AB477

Existing law requires the Director of the Department of Corrections to compile the last known residential address of each offender immediately before the offender was sentenced to imprisonment in a facility or institution of the Department. (NRS 209.131) Existing law also requires: (1) the State Demographer, employed by the Department of Taxation, to, upon the completion of the decennial census, revise the population counts for every block, block group and census tract to count certain inmates in the block, block group and census tract of the inmate's last known residential address before incarceration; and (2) the Department of Corrections to, upon request, provide all available information to the State Demographer. (NRS 360.288) Existing law further requires that the population counts as revised by the State Demographer be used in the apportionment of legislative districts, congressional districts and districts of the Board of Regents. (NRS 218B.105, 304.065, 396.0414) Section 1 of this bill requires the Director of the Department of Corrections to collect and maintain an electronic record for each offender in a facility or institution of the Department that includes: (1) the last known residential address of the offender immediately before the offender was sentenced to imprisonment; (2) whether the offender is 18 years of age or older; and (3) the race or ethnicity of the offender. Section 3 of this bill requires the Director of the Department, before January 1, 2026,