News & Commentary

Nov 14, 2025

Resorts back Lombardo crime bill containing key requests from gaming industry

The Nevada Resort Association on Thursday defended the provisions of Gov. Joe Lombardo’s crime bill that would allow courts to ban certain criminal offenders from the resort corridor for up to a year.

Nevada legislative building in Carson City
Nov 13, 2025

Lawman-turned-governor revives his failed crime bill

During the special legislative session, which starts this week, Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo is asking lawmakers to do what they didn’t do during the regular session earlier this year: pass a crime bill he backed.

Governor Joe Lombardo at a podium looking up at the camera
Apr 09, 2025

Lombardo seeks to turn back time on criminal justice reforms

Legislation touted Tuesday by Gov. Joe Lombardo and law enforcement officials from Northern Nevada would turn back the clock on modest reforms passed by lawmakers with bipartisan support in 2019.

Nevada State Senate
Mar 05, 2025

If feds violate civil rights in rounding up migrants here, NV police could be left holding the bag

Federal agents might be able to get away with violating constitutional rights, but Nevada law enforcement agencies can’t.

LVMPD Police Car
Feb 14, 2024

Sparks clarifies laws punishing unhoused for sleeping on sidewalks, in cars as criminal offenses

By Michael Lyle, Nevada CurrentThis piece was originally published in the Nevada Current.

Sparks, Nevada sign
Nov 16, 2023

Nevada settles lawsuits with injured inmate firefighters, stripsearched woman

This piece was originally published by the Nevada Current by April Corbin Girnus. 

Client, Rebecca Leavitt. She is a white woman with blonde hair, blue eyes, and is wearing a blue, pink, and white checkered collared shirt. She is looking off to the side and has tears down her face.
May 16, 2023

Mass Incarceration Won't End the Opioid Crisis

Your legislators need to hear from their constituents. Now is the time to use your voice!

Prisoners reach through the metal bars of their cells.
Feb 14, 2023

Proposed Nevada bill could remove marijuana’s status as a ‘controlled substance’

By Jaclyn Schultz, FOX5. 

There's nothing criminal about a plant that's medicinal
Jan 20, 2023

To Root Out Racism in the Criminal Legal System, We Can’t Fear Too Much Justice

The landmark California Racial Justice Act is allowing our clients to challenge their death penalty prosecutions in Riverside County.

Protest sign that says, "sick, tired and angry of not feeling safe."