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Nevada background screening law
What is different here
- The repository is open to a screening service by statute, and what comes back is convictions. NRS 179A.103 establishes "within the Central Repository a service to conduct a name-based search of records of criminal history of an employee, prospective employee, volunteer or prospective volunteer", and the definition of "Eligible person" at subsection 10 is a three-item list: "(1) An employer. (2) A volunteer organization. (3) A screening service." A screening service is defined as "a person or entity designated, directly or indirectly, by an eligible person to provide employment or volunteer screening services to the eligible person". Subsection 5 then limits the content: "The Central Repository shall disseminate to an authorized participant of the service information which reflects convictions only." A consumer reporting agency is a participant in its own right, and the record it receives holds convictions and nothing else.
- The consent paper is written to the federal standard rather than to a Nevada form. NRS 179A.103(6) requires the subject's written consent "directly to the authorized participant or, if the authorized participant is a screening service, directly to the eligible person designating the screening service to receive records of criminal history", and (6)(b) permits that consent to be "a form that complies with the provisions of 15 U.S.C. § 1681b(b)2 for the procurement of a consumer report". Subsection 10(b) defines "Consumer report" by reference to 15 U.S.C. § 1681a(d), and 10(g)(3) accepts consent given "by means of mail, the Internet, other electronic means or other means pursuant to 15 U.S.C. § 1681b(b)(2)". Subsection 7 then lets the screening service pass the records to the employer client "if the screening service maintains records of its dissemination of the records of criminal history".
- Ban-the-box in Nevada is a public-sector rule, and the state's 15-employee threshold does not govern it. NRS 613.330(8) makes it an unlawful employment practice for an appointing authority under chapter 284, the Administrator of the Division of Human Resource Management or the governing body of a county, incorporated city or unincorporated town to consider an applicant's criminal history "without following the procedure required in NRS 245.046, 268.402, 269.0802, 284.281 or 284.283, as applicable". Those procedures allow consideration "only after the earlier of" a final interview conducted in person or a conditional offer of employment, and they bar three categories of record outright: an arrest that did not result in a conviction, a conviction that was dismissed, expunged or sealed, and an infraction or misdemeanor for which no county jail sentence was imposed. The headcount at NRS 613.310(2) applies, in its own words, to "NRS 613.310 to 613.4383", and it does not reach either the ban-the-box subsection or the salary-history and credit-check sections.
- Salary history is barred for every employer, and credit checks are restricted by content rather than by subject. NRS 613.133(1) forbids an employer or employment agency from seeking an applicant's wage or salary history, from relying on it to decide whether to offer employment or what rate to pay, and from retaliating against an applicant who does not provide it, and NRS 613.133(2) requires the wage or salary range to be given to an applicant who has completed an interview. Its "Employer" definition at (8)(a) is "a public or private employer in this State" with no headcount. NRS 613.570 makes it unlawful to require or request a consumer credit report or other credit information "as a condition of employment" or to "Use, accept, refer to or inquire concerning" one, subject to the NRS 613.580 exceptions, and the definition of "Credit information" at NRS 613.550 is confined to information "related to credit", so a criminal-history report is outside that section even though it is a consumer report under federal law.
- The trial courts are organized by judicial district rather than by county, and three districts take in more than one county. NRS 3.010 provides that "The State is hereby divided into 11 judicial districts", and the Fifth (Esmeralda and Nye), the Seventh (Eureka, White Pine and Lincoln) and the Eleventh (Lander, Mineral and Pershing) each hold more than one county, while the First pairs Carson City with Storey County. Felonies reach the district court by exclusion: the Constitution gives the district courts "original jurisdiction in all cases excluded by law from the original jurisdiction of justices' courts", and NRS 4.370(3) confines the justice courts to "all misdemeanors and no other criminal offenses except as otherwise provided by specific statute". Clark County's court keeps records from September 1909 forward, most from 1990 searchable online, requires a case number to access a record, and sends pre-1909 enquiries to Lincoln County.
How the courts here are organized
Nevada does not organize its trial courts by county, and the unit that separates one set of files from another is the judicial district. NRS 3.010 states it directly: "The State is hereby divided into 11 judicial districts, as follows." The section then names them one by one, and three of the eleven take in more than one county. "The Counties of Esmeralda and Nye constitute the Fifth Judicial District." "The Counties of Eureka, White Pine and Lincoln constitute the Seventh Judicial District." "The Counties of Lander, Mineral and Pershing constitute the Eleventh Judicial District." The First is a pairing of a different kind, holding Carson City, an independent city, together with Storey County. A search that models Nevada as seventeen county courts is wrong in four places before it reaches the bench.
The tiers come from the Constitution and from chapter 4. Article 6, section 1 provides that "[t]he judicial power of this State is vested in a court system, comprising a Supreme Court, a court of appeals, district courts and justices of the peace", and adds that "[t]he Legislature may also establish, as part of the system, courts for municipal purposes only in incorporated cities and towns." Article 6, section 6, subsection 1 then gives the felony tier its jurisdiction by exclusion rather than by naming felonies: "The District Courts in the several Judicial Districts of this State have original jurisdiction in all cases excluded by law from the original jurisdiction of justices' courts. They also have final appellate jurisdiction in cases arising in Justices Courts and such other inferior tribunals as may be established by law." The district court is the felony court because the justice court is not, and the statute says so.
The justice court is confined by its own section. NRS 4.370(3) provides: "Justice courts have jurisdiction of all misdemeanors and no other criminal offenses except as otherwise provided by specific statute." Its civil jurisdiction runs to $15,000. Municipal courts, which the Constitution permits for "courts for municipal purposes only in incorporated cities and towns", take jurisdiction under NRS 5.050 over civil actions "[f]or the violation of any ordinance of their respective cities" and over "all misdemeanors committed in violation of the ordinances of their respective cities". Above the district courts sits the Court of Appeals at chapter 2A, whose jurisdiction the Supreme Court fixes by rule rather than the Legislature by statute: NRS 2A.160 provides that "[t]he Supreme Court shall fix by rule the jurisdiction of the Court of Appeals and shall provide for the review, where appropriate, of appeals decided by the Court of Appeals." A misdemeanor, a gross misdemeanor and a felony can therefore each begin in a different court in the same county, and only the felony ends in the district court.
The bench is set district by district rather than by a formula, and the two large districts carry most of it. The Eighth Judicial District, which is Clark County, has 32 district judges who are not family court judges under NRS 3.018 and 26 who are family court judges under NRS 3.0185. The Second, which is Washoe County, has nine and seven under NRS 3.012 and NRS 3.0125. The remaining districts are small, several with a single judge. NRS 3.0105 establishes a family court as a division of the district court "in each judicial district that includes a county whose population is 100,000 or more", and NRS 3.025 requires the district judges in such a district to choose a Chief Judge, with NRS 3.004 defining a "Department of the family court" as "any department of the district court that is designated as a department of the family court". A filing is therefore identified by district, department and case number rather than by county and court alone.
