Nevada Code § 178.5698

Information concerning release of defendant and disposition of case provided upon request; court to inform and provide documentation to certain persons of their right to be informed of release of offender from prison in certain cases; when and whom warden must inform of release of offender from prison
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1. The prosecuting attorney, sheriff or
chief of police shall, upon the request of a victim or witness, inform the
victim or witness:
(a) When the defendant is released from custody
at any time before or during the trial, including, without limitation, when the
defendant is released pending trial or subject to electronic supervision;
(b) If the defendant is so released, the amount
of bail required, if any; and
(c) Of the final disposition of the criminal case
in which the victim or witness was directly involved.
2. A request for information pursuant to
subsection 1 must be made:
(a) In writing; or
(b) By telephone through an automated or
computerized system of notification, if such a system is available.
3. If an offender is convicted of a sexual
offense or an offense involving the use or threatened use of force or violence
against the victim, the court shall provide:
(a) To each witness, documentation that includes:
(1) A form advising the witness of the
right to be notified pursuant to subsection 5;
(2) The form that the witness must use to
request notification in writing; and
(3) The form or procedure that the witness
must use to provide a change of address after a request for notification has
been submitted.
(b) To each person listed in subsection 4,
documentation that includes:
(1) A form advising the person of the
right to be notified pursuant to subsection 5 or 6 and NRS 176.015 , 176A.630 , 178.4715 , 209.392 , 209.3923 , 209.3925 , 209.429 , 209.521 , 213.010 , 213.040 , 213.095 and 213.131 or NRS 213.10915 ;
(2) The forms that the person must use to
request notification; and
(3) The forms or procedures that the
person must use to provide a change of address after a request for notification
has been submitted.
4. The following persons are entitled to
receive documentation pursuant to paragraph (b) of subsection 3:
(a) A person against whom the offense is
committed.
(b) A person who is injured as a direct result of
the commission of the offense.
(c) If a person listed in paragraph (a) or (b) is
under the age of 18 years, each parent or guardian who is not the offender.
(d) Each surviving spouse, parent and child of a
person who is killed as a direct result of the commission of the offense.
(e) A relative of a person listed in paragraphs
(a) to (d), inclusive, if the relative requests in writing to be provided with
the documentation.
5. Except as otherwise provided in
subsection 6, if the offense was a felony and the offender is imprisoned, the
warden of the prison shall, if the victim or witness so requests in writing and
provides a current address, notify the victim or witness at that address when
the offender is released from the prison.
6. If the offender was convicted of a
violation of subsection 3 of NRS 200.366 or a violation of subsection 1, paragraph (a) of subsection 2 or subparagraph
(2) of paragraph (b) of subsection 2 of NRS
200.508 , the warden of the prison shall notify:
(a) The immediate family of the victim if the
immediate family provides their current address;
(b) Any member of the victims family related
within the third degree of consanguinity, if the member of the victims family
so requests in writing and provides a current address; and
(c) The victim, if the victim will be 18 years of
age or older at the time of the release and has provided a current address,
before the
offender is released from prison.
7. The warden must not be held responsible
for any injury proximately caused by the failure to give any notice required
pursuant to this section if no address was provided to the warden or if the
address provided is inaccurate or not current.
8. As used in this section:
(a) Immediate family means any adult relative
of the victim living in the victims household.
(b) Sexual offense means:
(1) Sexual assault pursuant to NRS 200.366 ;
(2) Statutory sexual seduction pursuant to NRS 200.368 ;
(3) Battery with intent to commit sexual
assault pursuant to NRS 200.400 ;
(4) An offense involving child sexual
abuse material pursuant to NRS 200.710 to 200.730 , inclusive;
(5) Fertility fraud pursuant to paragraph
(a) of subsection 1 of NRS 200.975 ;
(6) Incest pursuant to NRS 201.180 ;
(7) Open or gross lewdness pursuant to NRS 201.210 ;
(8) Indecent or obscene exposure pursuant
to NRS 201.220 ;
(9) Lewdness with a child pursuant to NRS 201.230 ;
(10) Sexual penetration of a dead human
body pursuant to NRS 201.450 ;
(11) Sexual conduct between certain
employees of a school or volunteers at a school and a pupil pursuant to NRS 201.540 ;
(12) Sexual conduct between certain
employees of a college or university and a student pursuant to NRS 201.550 ;
(13) Luring a child or a person with
mental illness pursuant to NRS 201.560 ,
if punished as a felony;
(14) An offense that, pursuant to a
specific statute, is determined to be sexually motivated; or
(15) An attempt to commit an offense
listed in this paragraph.

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