Staff outlines draft 2026 legislative priorities including jail funding, indigent defense and language access

Jordan Bogie, the county’s policy analyst, presented a draft list of Clark County’s proposed priorities for the 2026 state legislative session, telling the council the session will be short — 60 days — and the county needs to prioritize requests ahead of January. “It is a short session. And so just 60 days, it will be a, a sprint through through that legislative session,” Bogie said.

Bogie grouped likely requests into annual/recurring items, an unsupported 2025 request to re-seek funding, and a “parking lot” of potential priorities. He said likely recurring items include a local capital request (the county previously secured $1.5 million for jail work), and sustaining funding for projects on the 170 Ninth Street corridor. Bogie called indigent defense funding a likely priority for counties…