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Bill would move Nevada crime reporting from UCR to NIBRS to collect more detailed incident data
Summary
Assembly Bill 97 would transition Nevada's statewide crime reporting from the FBI’s legacy Uniform Crime Reporting system (UCR) to the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS). Sponsors said NIBRS allows reporting of multiple offenses per incident and more victim/offender detail, improving understanding of interpersonal violence.
Assemblymember Nadim and Serena Evans, policy director with the Nevada Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence, told the Senate Judiciary Committee that Assembly Bill 97 would transition Nevada’s crime reporting to the FBI’s National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS).
Assemblymember Nadim, sponsor, said the measure grew from a recommendation of the Joint Interim Standing Committee on the Judiciary and that Nevada’s current crime reporting under the older Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program undercounts or misclassifies many incidents of interpersonal violence. Serena Evans told senators that “collection of crime data isn't about numbers. It's about people,” and that NIBRS captures relationships between victims and offenders, weapon use, and co-occurring offenses that UCR’s summary counts can miss.
Evans explained that NIBRS allows law enforcement to report up to 10 offenses per incident, record the victim–offender relationship, and include demographic and property details that support more precise analysis. She and Nadim said the FBI adopted NIBRS as the national standard and that moving Nevada to NIBRS would align state reporting with federal practice and produce data useful to victim services, prevention planning and law enforcement resource allocation.
Committee members asked whether other states have made the change and whether agencies in Nevada already use NIBRS. Evans said she did not have an exact count of states but that most agencies have moved to NIBRS because the FBI now requires it; she said Washoe and Clark counties in Nevada already use NIBRS. Senator Ellison asked whether the system tracks repeat offenders; Evans said UCR provides only summary counts and that NIBRS yields incident-level detail that better supports analysis of repeat victimization and offender patterns, though internal law-enforcement databases may contain additional offender-tracking capabilities.
No callers provided public testimony in support, opposition or neutral positions during the hearing, and the committee closed testimony on AB 97 without a recorded vote.
