Nevada § 239.010 - Public books and public records open to inspection; confidential information in public books and records; copyrighted books and records; copies to be prepared by governmental entity and provided in electronic format unless other medium requested

chapter 391, Statutes of Nevada 2013 and unless otherwise declared by law to be confidential,

all public books and public records of a governmental entity must be open at all times

during office hours to inspection by any person, and may be fully copied or an abstract

or memorandum may be prepared from those public books and public records. Any such copies, abstracts or memoranda may be used to supply the general public

with copies, abstracts or memoranda of the records or may be used in any other way

to the advantage of the governmental entity or of the general public. This section does not supersede or in any manner affect the federal laws governing

copyrights or enlarge, diminish or affect in any other manner the rights of a person

in any written book or record which is copyrighted pursuant to federal law. 2. A governmental entity may not reject a book or record which is copyrighted solely

because it is copyrighted. 3. A governmental entity that has legal custody or control of a public book or record

shall not deny a request made pursuant to subsection 1 to inspect or copy or receive

a copy of a public book or record on the basis that the requested public book or record

contains information that is confidential if the governmental entity can redact, delete,

conceal or separate, including, without limitation, electronically, the confidential

information from the information included in the public book or record that is not

otherwise confidential. 4. If requested, a governmental entity shall provide a copy of a public record in

an electronic format by means of an electronic medium. Nothing in this subsection requires a governmental entity to provide a copy of a

public record in an electronic format or by means of an electronic medium if: (a) The public record: (1) Was not created or prepared in an electronic format; and (2) Is not available in an electronic format; or (b) Providing the public record in an electronic format or by means of an electronic

medium would: (1) Give access to proprietary software; or (2) Require the production of information that is confidential and that cannot be

redacted, deleted, concealed or separated from information that is not otherwise confidential. 5. An officer, employee or agent of a governmental entity who has legal custody or

control of a public record: (a) Shall not refuse to provide a copy of that public record in the medium that is

requested because the officer, employee or agent has already prepared or would prefer

to provide the copy in a different medium. (b) Except as otherwise provided in NRS 239.030 , shall, upon request, prepare the copy of the public record and shall not require

the person who has requested the copy to prepare the copy himself or herself.