Nevada legislators not inclined to open their communications to the public
A series of kerfuffles involving politicians’ emails has sparked a nationwide call for elected officials to embrace transparency. But members of the Nevada Legislature show no intention of opening their records to the public.
The Legislature tells governmental agencies statewide what is and is not a public record. But members of the Legislature are exempt from those very laws.
Unlike their municipal counterparts, state legislators have little to no public paper trail. Their emails, appointment calendars that detail which lobbyist or lawmaker they meet and all other forms of communications are not bound by Nevada’s open records rules.
State Sen. Tick Segerblom, D-Las Vegas, asked to have a bill drafted for the 2017 session that, in part, would have made legislators emails and calendars — during the biennial session — public record. But the Legislative Counsel Bureau, the legislators’ attorney, nixed the plan.
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