The Nevada Department of Public Safety's registry website opens with its conditions of use and the searches behind them: by a sex offender's name, by vehicle, by a listing of registrants within a chosen distance of an address, or by a Nevada ZIP code, with community notification sign up, questions, definitions and statistics alongside. The site states its own limits plainly. The database holds public record information on people classified as sex offenders under Nevada law because of a conviction for a sex related crime or a crime against a child, the department has made no determination that any listed person is currently dangerous, and under NRS 179B.250 only certain information may be given to the public: Tier I offenders whose victims were children, all Tier II and Tier III offenders and juvenile sex offenders adjudicated for certain offenses under NRS 62F appear, while Tier I sex offenders with adult victims are not posted at all. NRS 179B.270 bars using anything from the site for insurance, including health insurance, loans, credit, employment, education, scholarships, housing or any benefit, privilege or service of a business, with civil liability and criminal penalties under NRS 179B.280, 179B.285 and 179B.290 for misuse; the information belongs to the State Criminal History Repository, cataloging or distributing it for business will be prosecuted, no private or commercial enterprise may link to the site, positive identification is impossible without a fingerprint comparison, and the registry asks that doubts be checked with the local police or the court where the information originated.
The registry is run by the Records, Communications and Compliance Division of the Nevada State Police, whose registry page gives the contacts, 333 West Nye Lane, Suite 100, Carson City, NV 89706, 775-684-6262 extension 1, fax 775-687-3237 and SORHelp@dps.state.nv.us, with the Attorney General's office at 775-684-1100 for more, and carries a standing warning to registrants: callers have been posing as police to tell offenders they are non compliant, that a warrant has issued and that a fine must be paid, and neither the department nor local law enforcement collects money from sex offenders for non compliance or warrants, so a registrant who gets such a call gives nothing, meets no one, pays nothing, reports it to local police and checks the compliance status with the registry. Registration itself happens at the sheriff's office, the metropolitan police department or the city police, and the agency that registers offenders in each county is on the Nevada county pages.
- Search: the Department of Public Safety website by name, vehicle, distance from an address or ZIP code; Tier I offenders with child victims, all Tier II and III offenders and certain juveniles are posted, Tier I offenders with adult victims are not.
- Deadlines: initial registration in the jurisdiction of conviction before release or within three business days of sentencing, then in person with the sheriff, metropolitan police or city police within 48 hours of arriving anywhere in Nevada, any change within three business days and a new address within 48 hours.
- Visits: in person at least once a year at Tier I, every 180 days at Tier II and every 90 days at Tier III, with a current set of fingerprints and palm prints and a photograph each time.
- Duration: 15 years at Tier I, 25 years at Tier II and life at Tier III, not counting time in custody; a Tier I registrant with ten clean consecutive years may petition to cut five years, and a Tier III juvenile offender with 25 may petition to end lifetime registration.
Written by SearchSystems.net from Nevada's own systems: the Nevada sex offender registry website conditions of use, the Records, Communications and Compliance Division sex offender registry page, Nevada Revised Statutes chapter 179D on registration of sex offenders and offenders convicted of a crime against a child, each read on October 14, 2026 by the SearchSystems editorial team.
Who registers: sexual offenses and crimes against a child
NRS chapter 179D defines a sex offender as anyone who, after July 1, 1956, is or has been convicted of a sexual offense listed in NRS 179D.097, including a student or worker in Nevada who is not otherwise a resident offender, and a separate class of offenders convicted of a crime against a child under NRS 179D.0357 registers alongside them. The sexual offenses are first degree murder committed in the perpetration of sexual assault or of the sexual abuse or molestation of a child under 14, sexual assault, statutory sexual seduction, battery with intent to commit sexual assault, administering a drug or a controlled substance to enable a listed felony or a crime of violence, abuse of a child involving sexual abuse or exploitation, the child sexual abuse material offenses of NRS 200.710 to 200.730, fertility fraud, incest, open or gross lewdness, indecent or obscene exposure, lewdness with a child, sexual penetration of a dead human body, sexual conduct between school employees or volunteers and a pupil and between college employees and a student, luring a child or a person with mental illness when punished as a felony, sex trafficking, any other offense with an element of a sexual act or sexual conduct with another, attempts and conspiracies, any offense found sexually motivated under NRS 175.547 or 207.193, any offense elsewhere, in a tribal, federal or military court included, that would be a listed offense here, and any offense of a sexual nature elsewhere for which the person had to register where the person lived, studied or worked, juvenile courts included.
