Nevada Code § 388.880

Immunity from civil liability for reporting threat of violence against school official, school employee or pupil; exceptions
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1. Except as otherwise provided in
subsection 2, if any person who knows or has reasonable cause to believe that
another person has made a threat of violence against a school official, school
employee or pupil reports in good faith that threat of violence to a school
official, teacher, school police officer, local law enforcement agency or
potential victim of the violence that is threatened, the person who makes the
report is immune from civil liability for any act or omission relating to that
report. Such a person is not immune from civil liability for any other act or
omission committed by the person as a part of, in connection with or as a
principal, accessory or conspirator to the violence, regardless of the nature
of the other act or omission.
2. The provisions of this section do not
apply to a person who:
(a) Is acting in his or her professional or
occupational capacity and is required to make a report pursuant to NRS 200.5093 , 392.303 or 432B.220 .
(b) Is required to make a report concerning the
commission of a violent or sexual offense against a child pursuant to NRS 202.882 .
3. As used in this section:
(a) Reasonable cause to believe means, in light
of all the surrounding facts and circumstances which are known, a reasonable
person would believe, under those facts and circumstances, that an act,
transaction, event, situation or condition exists, is occurring or has
occurred.
(b) School employee means a licensed or
unlicensed person who is employed by:
(1) A board of trustees of a school
district pursuant to NRS 391.100 or 391.281 ; or
(2) The governing body of a charter
school.
(c) School official means:
(1) A member of the board of trustees of a
school district.
(2) A member of the governing body of a
charter school.
(3) An administrator employed by the board
of trustees of a school district or the governing body of a charter school.
(d) Teacher means a person employed by the:
(1) Board of trustees of a school district
to provide instruction or other educational services to pupils enrolled in
public schools of the school district.
(2) Governing body of a charter school to
provide instruction or other educational services to pupils enrolled in the
charter school.

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