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Titus sponsors bill to regulate, ban bump stocks

The bill would treat bump stocks like fully automatic weapons, requiring registration with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and generally banning their sale to civilians.

Death penalty bill prompts hours of debate in Nevada Legislature

Members of the Assembly Judiciary Committee listened to more than three hours of testimony on Wednesday about Assembly Bill 237, which would abolish the death penalty in Nevada.

Task force begins weighing overhaul of Nevada’s juvenile justice system

A task force of judges, prosecutors, legislators, youth advocates and juvenile probation officials on Tuesday began considering options to improve Nevada’s juvenile justice system and break a cycle of repeat offenders.

Senate to consider bill funding police body cameras

A bill that would appropriate nearly $1.3 million to equip 481 Nevada Highway Patrol troopers with body cameras by 2017 was amended and approved Friday by the Senate Finance Committee. Senate Bill 111 will now go to the full Senate for consideration as a Monday deadline for the 2015 session to adjourn looms.

Nevada movement draws the line on human trafficking

A modern-day abolitionist movement that includes Las Vegas law enforcement officials, the state attorney general’s office, legislators and grass-roots activists wants to reclassify the pimps who dominate the world’s oldest profession as modern-day slave traders.