Apart from the school and college employee offenses, the term leaves out an offense involving consensual sexual conduct when the victim was an adult not under the offender's custodial authority, or was at least 13 and the offender not more than four years older.
The three tiers
Tier I, under NRS 179D.113, is every offender convicted of a crime against a child or a sex offender who is not Tier II or Tier III. Tier II, under NRS 179D.115, is an offender, short of Tier III, whose crime against a child is punishable by more than a year or whose sexual offense, when committed against a child, was felony luring, sexual child abuse, sex trafficking or prostitution under NRS 201.300, 201.320 or 201.395, a child sexual abuse material offense or any offense comparable to or worse than those in the federal act, an attempt or conspiracy at one, an equivalent offense from another jurisdiction, or any sexual offense committed after the person became a Tier I offender when any of the person's sexual offenses is punishable by more than a year.
Tier III, under NRS 179D.117, is an offender convicted of first degree murder in the course of sexual assault or child molestation, sexual assault, battery with intent to commit sexual assault, sexual child abuse of a victim under 13, kidnapping of a victim under 18 by anyone but a parent or guardian, any sexual offense or crime against a child after becoming a Tier II offender, any offense comparable to or worse than the federal Tier III list, an attempt or conspiracy, or an equivalent offense elsewhere.
Where the conviction falls under the catch all clauses, the sexual act element, the federal comparison or the out of state equivalence, NRS 179D.495 has the Central Repository decide which tier applies.
Registering: the jurisdiction of conviction, then 48 hours
NRS 179D.441 sets three duties, to register initially where convicted, to register where the person lives, studies or works, and to keep the registration current. Under NRS 179D.445 every offender convicted on or after October 1, 2007 registers initially with the local law enforcement agency of the jurisdiction of conviction, before release when sentenced to imprisonment and within three business days of sentencing when not. Under NRS 179D.460 an offender who resides or is present for 48 hours or more in a county or in a city without its own police department is a resident offender and registers with the county sheriff, or with the metropolitan police department where one has jurisdiction, within 48 hours of arriving or establishing a residence, an offender in a city with a police department registers with that department within 48 hours, and a nonresident who becomes a student or worker in Nevada registers with the sheriff, metropolitan or city police of that jurisdiction within 48 hours of starting; the offender appears personally, gives everything requested including fingerprints and a photograph, and signs and dates the record of registration before an officer, who explains the duty to report any change of residence, including a move out of state, or of the primary address of school or work and to register wherever the offender relocates, and who forwards the file, prints and photograph to the Central Repository.
NRS 179D.443 lists what the registrant gives: every name and alias, the Social Security number, the address of every residence or location where the person lives or will live, the name and address of every place of work and every school, the plate number and description of every motor vehicle registered to or frequently driven by the person, and anything else federal law requires, plus a biological specimen for genetic marker analysis when none is already on file, while the agency adds a complete physical description, a current photograph, fingerprints and palm prints, the text of each offense, the criminal history with the dates of all arrests and convictions, the supervision status, the registration status and any outstanding warrants, whether the DNA profile is in CODIS, and the driver's license or identification card number with a photocopy.
NRS 179D.450 has the Central Repository, on notice from a court of a conviction or a juvenile adjudication, open or update the record and alert the local agencies, and has the Department of Corrections or the jail explain every registration duty to an offender before release and have the person sign a form, the failure to do so changing nothing about the duty; on notice from another jurisdiction or the FBI that an offender now lives, studies or works in Nevada, the repository opens a record and gives community notification at once.
Changes within three business days, a new address within 48 hours, and the visits
NRS 179D.447 requires an offender who changes a name, residence, employment or student status to appear in person in at least one jurisdiction of residence, school or work within three business days and give the local agency every detail, which the agency passes at once to the Central Repository and to every other jurisdiction where the person registers. NRS 179D.470 is stricter for addresses: within 48 hours of changing the residence address, including a move out of state, changing the primary address of school or work, or staying more than 30 days somewhere first reported as a stay of less than 30 days, the sex offender gives notice in person to the agency where the person now lives and in person or in writing to the agency where the person formerly lived, with every other update to the record, from a new name, job, volunteer service or driver's license to a new vehicle, and a sex offender with no fixed residence notifies the local agency at least every 30 days of any change in the dwelling giving temporary shelter or the place the person habitually sleeps, a charge for missing that notice being dismissable if the record is updated at once.
