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Nevada police may be tracking your phone’s location without a warrant. Here’s how.

Nevada quietly signed an agreement earlier this year with a company that collects location data from cellphones, allowing police to track a device virtually in real time — all without a warrant.

 

A Nevada judge ruled ICE can’t lock up everyone facing deportation. Here’s what it means.

The Trump administration reversed decades of immigration policy last summer when it determined that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) must lock up nearly everyone facing deportation, even if they’ve lived in the country for decades and have no criminal record.

 

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License plate reader cameras abound in Nevada. The state has no laws to regulate them.

At least five cities and counties in the state — including Clark County, Reno and Sparks — have penned agreements with an automated license plate reader company called Flock Safety in the past three years.

 

Another ethics complaint has been filed against Nevada Lt. Gov. Stavros Anthony

An ethics complaint filed against the Nevada lieutenant governor last week alleges he has been using his office’s social media account to promote his book for his personal financial benefit, running afoul of state ethics rules.

 

Nevada lawmakers question claim that inmate overdoses are driving prison overtime costs

Officials from the Nevada Department of Corrections (NDOC) said that skyrocketing overdoses are one of the main drivers behind overtime expenses that have cost the state more than $18 million annually, although lawmakers expressed some skepticism at that explanation for prisons’ chronic budget overr

 

Once viewed as a tourism boon, cannabis lounges’ future in Nevada is hazy

Cannabis lounges were once seen as a promising new frontier in Nevada’s legal marijuana industry — the bedrock of a new Amsterdam-like weed tourism district in a Sin City on the cutting edge of hospitality innovation.

 

Nevada taking long-delayed leaps toward serving people who speak limited English

After years of struggling to secure funding, Nevada agencies have begun to take steps to implement language services — known as “language access plans” — for those with limited English proficiency as required by state and federal law.