Law / United States / 
Nevada
Pupil directories and disclosure of pupil and family phone numbers and addresses
In force since .
A sensitive categories rule binding government bodies.
- Instrument type
- an act of a legislature
- Obligation class
- Disclosure, Prohibition
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- If you are a public school (including a charter school or a university school for profoundly gifted pupils), include in any directory of pupils you maintain no data or information about a pupil other than the pupil's name, grade level and school photograph (NRS 388.277(1)).
- If you are a school district or public school, do not disclose the phone number or address of any pupil or of a pupil's parent or legal guardian to a third party unless federal law or a subpoena, warrant or court order requires it, or the disclosure is necessary to provide instructional programming and services or wrap-around services to the pupil (NRS 388.278(1)).
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What record it asks for
Logging duty
NRS 388.277 and 388.278 limit what a pupil directory holds and when a phone number or address may be disclosed. They name no duty to create, keep or produce a log or record of a disclosure.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
A public school must not include any data or information concerning a pupil within a directory of pupils maintained by the school other than the name, grade level and school photograph of a pupil.
Except as NRS 388.281 to 388.296 otherwise provide, or as necessary to provide instructional programming and services or wrap-around services to a pupil, a school district or public school must not disclose the phone number or address of any pupil or parent or legal guardian of a pupil to a third party unless required by federal law or a subpoena, warrant or order issued by a court of competent jurisdiction.
A third party may request information concerning a pupil contained in a directory by submitting a written request to the public school stating the date and purpose of the request and either an affirmation that the information is for a journalistic purpose with documentation that the requester is a reporter or editorial employee, or an affirmation that the information will be used only for the stated purpose and will not be sold, transferred or distributed to any other party.
Sections 36.3 and 36.4 of Assembly Bill 6 of the 36th Special Session of 2025 added the directory and contact information provisions to chapter 388 of NRS. Assembly Bill 6 of the 36th Special Session became effective on .
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