§ 8.36.050. Records confidential.

(a)

The statements, photographs and fingerprints provided for in this chapter shall at all times be kept by the chief of police in a file separate and apart from other files and records maintained and kept by the office of the chief of police, and shall not be open to inspection by the public, or by any person other than a regular member of the police department. Any such photograph, or duplicates thereof, may be exhibited to persons other than members of the police department for the purpose of assisting in identifying perpetrators of any crime. Copies of such statements, photographs and fingerprints may be transmitted to the sheriff of any county in the state, to the head of any organized police department of any municipality in the state, or to the head of any department of the state engaged in the enforcement of any criminal law of this state, or to the head of any federal law enforcement agency, or to any sheriff or chief of police of a municipality, or to the head of any other law enforcement agency of the state in any state or territory outside of the state, when request is made, in writing, by such sheriff or other head of a law enforcement agency asking for the record of a certain person named therein, or for the record of a person whose photograph or fingerprints reasonably correspond with the photographs or fingerprints submitted with such request, and stating that such record is deemed necessary for the use of such law enforcement officer or agency, in or concerning the investigation of any crime, or any person who is accused of committing a crime, or any crime which is reported to have been committed, and further stating that the record will be used only for such purpose.

(b)

Nothing contained in this chapter shall prevent the chief of police from furnishing to the sheriff of any county, the chief of police of any municipality, or the head of any other law enforcement agency which maintains any system of registration of convicted persons copies of the statements required to be filed under the provisions of this chapter, together with photographs and fingerprints procured by him, and it is hereby made the duty of the chief of police to arrange for the exchange of such information.

(Code 1966, § 11.32.050)

State law reference

Statements, fingerprints confidential, NRS 179C.170.