75th Session

Tucked into proposals to solve Nevada’s budget crisis were thinly-veiled attacks on the Constitution and Nevada’s libertarian ethos. Some measures were illusory: they wouldn’t have actually solved Nevada’s financial woes because they would have shifted the financial burden from one part of the state’s system to another. While the ACLU of Nevada takes no position related to specific budget allocations of the state, we encouraged the Legislature to address policy shortcomings that marginalize our most at-risk youth and deny them access to education. Most notably, we urged the Legislature to recognize that Nevadans’ civil rights and rights to free speech and to be free of governmental surveillance are not for sale. We asked our elected officials to soundly reject the following provisions as unwise affronts to our civil liberties and civil rights.