NRS 179A.450 - Creation; contents; submission of report to Legislature; confidentiality of data.

NV Rev Stat § 179A.450 (2019) (N/A)
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1. The Repository for Information Concerning Crimes Against Older Persons or Vulnerable Persons is hereby created within the Central Repository.

2. The Repository for Information Concerning Crimes Against Older Persons or Vulnerable Persons must contain a complete and systematic record of all reports of the abuse, neglect, exploitation, isolation or abandonment of older persons or vulnerable persons in this State. The record must be prepared in a manner approved by the Director of the Department and must include, without limitation, the following information:

(a) All incidents that are reported to state and local law enforcement agencies and the Aging and Disability Services Division of the Department of Health and Human Services.

(b) All cases that were investigated and the type of such cases.

3. On or before July 1 of each year, the Director of the Department shall prepare and submit a report to the Director of the Legislative Counsel Bureau for transmittal to the Legislature that sets forth statistical data on the abuse, neglect, exploitation, isolation or abandonment of older persons or vulnerable persons.

4. The data and findings generated pursuant to this section must not contain information that may reveal the identity of an individual victim or a person accused of the abuse, neglect, exploitation, isolation or abandonment of older persons or vulnerable persons.

5. As used in this section:

(a) “Abandonment” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 200.5092.

(b) “Abuse” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 200.5092.

(c) “Exploitation” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 200.5092.

(d) “Isolation” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 200.5092.

(e) “Neglect” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 200.5092.

(f) “Older person” means a person who is 60 years of age or older.

(g) “Vulnerable person” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 200.5092.

(Added to NRS by 2007, 746; A 2009, 2447; 2011, 82; 2015, 826; 2017, 2685; 2019, 3473)