2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 62E - Disposition of Cases by Juvenile Court › NRS 62E.513 - Commitment of child to regional facility for treatment and rehabilitation of children or facility for detention of children: Screening required; exception; time and method for conducting screening; report of commercial sexual exploitation to agency which provides child welfare services.

1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 5, each child who is adjudicated delinquent and committed by the juvenile court to a regional facility for the treatment and rehabilitation of children or state facility for the detention of children or ordered by the juvenile court to be placed in a facility for the detention of children pursuant to NRS 62E.710 must be screened to determine whether the child:
(a) Is in need of mental health services;
(b) Has an alcohol or other substance use disorder; or
(c) Is a victim of commercial sexual exploitation.
2. The facility to which the child is committed or in which the child is placed shall:
(a) Cause the screening required pursuant to subsection 1 to be conducted as soon as practicable after the child has been committed or placed in the facility; and
(b) Additionally screen each child committed to, or placed under the custody of, the facility to determine whether the child is in need of mental health services or has an alcohol or other substance use disorder once every 6 months or when significant changes to the child’s case plan developed pursuant to NRS 62E.507 or 62E.525, as applicable, are made.
3. The facility to which the child is committed or in which the child is placed shall report the commercial sexual exploitation of the child to an agency which provides child welfare services as soon as practicable after conducting the screening required by subsection 1 if the results of the screening indicate that the child is a victim of commercial sexual exploitation.
4. The method for conducting the screening required pursuant to:
(a) Paragraph (a) or (b) of subsection 1 must satisfy the requirements of NRS 62E.516.
(b) Paragraph (c) of subsection 1 must:
(1) Satisfy the requirements of NRS 62E.516; and
(2) Be reliable and valid for identifying whether a child who is the same age as the child to whom the requirement applies is a victim of commercial sexual exploitation.
5. The requirement prescribed by paragraph (c) of subsection 1 does not apply if the method for conducting the screening is not reliable and valid for identifying whether a child who is the same age as the child to whom the requirement applies is a victim of commercial sexual exploitation.
6. If a facility reports the commercial sexual exploitation of a child pursuant to subsection 3, the report made pursuant to subsection 3 shall be deemed to be a report of the commercial sexual exploitation of the child that has been made pursuant to NRS 432C.110 and:
(a) The child welfare agency shall act upon the report pursuant to chapter 432C of NRS; and
(b) The report may be used in the same manner as other reports that are made pursuant to NRS 432C.110.
7. As used in this section, "commercial sexual exploitation" has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 432C.050.
(Added to NRS by 2005, 1035; A 2017, 4391; 2023, 825)