As part of our initiative called Curious Cornhuskers, an anonymous reader asked The Daily Nebraskan, âHow do people get away with public intoxication near campus? Does UNLPD have an agreement with UNL?â Marty Fehringer, assistant chief of police of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Police Department, said there is no law against public intoxication. Nebraska decriminalized public intoxication in 1979. The protocol for public intoxication is if an intoxicated person is a danger to themselves, then UNLPD officers can take them to a detox center, like The Bridge Behavioral Health, according to Fehringer. He said this decriminalizes what could be an alcohol problem.