The Nevada State Police Records, Communications and Compliance Division keeps the Central Repository for Nevada Records of Criminal History and describes its job as providing complete, timely and accurate criminal justice information while balancing public safety against privacy. Its form DPS-006, the Identification File Request for Nevada Records of Criminal History, states the limit in its first lines: only the subject of the identification record can request a copy of his or her own Nevada criminal history record information, or proof that none exists, and the repository cannot provide records for other states or the FBI. The form has a space for the subject to direct the response to a named person or company, which is how a lawyer, an employer or a foreign consulate receives it, but the subject signs and the subject's prints prove identity.
Employers and licensing boards that a statute allows to run fingerprint checks do so through the division's Civil Applicant Program with their own accounts and waivers, which the Nevada background check guide explains. For anyone else the public records of an arrest are the court docket and the jail roster, held by the justice, municipal and district courts and by the county sheriffs listed on the Nevada county pages; the division itself keeps no traffic accident reports or citations and sends those requests to the agency that wrote them.
- $27, a card and 45 days: the personal record costs $27 per applicant by money order or certified check to the Nevada Department of Public Safety, with an original FD-258 card of all ten prints taken by a certified technician, and takes about 45 days from receipt.
- No fee for trafficking victims: under NRS 179.245 a person who was a victim of sex trafficking when the offense occurred pays nothing for the record or for any step of sealing, by signing the certification on page three of the form.
- $40 from October 1, 2026: a fingerprint based submission now carries a $27 state fee and a $13 FBI fee, and a volunteer submission $21.50 and $11 for $32.50, under the division's new fee structure.
- Any time after a dismissal: NRS 179.255 lets a person petition to seal a dismissed or acquitted case at any time, and a case the prosecutor declined after the statute of limitations runs, eight years after the arrest, or by stipulation.
Written by SearchSystems.net from Nevada's own systems: the Nevada State Police Records, Communications and Compliance Division home page, form DPS-006, the request for a copy of Nevada criminal history records, the division's fees and forms page, the division's fingerprint fees and information page, the fingerprint fee structure effective October 1, 2026, the division's page on criminal history and sealing of records, the division's general information on sealing criminal history records, revised August 2025, the Nevada Department of Corrections inmate search, the Nevada Legislature's chart of the state court structure, each read on October 15, 2026 by the SearchSystems editorial team.
Completing form DPS-006
The form runs three pages. Page one lists the steps: complete the request on page three, obtain proof of identity on one FD-258 fingerprint card carrying the name, date and place of birth, sex, race, height, weight, hair and eye color, all ten fingers taken simultaneously as plain impressions, signed by the subject and taken, dated and signed by a certified fingerprinting technician, originals only, and enclose $27 per applicant by money order or certified check in the exact amount, since personal checks and cash are refused.
Every member of a couple or family files a separate packet and pays separately. The stapled packet goes to the Records, Communications and Compliance Division at 333 West Nye Lane, Suite 100, Carson City, Nevada 89706, and anything missing sends it back. The answer is a State Negative Record Response, a letter saying no Nevada record was found, or a State Positive Record Response with the full content of the record, mailed to the address given and never forwarded, so a move means a new form.
A duplicate can be requested within 90 days of the original processing. The fees and forms page adds that the manual request is required from outside Nevada, while a request from inside the state can be made electronically, and that the division now takes e-check payments arranged by phone at 775-684-6262.
Fees for employers and the October 2026 change
The fingerprint fees page lists a civil name check at $20 and the firearm background check at $25, and points to the structure effective October 1, 2026, under which a fingerprint based submission costs $27 to the state and $13 to the FBI, $40 in all, and a volunteer submission $21.50 and $11, or $32.50. Since November 16, 2012 only one applicant fingerprint card is required for a manual or electronic submission. Law enforcement fingerprint sites and a list of private fingerprint sites are published for applicants, and the Civil Applicant Program publishes its account application, update form and the waiver that an applicant signs under the National Child Protection Act and Volunteers for Children Act.
