VA memorandum; no benefit was adopted, narrowed or repealed.

No eligibility - a board record. The record documents the county’s veterans-exemption administration and observances; it grants no individual entitlement.

The Sheridan County Clerk and Recorder's page lists 'DD214s' among the documents the Recorder and Ex-Officio Register of Deeds division records; under W.S. 19-14-104 each Wyoming county clerk records the discharge 'without charge of any fee' and keeps it confidential - available only to the discharged person, an authorized agent, dependents, the veterans' service officer, the Wyoming veteran's affairs commission, a peace officer or by court order.

Any veteran with a discharge. Recording a DD-214 with the county clerk is free and confidential under W.S. 19-14-104. No rating is needed.

Sheridan County’s section 80-102 Veterans Aid Fund budgets small sums for medical, rent, fuel, provisions and burial aid and paid $393.70 in 2024-2025 and $2,000 in 2025-2026; transport grant money has lifted it to $53,610.66, and its page still asks for wartime service, a test the 2024 amendment removed.

Veteran, spouse, surviving spouse or minor child in need. Section 80-102 as amended in 2024: honorable or general service, a year in Nebraska and six months in Sheridan County, and need the committee assesses; the county page’s wartime test no longer applies. No rating is required.

Sheridan County’s Veterans Service Office drives veterans to medical appointments with part-time paid drivers, 67 trips in the six months to March 2026, and a federal grant the county books as HRVT has paid $42,641.68 into its veterans fund since September 2025; book through the office in Rushville.

Sheridan County veteran with a medical appointment. Rides are arranged through the Veterans Service Office; the county posts no further rule, and no rating is required.

Sheridan County’s Veterans Service Office in the Rushville courthouse annex, under Veterans Service Officer Jason Hotz, files VA and State claims (114 new claims in the year to March 2026), records DD-214s, places bronze grave flag holders and orders Presidential Memorial Certificates, and runs medical transports for veterans.

Any Sheridan County veteran or dependent. Claims help, DD-214 recording and grave flag holders need no rating; the rating filter never hides this entry.