The ACLU of Nevada believes this practice to be unconstitutional for a variety of reasons. In Ms. ACLU officials say they plan to take her case to court to test long-standing policies involving work cards in Las Vegas and Clark County. Here's hoping the civil liberties organization prevails. Shuffling cards Leslie decided that the work card system needed revisions after she received complaints from Reno casino workers who had work cards in Reno but had to pay for new cards when they tried to get jobs in Sparks or in unincorporated parts of Washoe County.
Casinos have strong incentives to hire dependable, trustworthy people.
Groups want work card records We are quite confident that this system is thoroughly unconstitution- al. Shortly before the conference, Michael Slater, executive director of the Interfaith Council, filed a Freedom of Information Act request for the records with Sheriff Jerry Keller, who was off-duty and unavailable for comment. Police spokesman Steven Meriwether said the department would have to do some research to determine how it would respond. As part of the approval process, the Police Department takes an applicant's photo and fingerprints and runs a criminal background check. Peck said the groups had scheduled a meeting today with Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman in hopes of starting a discussion about reforming the work card system.