A DNA expungement form, in English and Spanish, handles removal of a DNA sample taken at arrest when the case did not end in a qualifying conviction.
Sealing after a conviction under NRS 179.245
The division's sealing guide, revised in August 2025, reprints the statutes and explains that a sealing order removes records from general information sources without destroying them, that all proceedings are then deemed never to have occurred so the person may answer any inquiry, employment applications included, accordingly, and that the right to vote, hold office and serve on a jury returns at once while the right to bear arms returns only with a pardon that does not restrict it.
Agencies outside Nevada are asked to comply but are not bound. Under NRS 179.245 a petition goes to the convicting court after a waiting period measured from release from custody or discharge from parole or probation, whichever is later: ten years for a category A felony, a crime of violence or residential burglary, five years for a category B, C or D felony, two years for a category E felony or a gross misdemeanor, seven years for a non felony DUI, a misdemeanor domestic battery or a welfare fraud offense, two years for a misdemeanor battery, harassment, stalking or protection order violation, and one year for any other misdemeanor.
Crimes against a child, sexual offenses, home invasion with a deadly weapon and felony DUI can never be sealed.
The petition must carry the petitioner's current verified record from the Central Repository, which is why form DPS-006 comes first, a list of every other agency or company known to hold the records, and the date of birth, the specific conviction and the arrest date. Since October 1, 2017 a copy from the local police department of the city or county of conviction is no longer required. The court notifies the arresting agency and the prosecutor, and NRS 179.2445 supplies a rebuttable presumption that the records should be sealed: if the prosecutor stipulates the court seals, if the prosecutor neither stipulates nor objects in writing within 30 days the court may seal without a hearing on finding no pending charge or new conviction in the waiting period apart from minor traffic matters, and if the prosecutor objects a hearing is held at which the objector must rebut the presumption.
The guide warns that the repository may need up to six months to carry out an order once it arrives, depending on the accuracy of the information in it, and the district attorney's office in the county of arrest can describe its own stipulation procedure. The Nevada criminal records guide covers the court forms for district, justice and municipal courts.
Sealing after a dismissal, a declined prosecution or an acquittal
NRS 179.255 handles the arrest that produced no conviction. A person whose charges were dismissed may petition the court that dismissed them at any time afterward, and a person acquitted may petition the trial court at any time after the acquittal. When the prosecutor declined to prosecute, the petition may be filed any time after the statute of limitations has run, any time eight years after the arrest, or earlier by stipulation between the parties, in the court that would have had jurisdiction.
A conviction set aside under the veterans court statute, NRS 458A.240, may likewise be sealed. The petition needs the same verified repository record, the disposition of the proceedings, the list of other record holders and the identifying details, and the court notifies the arresting agency and the county or city prosecutor, who may stipulate, object within 30 days or do nothing, with the same presumption and the same route to a hearing.
A record sealed this way can still be reopened or inspected in the limited circumstances in NRS 179.295 and 179.301.
Jails, prisons and the courts behind them
The Department of Corrections inmate search runs by offender ID or by first and last name with wildcards, and the department labels its output raw data, offered without a guarantee that it is error free and not to be used as an official record by any agency, with family services at 775-977-5707 for questions and downloadable demographic, alias, booking, parole and release data sets for researchers. The Legislature's court chart explains where an arrest is heard: 40 justice courts handle preliminary felony and gross misdemeanor matters and misdemeanors, 17 municipal courts handle ordinance and traffic cases inside city limits, and 17 district courts with 82 judges try felonies and gross misdemeanors.
A person held before trial is in a county or city detention center, which the Nevada inmate search guide covers, and registration is covered in the Nevada sex offender registry guide.
Questions about Nevada arrest records
Related Nevada records
Nevada readers can continue with the Nevada criminal records guide for conviction files and sealing forms, the Nevada court records guide for the justice, municipal and district court clerks, the Nevada background check guide for the Civil Applicant Program, the Nevada public records law guide for chapter 239 requests, and the Nevada county pages for every sheriff and detention center.