Nev. legislators exempt from public records rules
By Colton Lochhead, Las Vegas Review-Journal
A series of kerfuffles involving politicians’ emails has sparked a nationwide call for elected officials to embrace transparency. But members of the Nevada Legislature show no intention of opening their records to the public.
The Legislature tells governmental agencies statewide what is and is not a public record. But members of the Legislature are exempt from those very laws.
Unlike their municipal counterparts, state legislators have little to no public paper trail. Their emails, appointment calendars that detail which lobbyist or lawmaker they meet and all other forms of communications are not bound by Nevada’s open records rules.