What a search actually meets is a set of separate courts, and the largest one states its own terms. The Eighth Judicial District Court publishes its records policy: "The Clerk of the Court maintains court records from September 1909 through the present date. Most records dating from 1990 to present may be searched online." It requires an identifier: "A case number is required to access court records. If you do not have a case number, please provide the complete names of the parties in the case, along with the year the action was filed." Its fees are set by statute: "The cost for a search of records prior to 1990 is $0.50 per year, per name (NRS 19.013). The cost for photocopies is $0.50 per page (NRS 19.013)." Certification adds $3.00 per document and exemplification $6.00, and "[s]ealed Civil and Criminal cases require a court order to obtain documents or information". The same page carries the boundary condition that "[r]ecords prior to 1909 must be obtained from Lincoln County".
| Court system | District courts organized by judicial district, not by county |
|---|---|
| Tiers | Supreme Court, Court of Appeals, district courts, justice courts, municipal courts |
| Judicial districts | 11 |
| Districts holding more than one county | Three: the Fifth, the Seventh, the Eleventh |
| A district pairing a city and a county | The First, Carson City and Storey County |
| Felony tier | District court, by exclusion from the justice court |
| Misdemeanor tier | Justice court, all misdemeanors and no other criminal offense except by specific statute |
| Justice court civil limit | $15,000 |
| Municipal courts | Ordinance violations in incorporated cities and towns |
| Court of Appeals | Jurisdiction fixed by Supreme Court rule, NRS 2A.160 |
| Family court divisions | In each district holding a county of 100,000 or more |
| Eighth Judicial District bench | 32 district judges, 26 family court judges |
| Second Judicial District bench | 9 district judges, 7 family court judges |
| Assignment unit | Department of the district court, with a Chief Judge chosen by the district judges |
| Eighth Judicial District records | September 1909 to present, most from 1990 online |
| Case identifier | A case number is required, or the parties and the filing year |
| Pre-1990 search fee | $0.50 per year, per name (NRS 19.013) |
| Copies and certification | $0.50 per page, certification $3.00, exemplification $6.00 |
| Sealed cases | Court order required |
| Records before 1909 | Lincoln County |
| Statewide trial-court search | Not verified for this page |
| Municipal court records | Not verified for this page |
The repository and the courts hold different things, and the difference is stated by the agency that runs the repository. Its own description of a Nevada criminal history record excludes "[c]ourt indices and records of public judicial proceedings, court decisions and opinions, and information disclosed during public judicial proceedings", "[r]ecords of traffic violations constituting misdemeanors", "[i]nformation concerning juveniles", "[r]ecords of application for and issuance, suspension, revocation or renewal of occupational licenses, including permits to work in the gaming industry", and "[r]ecords which originated in an agency other than an agency of criminal justice in this state". The same page adds that a record is "based upon the person's fingerprints obtained at the time of the person's arrest and corresponding dispositions of arrests, as of 1987", and that "[i]n order to obtain a criminal history record prior to 1987, a request would have to be made of the arresting agency". A Nevada repository response cannot see a court index entry, a misdemeanor traffic conviction, a juvenile matter, a licensing action or anything from outside Nevada, and its historical reach begins at the fingerprint record rather than at the state's beginning.
There are two statutory doors into the state record and they return different content. NRS 179A.100(1)(a) allows an agency of criminal justice to disseminate without restriction records "which reflect records of conviction only", and 179A.100(3) requires dissemination to a prospective employer, on request, of records from a name-based inquiry which either "[r]eflect convictions only" or "[p]ertain to an incident for which the prospective employee or volunteer is currently within the system of criminal justice, including parole or probation". The 179A.103 service described above is the commercial door and it returns convictions. A request to the maintaining agency, made under 179A.100(4)(m) with the subject's "written consent to the release of that information by the agency which maintains it", is the other door and it can also return a matter that is still inside the criminal justice system. Neither door returns a non-conviction that has been disposed of, and NRS 179A.110 confines whatever comes through either: a record "must be used solely for the purpose for which the record was requested", and no recipient may disseminate it further "without express authority of law or in accordance with a court order".
What is closed by statute stays closed until someone applies to open it. For a non-conviction, the mechanism is NRS 179A.160(1), which lets a person who was arrested, cited or made the subject of a warrant and then acquitted or favorably disposed of "apply in writing to the Central Repository and the agency which maintains the record to have it removed from the files which are available and generally searched for the purpose of responding to inquiries concerning the criminal history of a person". Subsection 2 withholds removal in five situations, and one of them catches the ordinary negotiated case: the disposition was "a deferred prosecution, plea bargain or other similar disposition". A plea bargain therefore keeps a charge in the searchable file even where the plea was to something the employer may not consider, and the operator's own FAQ is consistent with that, stating that a deferred sentence is "[n]ot necessarily" a conviction because a person who completes the probationary period is not convicted, while the removal remedy does not reach it.
Sealing after conviction is the larger mechanism and it is a restriction on distribution rather than a destruction. NRS 179.245(1) bands the waiting period by offense class: 10 years for a category A felony, a crime of violence or residential burglary; 5 years for a category B, C or D felony; 2 years for a category E felony; 2 years for a gross misdemeanor; 7 years for a violation of NRS 422.540 to 422.570, a non-felony violation of NRS 484C.110 or 484C.120, or a non-felony domestic battery; 2 years for a misdemeanor battery, harassment, stalking or violation of a protective order; and 1 year for any other misdemeanor. A petition under subsection 2 must be accompanied by the petitioner's own current Central Repository record and must "[i]nclude a list of any other public or private agency, company, official or other custodian of records that is reasonably known to the petitioner to have possession of records of the conviction and to whom the order to seal records, if issued, will be directed". A screening firm is a named class in that list, which is how a Nevada sealing order reaches a commercial file. Once made, NRS 179.285(1)(a) provides that "[a]ll proceedings recounted in the record are deemed never to have occurred, and the person to whom the order pertains may properly answer accordingly to any inquiry, including, without limitation, an inquiry relating to an application for employment, concerning the arrest, conviction, dismissal or acquittal and the events and proceedings relating to the arrest, conviction, dismissal or acquittal", subject to the opening words of the section, "Except as otherwise provided in NRS 179.301".
The exceptions to a sealing order are the part that a screening file has to hold on to. NRS 179.301 lets the Gaming Control Board and the Gaming Commission inspect sealed records related to gaming, the Division of Insurance inspect records related to insurance, a prosecuting attorney inspect records concerning NRS 202.485, and the State Board of Pardons Commissioners inspect where a pardon is sought. Subsection 4 reaches employers directly: "The Central Repository for Nevada Records of Criminal History and its employees may inquire into and inspect any records sealed pursuant to NRS 179.245 or 179.255 that constitute information relating to sexual offenses, and may notify employers of the information in accordance with federal laws and regulations." A sealed sexual offense record is therefore still reachable by the repository and still notifiable. The repository's own page states the character of the remedy without softening it: "an order sealing records is not an expungement of records, which allows for the destruction of the records", and the operator adds a limit that matters to a multi-state file, which is that "although the entry of an order by a court requires that certain criminal justice agencies located outside the State of Nevada are to comply with its direction, these agencies are not bound to follow this order. Therefore, it is possible that these records will not be removed from their record entry systems."
