NRS179A.175. Establishing Program; adoption of guidelines for collection of statistical data; report; data to be used only for research or statistical purposes.

      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.

      3.  The Central Repository shall include in its annual report to the Governor pursuant to subsection 6 of NRS 179A.075, and in any other 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.  As used in this section, “gender identity or expression” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 193.0148.

      (Added to NRS by 1995, 2706; A 2013, 65)