NevadaNevada schools with police must publish yearly force reports
Nevada districts with school police and charter schools contracting for them must post annual reports about certain uses of force, starting with 2025–2026 incidents.
What it does
Districts with school police and charter schools that contract for them must post annual reports on force involving batons, chemicals such as pepper spray, and stun devices. Reporting starts with 2025–2026 incidents.
Argument forPublic reports could help families see which groups face force involving batons, chemicals, or stun devices and where incidents happen.
Argument againstPreparing yearly incident details and demographic totals could take school staff time while requiring care to protect people's identities.
More detail
School district boards and charter school governing bodies must publish reports on their websites about school police use of specified types of force. The duty covers districts that employ school police and charter schools that contract with their local school district for school police services. Reports must count incidents involving batons, chemicals such as pepper spray, and electric stun devices. They must describe locations and whether incidents happened during the school day or at school-sponsored activities. Reports must include affected people's demographic information, including age, race, gender, and ethnicity. All information must be grouped into totals and must not identify individuals. Only districts employing more than 75 school police officers must report each involved officer's rank and years employed. The law took effect July 1, 2025. Each report is due on or before the first day of the school year and covers the preceding school year. The first report covers 2025–2026 and is due on or before the first day of 2026–2027.
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
- Became Law
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History
- 2025
- Jun 6Chapter 319.Latest
- Jun 5Approved by the Governor Joe Lombardo.Became Law
- May 29Enrolled and delivered to Governor.To Governor
- May 26Senate Amendment No. 616 concurred in. To enrollment.Major
- May 22In Assembly.
- May 21Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved. (Yeas: 15, Nays: 6.) To Assembly.Passed Senate
- Vote recorded Senate (2nd Reprint). Result: pass.Upper
- May 20From printer. To re-engrossment. Re-engrossed. Second reprint. Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
- May 19From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 616.) To printer.Minor
- Apr 29Read first time. Referred to Committee on Education. To committee.Minor
- Apr 28In Senate.
- Apr 25From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. To Senate.
- Apr 22Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 36, Nays: 6.) To printer.Passed Assembly
- Vote recorded Assembly (1st Reprint). Result: pass.Lower
- Apr 21From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 294.) Dispensed with reprinting.Minor
- Mar 14From printer. To committee.
- Mar 13Read first time. Referred to Committee on Education. To printer.Introduced
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