The routing consequence is that a Nevada answer has to say which system answered it. A repository response through the 179A.103 service is a convictions-only result carrying nothing from the courts, nothing juvenile, no misdemeanor traffic and nothing from outside Nevada, and it begins at the 1987 fingerprint record. A court search is run district by district, needs a case number or the parties and filing year, costs a per-name annual fee for anything before 1990 at the Clark County rate, and reaches sealed matters only on a court order. A local sheriff or police department can also run a check, and the repository's FAQ states the limit plainly: "the response will only include records specific to that office or department." None of those three is a Nevada statewide criminal history on its own, and the county is not the unit that separates them.
The federal baseline
Federal law sets the floor here as it does everywhere. It is at 15 U.S.C. §1681 et seq., it binds the agency and the employer separately, and it does not vary by state. The FCRA article covers it section by section, including the seven-year limits, the salary threshold and the adverse action sequence, so that this page does not restate any of it.
What follows is only the overlay: what Nevada adds on top of that floor, and where it departs from it.
What Nevada law adds
Consumer reporting statute
Nevada has one and it reaches credit content rather than criminal history. Chapter 598C is titled "CONSUMER REPORTING" and it defines "Consumer report" at NRS 598C.060(1) as a communication by a reporting agency "regarding the payment history of a particular consumer, including information regarding his or her credit worthiness, credit standing or credit capacity, which is intended for present or future use in whole or in part to serve as a factor in determining the consumer's eligibility for: (a) Credit or insurance to be used primarily for personal, family or household purposes; (b) Purposes relating to employment; or (c) Any other purpose authorized pursuant to 15 U.S.C. §§ 1681 et seq." Employment is named as a purpose, and "Adverse action" at NRS 598C.020(1)(b) includes "[t]he denial of employment or any other decision for employment purposes that adversely affects a current or prospective employee". A "Reporting agency" at NRS 598C.100(1) is a person who "for fees, dues or on a cooperative nonprofit basis, regularly engages in whole or in part in the business of assembling or evaluating information regarding the credit of or other information regarding consumers to furnish consumer reports to third parties". The definitions anchor in credit and payment history, so a criminal-history product sits inside the "other information" limb rather than the core, and the purge and notice duties apply to a reporting agency's files whatever the product line.
NRS 598C.020 · NRS 598C.060 · NRS 598C.100 · NRS 598C.150 · NRS 598C.170
Ban-the-box, private sector
No private-sector criminal-history question ban appears in chapter 613 as read in full. The chapter's table of sections contains no such instrument, and the phrase "criminal history" occurs three times in the chapter: twice in the title of NRS 613.330 and once in the body of subsection 8 of that section, which names public bodies only. A private employer in Nevada is nonetheless covered by the off-duty product protection at NRS 613.333, the marijuana screening bar at NRS 613.132, the salary-history prohibition at NRS 613.133 and the credit-check restriction at NRS 613.570, none of which is an inquiry or timing rule. State it as a finding about chapter 613 read in full rather than as a statement about Nevada law as a whole, because the municipal layer was not read.
NRS ch. 613 · NRS 613.330
Ban-the-box, public sector
Enforced as an unlawful employment practice and aimed at public employers. NRS 613.330(8) makes it unlawful for an appointing authority governed by chapter 284, the Administrator of the Division of Human Resource Management or the governing body of a county, incorporated city or unincorporated town to consider an applicant's criminal history "without following the procedure required in NRS 245.046, 268.402, 269.0802, 284.281 or 284.283, as applicable". The trigger is an earliest-of test: NRS 245.046(1) allows consideration "only after the earlier of" "[t]he final interview conducted in person" or the county having "extended to the applicant a conditional offer of employment", and NRS 284.283(1)(b) uses "only after the earliest of" the final interview, certification by the Administrator, or a conditional offer. NRS 268.402 and 269.0802 carry the procedure to cities and towns and NRS 284.281 to the unclassified state service.
NRS 613.330(8) · NRS 245.046 · NRS 284.283 · NRS 284.281
Occupational licensing
A licensing dimension was not researched as its own rule, and the page does not state one. What the instruments read in full do say is on the access side: NRS 179A.100(4) names the Nevada Gaming Control Board, the State Board of Nursing and the Private Investigator's Licensing Board among the recipients to whom an agency of criminal justice must disseminate records on request, NRS 179A.140(3)(a) bars the Central Repository from charging again for information about a person for whom it provided a similar report "within the immediately preceding 90 days in conjunction with the application by that person for professional licensure", and NRS 179.301 lets the Gaming Control Board, the Gaming Commission and the Division of Insurance inspect sealed records in their own fields. The repository also excludes licensing records from what a criminal history record contains. Whether Nevada restricts a conviction-based license refusal in the way some states do was not established here.
NRS 179A.100(4) · NRS 179A.140(3)(a) · NRS 179.301
Lookback limits
The reporting lookback in chapter 598C runs on everything except convictions. NRS 598C.150 requires a reporting agency to "periodically purge from its files and after purging shall not disclose" bankruptcies whose dates of adjudication precede the report by more than 10 years, and then "any other civil judgment, a report of criminal proceedings, or other adverse information, excluding a record of a conviction of a crime, which precedes the report by more than 7 years", in each case subject to a specific statute including NRS 463.334 for gaming. Convictions are the excluded category, so Nevada sets no reporting lookback on a conviction and does set a seven-year one on a report of criminal proceedings that is not a conviction, which is the arrest, charge, dismissal and non-conviction material. The section was added in 1993 and its most recent amendment is recorded as 2015: the source note reads "(Added to NRS by 1993, 2462; A 2015, 2719)".
NRS 598C.150 · NRS 463.334
Non-conviction records
Removal is by application, and a plea bargain forfeits it. NRS 179A.160(1) lets a person who was arrested, issued a citation or made the subject of a warrant and then acquitted or favorably disposed of "apply in writing to the Central Repository and the agency which maintains the record to have it removed from the files which are available and generally searched for the purpose of responding to inquiries concerning the criminal history of a person". Subsection 2 withholds removal where the defendant is a fugitive, where the case is under active prosecution on a current prosecutor's certificate, where "the disposition of the case was a deferred prosecution, plea bargain or other similar disposition", where the person has a prior felony or gross misdemeanor conviction in any United States jurisdiction, or where the person has been arrested for or charged with another crime other than a minor traffic violation since the arrest, citation or warrant in question. Sealing after conviction is separate and is a restriction on distribution rather than a destruction: the repository states that "an order sealing records is not an expungement of records, which allows for the destruction of the records", and NRS 179.285(1)(a) makes the proceedings "deemed never to have occurred" and permits the person to "answer accordingly to any inquiry, including, without limitation, an inquiry relating to an application for employment, concerning the arrest, conviction, dismissal or acquittal".
