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AB 420

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2025-2026 Regular Session Introduced by Elijah Behnke and 6 co-sponsors

Requires annual public reports by school districts on use of force by school police, detailing incident types, locations, demographics, and officer info.

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Bill Summary · AB 420

AB 420 (BDR 34‑538) — Summary (Education: school police use of force reporting)

Status: Chapter 319 (2025). Effective date: July 1, 2025.
Primary sponsor: Assemblymember Cecelia González.

Purpose / intent

Require greater transparency about use‑of‑force incidents involving school police officers by creating an annual, publicly posted report that aggregates data on incidents where batons, chemical agents, or electronic stun devices were used during the prior school year.

Key provisions

  • Adds a new section to NRS Chapter 391 requiring school districts that employ school police officers and charter schools that contract for school police services (per NRS 388A.384) to prepare and publish, on their website, an annual report on use of force by school police officers for the immediately preceding school year.
  • Required report content:
    • Counts of incidents involving each of: baton, chemical agent, and electronic stun device.
    • For each incident type: location (on school grounds or other), whether it occurred during the school day or at a school‑sponsored activity/event.
    • Demographic information (age, race, gender, ethnicity) of persons upon whom force was used — reported in the aggregate and excluding personally identifiable information.
    • Officer information: rank and years employed for officers involved — but the requirement to report rank/years applies only to reports for districts that employ more than 75 school police officers.
  • Definitions included in the statute:
    • “Baton”: cylindrical instrument designed to deliver blunt force contact or a strike.
    • “Chemical agent”: e.g., tear gas, pepper spray, pepper balls, oleoresin capsicum — chemicals that rapidly produce sensory irritation or disabling effects that dissipate after exposure ends.
    • “Electronic stun device”: device that emits an electrical charge (by projectile, physical contact, or other means) intended to temporarily or permanently disable.
    • “School police officer”: a peace officer employed by a board of trustees of a school district or providing services to a charter school under a contract with a district board.
  • First reporting cycle: the first report is due on or before the first day of the 2026–2027 school year and must contain required information for the 2025–2026 school year.
  • Privacy: reports must be aggregated and not include personally identifiable information.

Who is affected

  • Local: school districts that employ school police officers and charter schools that contract for school police services. Incidental administrative and data‑publication workload and possible fiscal impact on local governments.
  • Individuals: pupils and other persons involved in reported incidents; school police officers (aggregate data about rank/tenure reported in certain districts).
  • Public: community members gain access to annual use‑of‑force data via district/charter websites.

Procedural / timeline notes

  • Becomes effective July 1, 2025.
  • First report due by start of 2026–2027 school year (covering 2025–2026).
  • Fiscal notes were prepared (state and local impact may exist); committees amended the bill multiple times to narrow scope (deleting earlier provisions that would have created a voter grant program and altering definitions and reporting mechanics).

Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.

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