LAS VEGAS TRAFFIC UPDATES LICENSE
Sisolak on Tuesday also signed Senate Bill 219, which removes a court’s authority to suspend a person’s driver’s license or prevent them from applying for one based on an unpaid fine, administrative assessment or other type of fee.Īthar Haseebullah, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada, said Tuesday that the new laws will have a significant effect on Nevadans who are struggling financially. “It really just becomes so all consuming where people are then thrust into the criminal justice system really needlessly.” “We’ve unfortunately seen how quickly a traffic ticket can lead into something so much bigger,” Bertschy added. “This really will make a huge difference,” Washoe County Deputy Public Defender Kendra Bertschy said last week after the bill cleared the final hurdle in the Legislature before heading to Sisolak’s desk.īy avoiding jail time for minor traffic offenses, Bertschy said, “they can maintain their employment, they don’t lose their housing, they don’t lose custody of their kids.” With the new law, Nevada joins 37 other states that have decriminalized minor traffic infractions. This time, the bill faced little resistance in the Legislature and passed with only one “no” vote the Assembly and the Senate. The bill marked the fifth time lawmakers in Nevada had pushed some form legislation to reclassify minor traffic infractions in the last decade.
“The main purpose of this bill is to make sure we are not arresting, we are not incarcerating and we are not branding people as criminals for committing minor traffic violations, whether that’s Nevadans in our own state or tourists that are coming here,” Assemblywoman Rochelle Nguyen, D-Las Vegas, said while presenting the bill in a legislative committee Legislature. When traffic offenses are considered criminal misdemeanors, a court could issue a warrant if the person does not appear in court or fails to pay their fine on time. The reclassification means that jail time would be off the table for a large swath of traffic offenses, such as minor speeding, violating an HOV lane restriction, making an illegal turn, not wearing a seat belt, or driving without a child safety seat.
Steve Sisolak on Tuesday signed a bill into law that decriminalizes most minor traffic offenses, classifying them instead as civil infractions.
(Benjamin Hager/Las Vegas Review-Journal) CITY - Nevada Gov. Parents are also encouraged to monitor their children's online activity to prevent them from becoming victims.The high occupancy vehicle lane is largely empty on Interstate 15 southbound near the East Flamingo Road exit in June 2019 in Las Vegas. Police said parents should talk with their children about the dangers of online chats with strangers. To remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 70. Police urged anyone who has information about the suspects - or about a crime - is asked to contact the department's task force at 70. They all face charges of luring a minor with a computer to engage in sex, police said. The adult suspects solicited them for sex, and a meeting was set up where they were taken into custody.Īuthorities identified the 14 people who were arrested: Police said undercover agents posed as 13- and 14-year-old children.
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