NRS 179A.160 · NRS 179.245 · NRS 179.285 · NRS 179.301
Salary threshold
No salary or compensation threshold was located in the Nevada instruments read in full: chapter 598C, chapters 613 and 603A, and chapter 179A. NRS 598C.150 sets no compensation level at which its purge duty stops applying, and no counterpart to the federal high-salary exemption appears in it; the only figures in the section are the 10-year bankruptcy and 7-year adverse-information periods. This is stated as a finding about the instruments read in full rather than as a statement about the whole of the Nevada Revised Statutes, because no full-text phrase search over the code exists from this environment.
NRS 598C.150 · NRS ch. 613
Salary history
Prohibited, for public and private employers alike, with no headcount. NRS 613.133(1) provides that "[a]n employer or an employment agency shall not, orally or in writing, personally or through an agent: (a) Seek the wage or salary history of an applicant for employment; (b) Rely on the wage or salary history of an applicant to determine: (1) Whether to offer employment to an applicant; or (2) The rate of pay for the applicant; or (c) Refuse to interview, hire, promote or employ an applicant, or discriminate or retaliate against an applicant if the applicant does not provide wage or salary history." Subsection 2 requires the wage or salary range to be given to an applicant who has completed an interview and, on request, to an employee who has applied for a promotion or transfer and completed an interview for it or been offered it, and subsection 3 preserves the employer's right to ask about wage or salary expectations. Subsection 8(a) defines "Employer" as "a public or private employer in this State", naming the State of Nevada, an agency of this State, a political subdivision and any entity governed by NRS 245.0465, 268.4067, 269.084 or 284.286. A violation is an unlawful employment practice under subsection 4, the Labor Commissioner may impose "an administrative penalty of not more than $5,000 for each such violation" under subsection 6, and NRS 613.134 provides a right-to-sue notice after 180 days.
NRS 613.133 · NRS 613.134 · NRS 613.135
Credit checks
Restricted, and the restriction is confined to credit content. NRS 613.570 provides that, except as otherwise provided in NRS 613.580, "it is unlawful for any employer in this State to: 1. Directly or indirectly, require, request, suggest or cause any employee or prospective employee to submit a consumer credit report or other credit information as a condition of employment; 2. Use, accept, refer to or inquire concerning a consumer credit report or other credit information; 3. Discharge, discipline, discriminate against in any manner or deny employment or promotion to, or threaten to take any such action against any employee or prospective employee: (a) Who refuses, declines or fails to submit a consumer credit report or other credit information; or (b) On the basis of the results of a consumer credit report or other credit information". NRS 613.550 defines "Credit information" as "any information that is related to credit and derived from a consumer credit report or found on a consumer credit report", and adds that the term "does not include information that is not related to credit, regardless of whether it is contained in a consumer credit report", which keeps a criminal-history report outside the section. NRS 613.560 defines "Employer" by reference to NRS 613.440(1), which carries no size threshold. Liability is a private action for legal or equitable relief with a three-year limitation under NRS 613.590, and an administrative penalty of "not more than $9,000 for each such violation" under NRS 613.600.
NRS 613.550 · NRS 613.560 · NRS 613.570 · NRS 613.580 · NRS 613.600
Cannabis, medical
The chapter declines to require accommodation at work and requires an attempt at accommodation for the cardholder's needs. NRS 678C.850(2) provides that the chapter does not "[r]equire any employer to allow the medical use of cannabis in the workplace", and subsection 3, subject to subsection 4, does not "require an employer to modify the job or working conditions of a person who engages in the medical use of cannabis that are based upon the reasonable business purposes of the employer but the employer must attempt to make reasonable accommodations for the medical needs of an employee who engages in the medical use of cannabis if the employee holds a valid registry identification card, provided that such reasonable accommodation would not: (a) Pose a threat of harm or danger to persons or property or impose an undue hardship on the employer; or (b) Prohibit the employee from fulfilling any and all of his or her job responsibilities." Subsection 4 provides that the chapter does not "[p]rohibit a law enforcement agency from adopting policies and procedures that preclude an employee from engaging in the medical use of cannabis". The protection is of the cardholder's ability to seek an accommodation, not of the use itself at work.
NRS 678C.850
Cannabis, adult use
The adult-use chapter preserves an employer's workplace policy and does not confer an employment protection. NRS 678D.510(1)(a) provides that the chapter does not prohibit "[a] public or private employer from maintaining, enacting and enforcing a workplace policy prohibiting or restricting actions or conduct otherwise permitted under this chapter". The protections that do reach an employer in Nevada are older and general. NRS 613.333(1) makes it an unlawful employment practice for an employer to "[f]ail or refuse to hire a prospective employee" or to "[d]ischarge or otherwise discriminate against any employee concerning the employee's compensation, terms, conditions or privileges of employment, because the employee engages in the lawful use in this state of any product outside the premises of the employer during the employee's nonworking hours, if that use does not adversely affect the employee's ability to perform his or her job or the safety of other employees." The section was added in 1991, before adult-use cannabis was lawful in Nevada, so its application to cannabis follows from cannabis becoming a lawful product rather than from the section naming it, and NRS 613.310(2) applies its 15-employee threshold to it.
NRS 678D.510 · NRS 613.333 · NRS 613.310
Statewide repository
The repository is the Central Repository for Nevada Records of Criminal History, held by the Nevada State Police Records, Communications and Compliance Division in Carson City, and its name-based search service is open to a screening service by name. NRS 179A.103 establishes the service, makes "a screening service" an eligible person, requires the eligible person to contract with the repository, allows the consent form to be the federal 15 U.S.C. § 1681b(b)(2) form, permits the screening service to pass the records to the employer client if it maintains a dissemination log, and gives the repository an audit right and a termination right. What the service returns is fixed by subsection 5: "information which reflects convictions only". The operator states the practical terms: the service sits at 333 West Nye Lane, Suite 100, Carson City; a request needs a rolled ten-print fingerprint card, form DPS-006 and a money order or cashier's check; a request "can still be made without a signed waiver, but the records will consist only of conviction records"; civil applicant account approval "can take anywhere from 6 to 8 weeks and will not be expedited"; and a request is processed "within 30 calendar days" with about two further weeks for mail and delivery.
NRS 179A.103 · NRS 179A.110 · NRS 179A.130 · NRS 179A.140
Court structure
Eleven judicial districts, three of which take in more than one county, and a felony tier defined by exclusion. NRS 3.010 provides that "[t]he State is hereby divided into 11 judicial districts", naming Esmeralda and Nye as the Fifth, Eureka, White Pine and Lincoln as the Seventh, and Lander, Mineral and Pershing as the Eleventh, with Carson City and Storey paired as the First. Article 6, section 6, subsection 1 of the Constitution gives the district courts "original jurisdiction in all cases excluded by law from the original jurisdiction of justices' courts", and NRS 4.370(3) confines the justice courts to "all misdemeanors and no other criminal offenses except as otherwise provided by specific statute". A case number is required to obtain a record from the largest district, records run from September 1909 with most from 1990 online, and pre-1909 records are held by Lincoln County.
