Nevada § 62E.513 - Commitment of child to regional facility for treatment and rehabilitation of children or facility for detention of children: Screening required; exception; time and method for conducting screening; report of commercial sexual exploitation to agency which provides child welfare services

§ 62E.513. Commitment of child to regional facility for treatment and rehabilitation of children or facility for detention of children: Screening required; exception; time and method for conducting screening; report of commercial sexual exploitation to agency which provides child welfare services

1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 5, each child who is adjudicated delinquent

and committed by the juvenile court to a regional facility for the treatment and rehabilitation

of children or state facility for the detention of children or ordered by the juvenile

court to be placed in a facility for the detention of children pursuant to NRS 62E.710 must be screened to determine whether the child: (a) Is in need of mental health services; (b) Has an alcohol or other substance use disorder; or (c) Is a victim of commercial sexual exploitation. 2. The facility to which the child is committed or in which the child is placed shall: (a) Cause the screening required pursuant to subsection 1 to be conducted as soon

as practicable after the child has been committed or placed in the facility; and (b) Additionally screen each child committed to, or placed under the custody of, the

facility to determine whether the child is in need of mental health services or has

an alcohol or other substance use disorder once every 6 months or when significant

changes to the child's case plan developed pursuant to NRS 62E.507 or 62E.525 , as applicable, are made. 3. The facility to which the child is committed or in which the child is placed shall

report the commercial sexual exploitation of the child to an agency which provides

child welfare services as soon as practicable after conducting the screening required

by subsection 1 if the results of the screening indicate that the child is a victim

of commercial sexual exploitation. 4. The method for conducting the screening required pursuant to: (a) Paragraph (a) or (b) of subsection 1 must satisfy the requirements of NRS 62E.516 . (b) Paragraph (c) of subsection 1 must: (1) Satisfy the requirements of NRS 62E.516 ; and (2) Be reliable and valid for identifying whether a child who is the same age as the

child to whom the requirement applies is a victim of commercial sexual exploitation. 5. The requirement prescribed by paragraph (c) of subsection 1 does not apply if the

method for conducting the screening is not reliable and valid for identifying whether

a child who is the same age as the child to whom the requirement applies is a victim

of commercial sexual exploitation. 6. If a facility reports the commercial sexual exploitation of a child pursuant to

subsection 3, the report made pursuant to subsection 3 shall be deemed to be a report

of the commercial sexual exploitation of the child that has been made pursuant to NRS 432C.110 and: (a) The child welfare agency shall act upon the report pursuant to chapter 432C of NRS ; and (b) The report may be used in the same manner as other reports that are made pursuant

to NRS 432C.110 . 7. As used in this section, “ commercial sexual exploitation ” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 432C.050 .