Advisory board backs electronic game tags with privacy caveats
The CAB signaled support for proposed e‑tag regulations that would allow electronic game tag validation, while urging clearer language and safeguards against publication of precise kill-location data; law enforcement acknowledged field enforcement and validation challenges.
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Members reviewed a proposed update to the Nevada Administrative Code to permit electronic game tags (e-tags) and discussed validation, field enforcement and location‑data privacy. Several speakers expressed that e-tags could deliver timelier harvest data for biologists, while others warned about the possibility of public access to precise kill locations. Board member (speaker 4) said staff had "reiterated... concerns... about collection of actual locations when people punch the electronic tag, making sure that that information wasn't gonna be public knowledge," and law enforcement confirmed warrants would be needed to obtain granular location data in many cases.
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