NRS 3.010 · Nev. Const. art. 6, § 6(1) · NRS 4.370(3) · NRS 5.050 · NRS 2A.160 · NRS 3.0105
Automated hiring decisions
No prohibition on automated hiring decisions was located in the Nevada instruments read in full. Chapter 613 contains no provision addressing automated or algorithmic hiring or evaluation, and chapter 603A's automated-processing and profiling material sits in the consumer opt-out and consumer health data provisions rather than in employment, where NRS 603A.425 excludes "a natural person acting in an employment context" from the definition of consumer. This is a finding about those chapters read in full and not a statement that no Nevada statute anywhere reaches the subject.
NRS ch. 613 · NRS 603A.338 · NRS 603A.425
Privacy statute
Nevada has one, and it exempts consumer reporting agencies by name and by federal reference. Chapter 603A is titled "SECURITY AND PRIVACY OF PERSONAL INFORMATION". NRS 603A.338 provides that the consumer opt-out and privacy-notice provisions at NRS 603A.300 to 603A.360 "do not apply to: 1. A consumer reporting agency, as defined in 15 U.S.C. § 1681a(f); 2. Any personally identifiable information regulated by the Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1681 et seq., and the regulations adopted pursuant thereto, which is collected, maintained or sold as provided in that Act; 3. A person who collects, maintains or makes sales of personally identifiable information for the purposes of fraud prevention; 4. Any personally identifiable information that is publicly available". The list runs to seven items, the remainder being information protected under the federal Drivers Privacy Protection Act of 1994, consumer health data subject to NRS 603A.400 to 603A.550, and a financial institution or its affiliate subject to the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. Its source note reads "(Added to NRS by 2021, 1672; A 2023, 3462)", so the exclusions are current as amended in 2023. The consumer health data provisions added in 2023 carry two more: NRS 603A.425 defines a consumer as not including "a natural person acting in an employment context or as an agent of a governmental entity", and NRS 603A.490(1)(h)(2) excludes personally identifiable information governed by the Fair Credit Reporting Act. The earlier security and breach provisions do reach a screening firm as a data collector, and NRS 603A.220(6) requires a data collector notifying more than 1,000 persons at one time to notify "any consumer reporting agency that compiles and maintains files on consumers on a nationwide basis, as that term is defined in 15 U.S.C. § 1681a(p)", which is a duty owed to the nationwide agencies rather than one imposed on a screening firm.
NRS 603A.220(6) · NRS 603A.338 · NRS 603A.425 · NRS 603A.490
Lie detector tests
Nevada bars lie detector tests in hiring on the same drafting pattern it uses for credit checks, and the exemptions are narrow. NRS 613.480 provides that, except as otherwise provided in NRS 613.510, "it is unlawful for any employer in this state to: 1. Directly or indirectly, require, request, suggest or cause any employee or prospective employee to take or submit to any lie detector test; 2. Use, accept, refer to or inquire concerning the results of any lie detector test of any employee or prospective employee; 3. Discharge, discipline, discriminate against in any manner or deny employment or promotion to, or threaten to take any such action against any employee or prospective employee: (a) Who refuses, declines or fails to take or submit to any lie detector test; or (b) On the basis of the results of any lie detector test". NRS 613.510 exempts an examination administered in connection with an ongoing investigation of economic loss or injury to the business, with conditions that include the employee having had access to the property, a reasonable suspicion of involvement, and a signed written statement retained for at least three years, and it exempts polygraphic examinations of certain prospective employees. NRS 613.450 excludes the State and its political subdivisions from the scheme, and NRS 613.490 gives a private action with a three-year limitation. A screening firm whose product includes integrity testing should read NRS 613.480 rather than the title of the chapter.
NRS 613.450 · NRS 613.480 · NRS 613.490 · NRS 613.510
The statute that surprises people
The repository service that puts a screening service inside the statute
NRS 179A.103
Most state repository chapters describe who may be given a record and leave a screening firm to argue that it stands in the employer's shoes. Nevada names it. NRS 179A.103(1) provides that "[t]here is hereby established within the Central Repository a service to conduct a name-based search of records of criminal history of an employee, prospective employee, volunteer or prospective volunteer", and subsection 10 defines who may take part. "Eligible person" is "(1) An employer. (2) A volunteer organization. (3) A screening service." A "Screening service" is "a person or entity designated, directly or indirectly, by an eligible person to provide employment or volunteer screening services to the eligible person", and an "Authorized participant" is "an eligible person who has entered into a contract with the Central Repository to participate in the service".
The contract is deliberately thin. Subsection 2 provides that an eligible person wishing to participate "must enter into a contract with the Central Repository", and then confines the bargain: "The elements of a contract entered into pursuant to this section must be limited to requiring the eligible person to: (a) Pay a fee pursuant to subsection 3, if applicable; and (b) Comply with applicable law." The Central Repository "may charge a reasonable fee for participation in the service" under subsection 3. Subsection 4 states the permitted purpose: an authorized participant "may inquire about the records of criminal history of an employee, prospective employee, volunteer or prospective volunteer to determine the suitability of the employee or prospective employee for employment or the suitability of the volunteer or prospective volunteer for volunteering."
Subsection 5 is the content limit and it is one sentence. "The Central Repository shall disseminate to an authorized participant of the service information which reflects convictions only." Nothing else comes through this door, so an arrest that ended in a dismissal, a deferred adjudication, a nolle prosequi or an acquittal is not part of the response. Where a product line depends on non-conviction data, Nevada is not the source for it, and the alternatives are the court of record and, for a person who applies to have it removed, NRS 179A.160.
The consent provision is drafted by reference to the federal statute rather than to a state form. Subsection 6 requires the subject's written consent "directly to the authorized participant or, if the authorized participant is a screening service, directly to the eligible person designating the screening service to receive records of criminal history, for the Central Repository to perform the search and to release the information to an authorized participant", and then allows the consent form to be either "[a] form designated by the Central Repository" or, "if the authorized participant is a screening service, a form that complies with the provisions of 15 U.S.C. § 1681b(b)2 for the procurement of a consumer report". Subsection 10(b) defines "Consumer report" by reference to 15 U.S.C. § 1681a(d), and 10(g) treats an electronic signature under 15 U.S.C. § 7006(5), the repository form, and consent "by means of mail, the Internet, other electronic means or other means pursuant to 15 U.S.C. § 1681b(b)(2)" as written consent. Where the consent has to go is worth reading twice: where the participant is a screening service, the consent runs to the employer designating it rather than to the firm running the search, so the paper trail has to establish which employer designated the service.
