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Children’s Justice Center asks Clark County to support bills on fentanyl child-exposure, statutes of limitations, and offender reporting
Summary
The Children’s Justice Center asked the council to support reintroducing a bill that would expand child endangerment statutes to cover fentanyl exposure and make some exposures felonies, to match statutes of limitations for related offenses, and to require registered offenders to report employer/school/volunteer information to law enforcement.
Jordan Bogie and Laurel Smith presented three legislative priorities from the Children’s Justice Center (CJC) during the Jan. 7 council meeting.
First, staff described a senate bill to expand the crime-of-endangerment statute to include fentanyl and synthetic opioids and to make child exposure to fentanyl a felony rather than a misdemeanor. Laurel Smith said the CJC has handled "a number of infant and toddler exposures" to fentanyl and that prosecutors lack a felony charge short of manslaughter for nonfatal exposures,…
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