Nevada Code § 49.293

Law enforcement or public safety personnel and counselor
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1. Any law enforcement or public safety
personnel who participate in a peer support counseling session and any
counselor providing such counseling have a privilege to refuse to disclose, and
to prevent any other person from disclosing, any confidential communications
set forth in NRS 281.805 unless:
(a) The communication is any of the following:
(1) Any explicit threat of suicide;
(2) Any explicit threat of imminent and
serious physical harm or death to a clearly identified or identifiable person;
(3) Any information relating to the abuse
or neglect of a child, older person or vulnerable person, or any information
that is required by law to be reported; or
(4) Any admission of criminal conduct; or
(b) The law enforcement or public safety
personnel who were a party to the communication waive the confidentiality of
the communication.
2. As used in this section, counselor,
law enforcement or public safety personnel and peer support counseling
session have the meanings ascribed to them in NRS 281.805 .

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