Subsection 7 authorizes the onward pass and conditions it on a log. "A screening service that is designated to receive records of criminal history on behalf of an eligible person may provide such records of criminal history to the eligible person upon request of the eligible person if the screening service maintains records of its dissemination of the records of criminal history." Subsection 8 lets the Central Repository audit an authorized participant "at such times as the Central Repository deems necessary, to ensure that records of criminal history are securely maintained", and subsection 9 lets it terminate participation where a participant fails "[t]o pay the fees required to participate in the service" or "[t]o address, within a reasonable period, deficiencies identified in an audit conducted pursuant to subsection 8". The state holds an audit right and a termination right against the firm, which is a different relationship from the one a screening firm usually has with a state repository.
The practical read is that Nevada has built a state-level channel that presupposes commercial screening, and then closed the content down to the one category that needs no rehabilitation argument. A firm can be a participant by name, use its federal disclosure and authorization as the consent, pass the result to the employer client on a logged basis, and it receives convictions only, from a file that begins at the 1987 fingerprint record and excludes the courts, juvenile matters, misdemeanor traffic and everything from outside Nevada. The statute also leaves a firm no room on the fee and no argument about the audit: subsection 2 limits the contract to a fee and compliance with law, and subsection 9 makes non-compliance a termination event.
Reporting limits at a glance
Every figure below is against Nevada law. Where a row says “federal only”, the state has set nothing and 15 U.S.C. §1681c governs.
| Dimension | Limit | Source and qualification |
|---|---|---|
| Consumer reporting statute | NRS ch. 598C | Chapter 598C, "CONSUMER REPORTING". "Consumer report" is defined at NRS 598C.060(1) around payment history and credit standing, with employment named as a permitted purpose, and "Adverse action" at NRS 598C.020(1)(b) includes employment decisions. |
| Reporting lookback, convictions | None | NRS 598C.150(2) purges adverse information older than 7 years "excluding a record of a conviction of a crime", so the seven years does not reach a conviction. No other reporting window for convictions appears in the chapter. |
| Reporting lookback, non-conviction criminal proceedings | 7 years | NRS 598C.150(2), subject to a specific statute including NRS 463.334. This is the limb that reaches a report of criminal proceedings which is not a record of conviction. |
| Bankruptcies | 10 years | NRS 598C.150(1), subject to NRS 463.334, measured from the date of adjudication. |
| Ban-the-box, private sector | None located | Chapter 613 contains no criminal-history question ban addressed to a private employer as read in full, and the phrase "criminal history" appears in the chapter only in and about NRS 613.330, which names public bodies. |
| Ban-the-box, public sector | Earliest of the final in-person interview, certification, or a conditional offer | NRS 613.330(8), enforced through NRS 245.046 (county), 268.402 (city), 269.0802 (town), 284.281 (unclassified state service) and 284.283 (classified state service). |
| Headcount, chapter 613 antidiscrimination and off-duty use | 15 employees | NRS 613.310(2) defines "Employer" as "any person who has 15 or more employees for each working day in each of 20 or more calendar weeks in the current or preceding calendar year", and confines the definition to "NRS 613.310 to 613.4383". |
| Salary history | Prohibited, no headcount | NRS 613.133 binds "a public or private employer in this State", bars seeking or relying on wage or salary history, and requires the wage range to be given to an applicant who has completed an interview. Penalty up to $5,000 per violation under NRS 613.133(6). |
| Salary threshold | None | No compensation threshold appears in chapter 598C, chapter 613, chapter 603A or chapter 179A, all read in full. The finding is about those instruments and not about the whole code. |
| Credit checks | Restricted to credit content | NRS 613.570 bars requesting or using a consumer credit report or other credit information as a condition of employment, subject to the NRS 613.580 exceptions. NRS 613.550 confines "Credit information" to information related to credit. Penalty up to $9,000 per violation under NRS 613.600. |
| Cannabis, adult use | Employer policy preserved | NRS 678D.510(1)(a) does not prohibit an employer from maintaining, enacting and enforcing a workplace policy prohibiting or restricting conduct otherwise permitted under the chapter. |
| Cannabis, medical | Reasonable accommodation attempt required | NRS 678C.850(2) and (3): the chapter does not require an employer to allow medical use at work, but the employer must attempt reasonable accommodation for a cardholder's medical needs, subject to the threat and undue hardship proviso. |
| Cannabis, pre-employment screening | No refusal to hire on a marijuana result | NRS 613.132(1), with exceptions at (2) for firefighters, emergency medical technicians, driving positions requiring screening and positions that could adversely affect the safety of others, and a second-test right at (3). |
| Off-duty lawful product use | Protected, 15 employees | NRS 613.333(1) bars refusing to hire or discriminating because of "the lawful use in this state of any product outside the premises of the employer during the employee's nonworking hours" that does not affect job performance or the safety of others. |
| Statewide repository | Open to a screening service, convictions only | NRS 179A.103: "Eligible person" includes "[a] screening service", and subsection 5 requires dissemination of "information which reflects convictions only". NRS 179A.110 confines use to the purpose requested. |
| Sealing after conviction | 1 to 10 years by offense class | NRS 179.245(1): 10 years for a category A felony, a crime of violence or residential burglary; 5 years for a category B, C or D felony; 2 years for a category E felony, a gross misdemeanor, or a battery, harassment or stalking misdemeanor; 7 years for the NRS 422.540 to 422.570, DUI and domestic battery groups; 1 year for any other misdemeanor. |
| Sealing, effect | Non-disclosure, not destruction | NRS 179.285(1)(a) deems the proceedings never to have occurred and permits the person to "answer accordingly" to an employment inquiry, subject to NRS 179.301. The repository states that "an order sealing records is not an expungement of records, which allows for the destruction of the records". |
| Lie detector tests | Prohibited, narrow exemptions | NRS 613.480, with the NRS 613.510 exemptions limited to an ongoing investigation of economic loss or injury with the stated conditions, and to polygraphic examination of certain prospective employees. NRS 613.450 excludes the State and its political subdivisions. |
Adverse action here
The federal sequence applies unchanged: pre-adverse action notice with a copy of the report and the summary of rights, a reasonable opportunity to dispute, then the adverse action notice with the agency’s details and a dispute route. The FCRA article sets it out in full.
Nevada adds a state notice duty in chapter 598C that is stated as three acts. NRS 598C.170 provides that where "a person takes adverse action with respect to a consumer which is based on a consumer report from a reporting agency, the person shall: 1. Notify the consumer of the action taken; 2. Furnish him or her with the name and address of the reporting agency; and 3. Inform him or her of his or her right to obtain a copy of the consumer report from the agency." The duty is tied to action taken on a consumer report rather than to a report obtained, and the third element is a right-to-a-copy notice rather than a copy.
