Nevada SB 318 (2019) limits cooperation with ICE detainers, barring local law enforcement from holding people past their release date solely on civil immigration warrants. Las Vegas and LVMPD comply with the partial-sanctuary framework but still honor judicial warrants.
Nevada is not a full sanctuary state, but SB 318 (2019), codified in NRS 289, restricts how local police and jails interact with federal immigration enforcement. Officers may not detain individuals past their scheduled release based solely on an ICE administrative detainer (Form I-247), nor can they perform stops or arrests purely for suspected civil immigration violations. They retain authority to honor judicial warrants signed by a federal judge and to share information when otherwise permitted by NRS 239B.030. LVMPD and the City of Las Vegas operate under this framework — neither has declared full sanctuary, but neither holds inmates beyond release on ICE detainers alone.
Officers or agencies that detain past release on civil detainers risk civil-rights lawsuits under 42 USC 1983 and state-tort exposure. Conversely, federal funding can be conditioned on cooperation, though Trump-era restrictions have faced legal challenges.
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