1. Each applicant for employment or appointment pursuant to this section or employee, except a teacher or other person licensed by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, must, before beginning his or her employment or appointment and at least once every 5 years thereafter, submit to the school district:

(a) A full set of the applicant’s or employee’s fingerprints and written permission authorizing the school district to forward the fingerprints to the Central Repository for Nevada Records of Criminal History for its report on the criminal history of the applicant or employee and for submission to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for its report on the criminal history of the applicant or employee.

(b) Written authorization for the board of trustees of the school district to obtain any information concerning the applicant or employee that may be available from the Statewide Central Registry and any equivalent registry maintained by a governmental entity in a jurisdiction in which the applicant or employee has resided within the immediately preceding 5 years.

2. In conducting an investigation into the background of an applicant or employee, a school district may cooperate with any appropriate law enforcement agency to obtain information relating to the criminal history of the applicant or employee, including, without limitation, any record of warrants for the arrest of or applications for protective orders against the applicant or employee.

3. The board of trustees of a school district may use a substantiated report of the abuse or neglect of a child, as defined in NRS 392.281, or a violation of NRS 201.540, 201.560, 392.4633 or 394.366 obtained from the Statewide Central Registry or an equivalent registry maintained by a governmental agency in another jurisdiction:

(a) In making determinations concerning assignments, requiring retraining, imposing discipline, hiring or termination; and

(b) In any proceedings to which the report is relevant, including, without limitation, an action for trespass or a restraining order.

4. The board of trustees of a school district:

(a) May accept any gifts, grants and donations to carry out the provisions of subsections 1 and 2.

(b) May not be held liable for damages resulting from any action of the board of trustees authorized by subsection 2 or 3.

5. The board of trustees of a school district may employ or appoint persons to serve as school police officers. If the board of trustees of a school district employs or appoints persons to serve as school police officers, the board of trustees shall employ a law enforcement officer to serve as the chief of school police who is supervised by the superintendent of schools of the school district. The chief of school police shall supervise each person appointed or employed by the board of trustees as a school police officer, including any school police officer that provides services to a charter school pursuant to a contract entered into with the board of trustees pursuant to NRS 388A.384. In addition, persons who provide police services pursuant to subsection 6 or 7 shall be deemed school police officers.

6. The board of trustees of a school district in a county that has a metropolitan police department created pursuant to chapter 280 of NRS may contract with the metropolitan police department for the provision and supervision of police services in the public schools within the jurisdiction of the metropolitan police department and on property therein that is owned by the school district and on property therein that is owned or occupied by a charter school if the board of trustees has entered into a contract with the charter school for the provision of school police officers pursuant to NRS 388A.384. If a contract is entered into pursuant to this subsection, the contract must make provision for the transfer of each school police officer employed by the board of trustees to the metropolitan police department. If the board of trustees of a school district contracts with a metropolitan police department pursuant to this subsection, the board of trustees shall, if applicable, cooperate with appropriate local law enforcement agencies within the school district for the provision and supervision of police services in the public schools within the school district, including, without limitation, any charter school with which the school district has entered into a contract for the provision of school police officers pursuant to NRS 388A.384, and on property owned by the school district and, if applicable, the property owned or occupied by the charter school, but outside the jurisdiction of the metropolitan police department.

7. The board of trustees of a school district in a county that does not have a metropolitan police department created pursuant to chapter 280 of NRS may contract with the sheriff of that county for the provision of police services in the public schools within the school district, including, without limitation, in any charter school with which the board of trustees has entered into a contract for the provision of school police officers pursuant to NRS 388A.384, and on property therein that is owned by the school district and, if applicable, the property owned or occupied by the charter school.

8. The board of trustees of a school district shall ensure that each school police officer receives training in the prevention of suicide before beginning his or her service as a school police officer.

[332:32:1956] — (NRS A 1967, 450; 1971, 175; 1975, 614; 1979, 871, 1603; 1985, 287; 1987, 1000, 1481; 1989, 630; 1993, 2531; 1995, 1910; 1999, 3462; 2001, 2482; 2003, 2848; 2003, 19th Special Session, 72; 2015, 1737, 2100, 3827; 2017, 2080, 3155; 2019, 1767) — (Substituted in revision for part of NRS 391.100)