Nevada school mapping law

Does Nevada require schools to share building plans?

Yes, when a public safety agency asks. A public school's blueprint, including a charter school's, must be disclosed in its most current version to a public safety agency on request. A private school's principal or person in charge, or their designee, shall give a public safety agency a copy of the school's most current blueprint on request. For public schools, that subsection only governs handing over an existing blueprint and its revisions; it sets no duty to create a floor plan or map, no format and no update schedule. The private school provision likewise only requires handing over the most current existing blueprint, with no duty to create a map, no format and no update schedule.

Who counts as a public safety agency?

For blueprint disclosure, a public safety agency includes a public fire department or other fire agency. It includes a law enforcement agency. It includes an emergency medical service. A public school blueprint may also be shared with any other person or government entity when needed for a purpose related to the school.

How do first responders get to know school layouts?

Each school district superintendent must name a district-level employee as the school safety specialist, and each charter school's governing body must name one for the charter school. At least once every 3 years, the school safety specialist must give public safety staff likely to respond to an emergency at a public school a chance to take part in an activity to familiarize themselves with the school's blueprints. That duty is to give first responders a chance to study existing blueprints; the paragraph does not require the district or charter school to create, digitize or send maps. The school board or charter governing body must keep a confidential record of first responders' recommendations from that activity.

Are school blueprints confidential?

A public school's blueprint, including a charter school's, is confidential. Anyone who receives a public school blueprint may not share it further except as the state's public records law (NRS 239.0115) allows. A public safety agency that receives a private school blueprint may not share it except as NRS 239.0115 allows. The Public Records Act's inspection rule lists both blueprint provisions among the statutes it is subject to.

Do school emergency plans include maps?

The minimum contents the statute sets for a district or charter school emergency operations plan list no floor plan, site map, blueprint or mapping data; one item pulls in the state Department of Education's model plan. School emergency operations plans and the model plan are confidential, so whether the model plan calls for maps cannot be checked from public sources.

How has the law changed?

The public school blueprint provision, NRS 393.045, was added to Nevada law in 2019. The private school blueprint provision has not been amended since it was added in 2019. The first-responder blueprint familiarization duty was last amended in 2021. AB 412 (2025) would have created a grant account in the Division of Emergency Management to fund law enforcement agencies buying school mapping data for public schools. Under AB 412, the entity producing the mapping data would have had to give it to the school district and every public safety agency in the county. The bill would have required the data to work with public safety agencies' software, be checked for accuracy by its producer, and be oriented to true north with gridded x and y coordinates. AB 412's fiscal note said it contained an appropriation not in the Executive Budget; in its first reprint, section 2 was deleted by amendment and no dollar amount appears. AB 412 died: no final passage vote was recorded, and its last action, on June 3, 2025, was "No further action taken." A 2027 bill draft request on school safety (BDR 34-447, requested August 18, 2026 by the Joint Interim Standing Committee on Education) is pending; its text is not yet public.