For a public employer, the state procedure puts its own steps in front of the decision and they are not the federal ones. NRS 245.046(5) requires a rejection or rescission of an offer to be made in writing, to "[i]nclude a statement indicating that the criminal history of the applicant was the basis for the rejection or rescission of the offer" and to "[p]rovide an opportunity for the applicant to discuss the basis for the rejection or rescission of the offer with the director of the department of human resources of the county or a person designated by the director". Subsection (6) requires the application form itself to state that "[a] record of conviction will not necessarily bar the applicant from employment" and to list the factors that will be considered. NRS 284.283 carries the same scheme for the classified state service. A county, city, town or state agency that runs the federal sequence and stops has not done this part.
Three categories of record are placed off limits to a public employer's consideration, and one of them is a sealed conviction. NRS 245.046(4) and NRS 284.283(4) each exclude "an arrest of the applicant which did not result in a conviction", "a record of conviction which was dismissed, expunged or sealed", and "an infraction or misdemeanor for which a sentence of imprisonment in a county jail was not imposed", the first of the three carrying the proviso "Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3". Where a screening report carries a Nevada conviction that has since been sealed, NRS 179.285(1)(a) is the provision that decides the point, because the person "may properly answer accordingly to any inquiry, including, without limitation, an inquiry relating to an application for employment". The repository can still notify an employer of a sealed record relating to a sexual offense under NRS 179.301(4), and the repository's own page states that "an order sealing records is not an expungement of records", so a letter that treats a sealing order as though the record had never existed overstates it.
Two state exposure routes run alongside the federal sequence and neither depends on it. NRS 613.590 gives an employee or prospective employee a private action for legal or equitable relief, including employment, reinstatement or promotion and lost wages and benefits, with a three-year limitation, and NRS 613.600 lets the Labor Commissioner impose an administrative penalty of "not more than $9,000 for each such violation" for a credit-check breach. NRS 613.133(4) makes a salary-history breach an unlawful employment practice, subsection (6) allows an administrative penalty of "not more than $5,000 for each such violation", and NRS 613.134 provides a right-to-sue notice on request once 180 days have passed since the complaint. A decision influenced by credit content or by pay history therefore carries a state proceeding that no federal notice obligation addresses.
What a Nevada letter sits on matters as much as what it says. NRS 179A.110 provides that a record of criminal history obtained under the chapter "must be used solely for the purpose for which the record was requested" and bars further dissemination "without express authority of law or in accordance with a court order", so an adverse action taken on a record obtained through the NRS 179A.103 service has to be a determination of suitability for the employment in question. Where the search was a court search rather than a repository search, the basis is the court file, and the repository's content limits do not describe it.
Nevada adds no separate state adverse-action notice for a convictions-only criminal history report and no state lookback on convictions, so the federal sequence is the whole of the procedural requirement there. The state overlay is the chapter 598C notice where a reporting agency's consumer report is involved, the written statement and discussion opportunity in the public-sector procedure, and the two administrative and private exposure routes at NRS 613.133 and NRS 613.570. The reverse is also worth keeping straight: the seven-year purge at NRS 598C.150(2) reaches arrest and charge material, so a Nevada adverse action taken on a non-conviction that is still inside the window is a state question as well as a federal one.
Screening in Nevada: what your process needs
- Read NRS 179A.103 before designing a Nevada repository product. It establishes the name-based service, and the definition of "Eligible person" includes a screening service by name, so the participation route is a contract with the Central Repository rather than an argument that the firm stands in the employer's shoes.
- Set the expectation that the 179A.103 service returns convictions only. Subsection 5 is one sentence and it is a content limit, so any Nevada product line that depends on non-conviction data has to be built on the court of record instead.
- Use the federal disclosure and authorization as the state search consent, and check where it is directed. NRS 179A.103(6)(b) accepts a form complying with 15 U.S.C. § 1681b(b)2, but where the participant is a screening service the consent runs to the eligible person designating it, so the file needs to show which employer designated the service.
- Keep a dissemination log. NRS 179A.103(7) conditions the pass-through to the employer client on the screening service maintaining records of its dissemination, and NRS 179A.110 independently bars further dissemination without express authority of law or a court order.
- Expect an audit right and a termination right. Subsections 8 and 9 let the Central Repository audit an authorized participant for secure maintenance and terminate participation for unpaid fees or unaddressed audit deficiencies, and subsection 2 limits the contract to a fee and compliance with applicable law.
- Do not treat a Nevada repository response as a Nevada criminal history. It excludes court indices and public judicial records, misdemeanor traffic violations, juvenile information, licensing records and everything originating outside Nevada criminal justice agencies, and it runs from the 1987 fingerprint record. Send pre-1987 enquiries to the arresting agency.
- Plan for the timing on the repository side. The operator states a 30 calendar day processing target with about two further weeks for mail and delivery, and civil applicant account approval "can take anywhere from 6 to 8 weeks and will not be expedited".
- Do not apply the 15-employee threshold to the ban-the-box rule. NRS 613.330(8) names public bodies directly, and NRS 613.310(2) confines its own definition to "NRS 613.310 to 613.4383". The threshold does reach the off-duty-use protection at NRS 613.333.
- For a public employer in Nevada, apply the earliest-of trigger and the three excluded record types. Consideration is permitted only after the final in-person interview, certification or a conditional offer, and an arrest without a conviction, a conviction that was dismissed, expunged or sealed, and an infraction or misdemeanor with no county jail sentence are placed off limits to consideration, the arrest item subject to the proviso for charges pending within the previous six months.
- For a public employer, write the rejection the way NRS 245.046(5) and NRS 284.283(5) require: in writing, stating that criminal history was the basis, and with an opportunity to discuss it with the county human resources director for a county or the director of human resources for the appointing authority for a state position, or a person either designates. The application form must also carry the statement that a conviction will not necessarily bar employment and the factors that will be considered.
- Check the exemptions before assuming the public-sector rule applies. NRS 245.046(7) and NRS 284.283(7) exclude applicants as peace officers or firefighters and applicants for positions with physical access to computer or equipment used for access to the Nevada Criminal Justice Information System or the National Crime Information Center.
- Do not use salary history in Nevada, and give the range when it is owed. NRS 613.133 binds public and private employers with no headcount, covers employment agencies, and requires the wage or salary range for an applicant who has completed an interview and for an employee who has applied for a promotion or transfer, interviewed for it or been offered it, and asked.
- Read the credit-check section by content, not by the name of the report. NRS 613.570 covers credit information and NRS 613.550 confines that term to information related to credit, so a criminal-history report is outside it. If a credit component runs, document the NRS 613.580 basis, including the reasonably-related list that covers money and assets, trade secrets, managerial or supervisory responsibility, personal information of others and licensed gaming.
- Do not refuse to hire on a positive pre-employment marijuana screen. NRS 613.132(1) bars it, subject to the exceptions at (2) and the second-test right at (3), and the exceptions are written around the position rather than around the employer.
- Keep the off-duty product protection and the cannabis chapters apart. NRS 613.333 is a 1991 provision about the lawful use of any product off the premises during nonworking hours, and it carries the 15-employee threshold. NRS 678D.510 preserves a workplace policy and NRS 678C.850 requires only an attempt at reasonable accommodation for a registered cardholder.
