NDOC hasn’t implemented law capping deductions on inmate bank accounts Share
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To test if a new law restricting deductions on inmate bank accounts was working properly at the beginning of the month, Jodi Hocking deposited $10 for her husband, an inmate with the Nevada Department of Corrections.
Since September 2020, Return Strong, a prisoners advocacy group Hocking started, along with the ACLU of Nevada and other groups have decried the department’s policy that raided accounts and took up to 80% from inmates.
During this year’s legislative session, Sen. Melanie Scheible proposed a fix in Senate Bill 22 tocap how muchNDOC can deduct from inmates’ accounts. The bill, which went into effect July 1, limits deductions from friends and family at 25% and money earned through jobs at 50%.
Traffic ticket decriminalization takes effect July 1, but law’s major provisions don’t
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While legislation decriminalizing traffic tickets and preventing driver’s license suspensions for minor traffic offenses technically go into effect July 1, major provisions of the bills won’t be effective until months, if not years, later.
Assembly Bill 116 makesminor traffic violations, such as driving with a broken taillight, a civil infraction, while Senate Bill 219 ends the practice of suspending people’s driver’s licenses when they can’t afford to pay fines and fees for minor traffic tickets.
The component of AB 116 actually converting minor traffic offenses from a criminal into a civil matter goes into effect Jan. 1 2023.
Apartment lobby opposes bill after praising it on TV
May 3, 2021
VegasPBS Nevada Week host Kipp Ortenburger and Suzy Vasquez, executive director of the Nevada Apartment Association, in an April 23 Nevada week broadcast. (VegasPBS screengrab).
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They were against it before they were for it before they were against it.
At a Friday state Senate Judiciary Committee hearing for a proposal to automatically seal pandemic-related evictions, the Nevada State Apartment Association testified in opposition to the legislation, despite earlier public comments in support of the bill.
During an appearance onPBS’s Nevada Weekthat aired April 23, Susy Vasquez, the executive director of the association, was asked what potential solutions were available if the feared wave of evictions hits when Gov. Steve Sisolak’smoratorium expiresat the end of May.