Nevada § 179A.175 - Establishing program; adoption of guidelines for collection of statistical data; report; data to be used only for research or statistical purposes; data to be made available to public; data to be provided to Federal Bureau of Investigation

§ 179A.175. Establishing program; adoption of guidelines for collection of statistical data; report; data to be used only for research or statistical purposes; data to be made available to public; data to be provided to Federal Bureau of Investigation

1. The Director of the Department shall establish within the Central Repository a

program for reporting crimes that manifest evidence of prejudice based on race, color,

religion, national origin, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation or gender

identity or expression. 2. The program must be designed to collect, compile and analyze statistical data about

crimes that manifest evidence of prejudice based on race, color, religion, national

origin, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation or gender identity or expression. The Director shall adopt guidelines for the collection of the statistical data,

including, but not limited to, the criteria to establish the presence of prejudice

and the manner in which the data must be reported to the Central Repository. 3. The Central Repository shall include in any appropriate report an independent section

relating solely to the analysis of crimes that manifest evidence of prejudice based

on race, color, religion, national origin, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation

or gender identity or expression. 4. Data acquired pursuant to this section must be used only for research or statistical

purposes and must not contain any information that may reveal the identity of an individual

victim of a crime. 5. The Central Repository shall make all data acquired pursuant to this section and

data regarding any prosecution of a violation of NRS 207.185 and any sentence imposed pursuant to NRS 193.1675 available to the public. 6. The Central Repository shall ensure that the data acquired pursuant to this section

is provided to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for inclusion in the annual Hate

Crime Statistics report of the Uniform Crime Reporting Program. 7. As used in this section, “ gender identity or expression ” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 193.0148 .