Nevada Supreme Court Upholds Public Disclosure of LV Police Officers' Names and Badges

In a decisive affirmation, the Nevada Supreme Court supported a prior judgment that the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Citizen Review Board may include peace officers’ names and badge numbers on its meeting notices, agendas and related documents. The Las Vegas Police Protective Association had brought suit aiming to block the board’s disclosures, arguing that officers possessed a privacy interest in keeping such identifiers private.

The court held that Nevada’s Open Meeting Law obliges the board to publish the information and that the union failed to prove a viable privacy claim. Moreover, state statutes do not designate officer names or badge numbers as confidential. The ruling reinforces public-access requirements for police oversight bodies in the state.