NRS433B.183. Division facility required to conduct investigations of employees; submission of fingerprints; limitation on contact with children.

      1.  A division facility which provides residential treatment to children shall secure from appropriate law enforcement agencies information on the background and personal history of an employee of the facility to determine whether the employee has been convicted of:

      (a) Murder, voluntary manslaughter or mayhem;

      (b) Any other felony involving the use of a firearm or other deadly weapon;

      (c) Assault with intent to kill or to commit sexual assault or mayhem;

      (d) Sexual assault, statutory sexual seduction, incest, lewdness, indecent exposure or any other sexually related crime;

      (e) Abuse or neglect of a child or contributory delinquency;

      (f) A violation of any federal or state law regulating the possession, distribution or use of any controlled substance or any dangerous drug as defined in chapter 454 of NRS;

      (g) Abuse, neglect, exploitation or isolation of older persons or vulnerable persons, including, without limitation, a violation of any provision of NRS 200.5091 to 200.50995, inclusive, or a law of any other jurisdiction that prohibits the same or similar conduct; or

      (h) Any offense involving fraud, theft, embezzlement, burglary, robbery, fraudulent conversion or misappropriation of property within the immediately preceding 7 years.

      2.  An employee must submit to the Division two complete sets of fingerprints and written authorization to forward those fingerprints to the Central Repository for Nevada Records of Criminal History for submission to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for its report.

      3.  The Division may exchange with the Central Repository or the Federal Bureau of Investigation any information concerning the fingerprints submitted.

      4.  The Division may charge an employee investigated pursuant to this section for the reasonable cost of that investigation.

      5.  An employee who is required to submit to an investigation required pursuant to this section shall not have contact with a child in a division facility without supervision before the investigation of the background and personal history of the employee has been conducted.

      6.  The division facility shall conduct an investigation of each employee pursuant to this section at least once every 5 years after the initial investigation.

      (Added to NRS by 2011, 3554)