- Cite the current cannabis chapters. The NRS table of titles and chapters lists no chapter 453A and no chapter 453D, and the medical and adult-use provisions sit in Title 56 at NRS 678C.850 and NRS 678D.510.
- Handle a sealed Nevada conviction as a restricted record rather than a deleted one. NRS 179.285(1)(a) lets the person answer accordingly to an employment inquiry, subject to NRS 179.301, and the repository states that an order sealing records is not an expungement and that agencies outside Nevada are not bound by the order.
- Route the non-conviction question correctly. NRS 179A.160 removal is an application by the person, and it is unavailable where the disposition was a deferred prosecution, plea bargain or similar, where the person is a fugitive, where the case is under active prosecution, where there is a prior felony or gross misdemeanor conviction, or where there has been a later arrest or charge.
- Do not model Nevada courts county by county. There are 11 judicial districts, three of them hold more than one county and a fourth pairs an independent city with a county, and a record request needs a case number or the parties and filing year. Budget the NRS 19.013 search fee at the Clark County rate for anything before 1990 and route pre-1909 enquiries to Lincoln County.
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What we do
Nevada is a state where the repository door is open and the record behind it is narrow. NRS 179A.103 puts a name-based search service inside the Central Repository, makes a screening service an eligible person by name, accepts a consent form complying with 15 U.S.C. § 1681b(b)2, and lets the firm pass the result to the employer client if it keeps a dissemination log, while subsection 5 fixes the content at convictions only. The file sits at 333 West Nye Lane in Carson City, begins at the 1987 fingerprint record, and excludes the courts, juvenile matters, misdemeanor traffic, licensing records and everything originating outside Nevada. Ban-the-box is a public-sector rule with a final-interview trigger and three record types placed off limits to consideration, and the state's 15-employee threshold does not reach it. Salary history is barred for every employer with no headcount, credit checks are restricted by content rather than by subject, and the privacy chapter takes consumer reporting agencies out of its consumer provisions by name and by federal reference. The courts are 11 judicial districts, three of which cross county lines, and a felony reaches the district court by exclusion from the justice court. Our Nevada work separates the repository response from the court search, states which one answered the question, keeps the consent directed to the employer that designated the service, and treats a sealed conviction as restricted rather than as absent. If your current vendor reports a Nevada non-conviction from the state repository, or applies a county-by-county court model, that is where this shows.
Sources
- NRS ch. 179A, the Central Repository for Nevada Records of Criminal History, including the name-based search service at 179A.103, dissemination at 179A.100, sole use at 179A.110, the dissemination log at 179A.130, fees at 179A.140 and non-conviction removal at 179A.160
- NRS ch. 179, sealing of records after conviction, including the waiting periods at NRS 179.245, the effect of an order at NRS 179.285, reopening at NRS 179.295 and inspection by agencies at NRS 179.301
- NRS ch. 598C, "CONSUMER REPORTING", including the definitions at 598C.020, 598C.060 and 598C.100, the purge duty at 598C.150 and the adverse-action notice at 598C.170
- NRS ch. 613, employment practices, including the public-sector ban-the-box at 613.330(8), the employer definition at 613.310(2), the marijuana screening bar at 613.132, salary history at 613.133, the off-duty product protection at 613.333, lie detector tests at 613.480 to 613.510 and credit checks at 613.520 to 613.600
- NRS ch. 603A, "SECURITY AND PRIVACY OF PERSONAL INFORMATION", including the breach notice to nationwide consumer reporting agencies at 603A.220(6), the consumer reporting agency and Fair Credit Reporting Act exclusions at 603A.338, the employment-context exclusion at 603A.425 and the health data applicability at 603A.490
- NRS ch. 3, district courts, including the 11 judicial districts at NRS 3.010, the family court division at NRS 3.0105, the Second Judicial District bench at NRS 3.012 and 3.0125, the Eighth Judicial District bench at NRS 3.018 and 3.0185 and the chief judge at NRS 3.025
- NRS chs. 2A, 4 and 5, the Court of Appeals, the justice courts and the municipal courts, including the justice court criminal jurisdiction at NRS 4.370(3), the municipal court jurisdiction at NRS 5.050 and the jurisdictional rule-making at NRS 2A.160
- NRS chs. 245 and 284, the county and state employment procedures, including the criminal history trigger and the excluded record types at NRS 245.046 and 284.283 and the unclassified service procedure at NRS 284.281
- Nevada Constitution, article 6, the judicial department, including the court system at section 1 and the district court jurisdiction at section 6
- NRS chs. 678C and 678D, medical and adult-use cannabis under Title 56, including the accommodation provision at NRS 678C.850 and the workplace policy provision at NRS 678D.510
- NRS table of titles and chapters, which lists Title 56, "REGULATION OF CANNABIS", as chapters 678A to 678D and lists no chapter 453A or 453D
- Nevada State Police Records, Communications and Compliance Division, Frequently Asked Questions, for the content of a Nevada criminal history record, the 1987 fingerprint boundary, the effect of a refused waiver, the deferred sentence answer, the 30 calendar day processing target and the 6 to 8 week civil applicant approval, read live
- Nevada State Police Records, Communications and Compliance Division, Information on the Sealing of Nevada Criminal History Records, for the statement that sealing is not an expungement, the access restriction on a sealed record, the position of agencies outside Nevada and the 2 to 4 month sealing timescale, read live
- Nevada State Police Records, Communications and Compliance Division, Fees & Information (Fingerprints), for the fee schedule and the civil applicant approval time, read live
- Eighth Judicial District Court, Clark County, Records Search and Viewing, for the record date range, the case number requirement, the NRS 19.013 search and copy fees, certification and exemplification charges, the sealed case rule and the Lincoln County boundary, read live
- Route note: www.leg.state.nv.us returns HTTP 403 to this environment on every path tried, including with a browser User-Agent, over plain HTTP and over HTTPS, with a 1,747-byte block page; nvcourts.gov returns HTTP 403 with a Cloudflare interstitial. Every Nevada statute quoted here was read through the r.jina.ai reader proxy against the same URLs, returning live pages carrying a [Rev. 4/15/2026 11:25:56 AM--2025] stamp, with the earlier chapter reads confirmed against Internet Archive raw replay discovered through the CDX API. The proxy returned a Cloudflare interstitial for these hosts earlier in this project and worked for this pass, which is a change in the record rather than a failure. www.rccd.nv.gov, www.dps.nv.gov and www.clarkcountycourts.us were reachable live and were read directly. library.municode.com serves a JavaScript shell that renders no code text, and cityofhenderson.com, cityofnorthlasvegas.com and codelibrary.amlegal.com return 403, so no Nevada municipal code was read.
Last reviewed 23 September 2026. This page is checked on a quarterly cycle, because state screening law changes every legislative session. Nothing here is legal advice; see the terms of use.