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Article #192: Nevada Criminal Records For Resident Research

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The State of Nevada is one of the few state. The term is intended to be
states that allow the public access to equivalent to the phrase "criminal
their Nevada criminal records. The history record information" as used in
Records and Identification Bureau under federal regulations.
the Nevada Department of Public Safety is Nevada criminal records stored in local
the central repository of Nevada criminal databases contain pertinent personal
records. The purpose of the state information about a person. The
database of Nevada criminal records is to information you get from them includes
provide centralized, complete and the subject's identification data, such
documented criminal justice information as name, date of birth, social security
and statistics to the state's criminal number, sex, race, height, weight, et
justice community, the public, and many cetera. Also included in Nevada criminal
other authorized clients and records are arrest data, including the
contributors. Such information is then arresting agency, date of arrest, and
used in making informed public policy, charges filed.
criminal justice and regulatory decisions Nevada criminal records may also contain
concerning crime and criminal offenders. the final judicial disposition data
What Information is there in Nevada submitted by a court, prosecutor or other
Criminal Records? criminal justice agency and custodial
Pursuant to Nevada Revised Statutes (NRS) information if the offender was
179.070, Nevada criminal records are incarcerated in a Nevada correctional
defined as: facility.
"Record of criminal history" means Public Access to Nevada Criminal Records
information contained in records Nevada criminal records are available for
collected and maintained by agencies of public access. Any person may request a
criminal justice, the subject of which is copy of his or her Nevada criminal
a natural person, consisting of records or criminal history record or
descriptions which identify the subject notice of absence of criminal history
and notations of arrests, detention, record from the Repository. This
indictments, information, or other formal provision is stated in the NRS 179A.100.5
criminal charge and dispositions of (b). The information provided will be
charges, including dismissals, based upon Nevada arrest fingerprint card
acquittals, convictions, sentences, submission to the Repository, as well as,
correctional supervision occurring in dispositions. It should be noted that not
Nevada, information concerning the status all Nevada criminal records are
of an offender on parole or probation, accompanied by dispositions. This is
and information concerning a convicted because it was only 1987 that courts
person who has registered as such began requesting or including
pursuant to chapter 179C of NRS. The term dispositions in the reports that they
includes only information contained in send to the Repository.
memoranda of criminal justice in this






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