NRS 179D.480 adds the scheduled visits: at least once a year for Tier I, every 180 days for Tier II and every 90 days for Tier III, in person in at least one jurisdiction of residence, school or work, where the agency collects a current set of fingerprints and palm prints, a current photograph and every relevant update; a missed visit is reported at once to the local agencies and the United States Attorney General and recorded in the registration, and no visit is required while the offender is incarcerated or confined.
The record of registration itself, described in NRS 179D.151, goes further than the public site, holding the length of time at each address and the expected stay in the county and the state, every employer and volunteer organization, the level of registration and community notification, the court, the statute and the institutions of each conviction, the specific location of the offense, the age, gender, race and description of the victim, and the method of operation, from the acts committed and the means of obtaining access to the injuries, instruments and property involved; under NRS 179D.160 that record is confidential and open only to law enforcement officers and to the offender, and under NRS 179D.170 the Central Repository sends every registration, print, photograph and new address straight to the FBI.
Fifteen years, 25 years or life
Under NRS 179D.490 an offender registers for as long as the person lives or is present in Nevada or is a nonresident student or worker here, within a full period of 15 years at Tier I, 25 years at Tier II and life at Tier III, none of it counting time incarcerated or confined. The period can be shortened by petition to the district court of the county of residence, or of school or work for a nonresident: a Tier I offender who has complied with registration for at least ten consecutive years, and a Tier III offender adjudicated delinquent as a juvenile who has complied for at least 25 consecutive years, counted from the later of the date a registration record was established and the date of release, during which the person was not convicted of any offense punishable by more than a year or of any sexual offense, completed every period of supervised release, probation or parole and completed a sex offender treatment program certified by the state or the United States Attorney General, may file, the court holds a hearing where the offender and any interested person may present witnesses and evidence, and on finding the requirements met the court reduces a Tier I period by five years and reduces a juvenile Tier III offender's lifetime period to the time already served in compliance.
Community notification, and who else is told
NRS 179D.475 makes the Central Repository send every update it receives at once to the United States Attorney General, to the local law enforcement agencies of every jurisdiction where the offender lives, studies or works, to the jurisdictions a move connects, to any agency running employment background checks under the federal child protection law and to any organization, company or person who asks for notification, and makes each local agency pass the updates at once to every school, religious organization, youth organization and public housing authority where the offender lives, studies or works, to every child welfare agency, to volunteer organizations where contact with children or other vulnerable people might occur and, for a Tier III offender, to the members of the public likely to encounter the person, with discretion to notify anyone else it finds warrants it; a requesting organization or school may ask for the updates as often as every five business days.
NRS 179D.570 adds three standing recipients: the Nevada Gaming Control Board, which receives at least monthly the name and identifying information of every offender out of compliance so that it can apply the rules on gaming employees who are registered offenders, the Department of Motor Vehicles for its licensing provisions, and the Department of Human Services, each told whether the offender is in compliance. NRS 179D.850 forbids any disclosure that reveals the name of an individual victim and gives the agencies, the repository and the campus police immunity for the accuracy of a record and for disclosing or failing to disclose it.
Penalties
NRS 179D.550 makes it a category D felony to fail to register with a local law enforcement agency, to fail to report a change of name, residence, employment or student status within the three business days of NRS 179D.447, to give false or misleading information to the Central Repository or a local agency, or otherwise to violate the chapter, and a second or later violation within seven years of the first a category C felony for which the court may neither grant probation nor suspend the sentence; a local agency that knows a registrant in its jurisdiction is out of compliance must take appropriate action to enforce it, which the division's scam warning restates as the plain fact that failure to comply is a felony while no agency ever collects a fine for it by telephone.
Reading a Nevada result
A listing on the department's website means a Tier II or Tier III offender, a Tier I offender whose victim was a child or a juvenile adjudicated for a listed offense, with the tier telling the reader the visit schedule, yearly, every 180 days or every 90 days, and the term, 15, 25 years or life; a Tier I offender with an adult victim is registered but never posted, so the site's silence proves nothing. The sheriff, metropolitan or city police of the place of residence hold the signed record and take every update, the Central Repository in Carson City holds the confidential file and the compliance status, and the district court of the county of residence hears the petition to shorten a term.
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Related Nevada records
Nevada's other public records guides on this site are the Nevada arrest records guide for what a booking makes public, the Nevada inmate search guide for the Department of Corrections and the county jails, the Nevada background check guide for the Central Repository's criminal history checks, and the Nevada county pages for every sheriff and police department.