Nevada Code § 179.259

Sealing records after completion of program for reentry: Persons eligible; procedure; order; inspection of sealed records by certain entities
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1. Except as otherwise provided in
subsections 3, 4 and 5, 4 years after an eligible person completes a program
for reentry, the court may order sealed all documents, papers and exhibits in
the eligible persons record, minute book entries and entries on dockets, and
other documents relating to the case in the custody of such other agencies and
officers as are named in the courts order. The court may order those records
sealed without a hearing unless the Division of Parole and Probation of the
Department of Public Safety petitions the court, for good cause shown, not to
seal the records and requests a hearing thereon.
2. If the court orders sealed the record
of an eligible person, the court shall send a copy of the order to each agency
or officer named in the order. Each such agency or officer shall notify the
court in writing of its compliance with the order.
3. A professional licensing board is
entitled, for the purpose of determining suitability for a license or liability
to discipline for misconduct, to inspect and to copy from a record sealed
pursuant to this section.
4. The Division of Insurance of the
Department of Business and Industry is entitled, for the purpose of determining
suitability for a license or liability to discipline for misconduct, to inspect
and to copy from a record sealed pursuant to this section.
5. A person may not petition the court to
seal records relating to a conviction of a crime against a child or a sexual
offense.
6. As used in this section:
(a) Crime against a child has the meaning
ascribed to it in NRS 179D.0357 .
(b) Eligible person means a person who has:
(1) Successfully completed a program for
reentry, which the person participated in pursuant to NRS 209.4886 , 209.4888 , 213.625 or 213.632 ; and
(2) Been convicted of a single offense
which was punishable as a felony and which did not involve the use or
threatened use of force or violence against the victim. For the purposes of
this subparagraph, multiple convictions for an offense punishable as a felony
shall be deemed to constitute a single offense if those offenses arose out of
the same transaction or occurrence.
(c) Program for reentry means:
(1) A correctional program for reentry of
offenders and parolees into the community that is established by the Director
of the Department of Corrections pursuant to NRS
209.4887 ; or
(2) A judicial program for reentry of
offenders and parolees into the community that is established in a judicial
district pursuant to NRS 209.4883 .
(d) Sexual offense has the meaning ascribed to
it in NRS 179.245 .

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