Nev. Rev. Stat. § 360.288 — Department of Corrections required to provide certain information concerning inmates to State Demographer; revision of population counts to count inmate in block, block group and census tract in which inmate resided before incarceration; manner of counting inmates whose last residence unknown

NRS  360.288    Department of Corrections required to provide certain
information concerning inmates to State Demographer; revision of population
counts to count inmate in block, block group and census tract in which inmate
resided before incarceration; manner of counting inmates whose last residence
unknown.
1.  The Department of Corrections shall,
after April 1 but not later than July 1 of each year in which the national
decennial census is completed, furnish to the State Demographer for every
inmate in a facility or institution of the Department:
(a) A unique identifying number, which may not
include the name of the inmate and must be different than any other
identification number assigned to the inmate by the Department;
(b) The street address of the facility or
institution in which the inmate is sentenced to imprisonment;
(c) The last known residential address of each
inmate immediately before the inmate was sentenced to imprisonment in a
facility or institution of the Department and any alternative residential
address of the inmate, if known by the Department;
(d) Whether the inmate is 18 years of age or
older; and
(e) The race or ethnicity of the person, which
must include a separate category for persons of Hispanic or Latino descent.
2.  Not later than 30 days after provision
of the redistricting data by the Bureau of the Census of the United States
Department of Commerce to the State pursuant to Public Law 94-171, the State
Demographer shall, except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, revise the
population counts for every block, block group and census tract as set forth in
the census to count every inmate who was a resident of the State before
incarceration in the block, block group and census tract of which an inmate was
a resident before his or her incarceration based on the information received
from the Department of Corrections pursuant to subsection 1.
3.  For every inmate whose information is
received pursuant to subsection 1 for whom the last known residential address
is unknown or whose last known residential address was not in this State, and
for every inmate in a federal facility or institution for whom the last known
residential address is unknown, the State Demographer:
(a) Must not count the inmate in the block, block
group and census tract of the facility or institution in which the inmate is
incarcerated; and
(b) Must count the inmate as a resident of a
state unit not tied to a specific block, block group, census tract or other
geographical unit.
4.  As used in this section:
(a) “Block” means the smallest geographical unit
whose boundaries were designated by the Bureau of the Census of the United
States Department of Commerce in its topographically integrated geographic
encoding and referencing system.
(b) “Block group” means a combination of blocks
whose numbers begin with the same digit.
(c) “Census tract” means a combination of block
groups.
(d) “Inmate” means a person who was determined to
be incarcerated in a facility or institution of the Department of Corrections
at the last preceding national decennial census conducted by the Bureau of the
Census of the United States Department of Commerce.
(e) “State Demographer” means the demographer
employed by the Department of Taxation pursuant to NRS 360.283 .