2022 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 432B - Protection of Children From Abuse and Neglect
NRS 432B.4018 - Requirements for operation; convening of multidisciplinary team to develop standards for acceptance of cases; access to services; immunity from liability for employee, officer or member of multidisciplinary team; confidentiality and disclosure of information maintained by center.
1. To operate in this State, a children’s advocacy center must:
(a) Be recognized by the National Children’s Alliance, or its successor organization, as an accredited member, an associate/developing member or an affiliate member; and
(b) Operate in accordance with the standards prescribed by the National Children’s Alliance, or its successor organization, to the extent that those standards do not conflict with federal or state law.
2. Each children’s advocacy center shall convene a multidisciplinary team to develop standards for the acceptance of cases by the children’s advocacy center. To the extent that money is available, the governing body of each county and each agency which provides child welfare services shall ensure that children whose cases meet those standards have access to services available through the children’s advocacy center.
3. An employee or officer of a children’s advocacy center is immune from civil liability for any action or omission in the performance of his or her duties on behalf of or through the children’s advocacy center if he or she acts in good faith.
4. A member of a multidisciplinary team is immune from civil liability for any act or omission with regard to communications with another member of a multidisciplinary team as part of the performance of his or her duties on behalf of or through a children’s advocacy center if he or she acts in good faith.
5. Except as otherwise provided in this subsection and NRS 239.0115, 432B.165, 432B.175, 432B.513 and 439.538 or as ordered by a court, information maintained by a children’s advocacy center, including, without limitation, reports and investigations made pursuant to this chapter, is confidential. Such information may, at the discretion of the children’s advocacy center, be made available only to the persons described in subsection 2 of NRS 432B.290.
(Added to NRS by 2021, 536)
