With five lawsuits open against the Las Vegas City Marshals, The Indy explains what their role is, and how they differ from police officers.

The family — as well as some legal experts — contend that Lopez Gomez’s case highlights ICE’s lack of transparency on detainee whereabouts and their safety. Although many aspects about his case are not atypical — such as the manner of his arrest — the rare video footage and his daughter’s testimony shed light on what conditions can be like for ICE detainees in an increasingly tense political landscape.

In the seven years since his release, Frank De Palma has become a voice for the estimated 122,000 people held in solitary confinement across the U.S.

The Resort Corridor Court leaned on stay-away orders to curb crime. But those who worked closely with it said it lacked the resources to address root causes.

Local criminal justice advocates and lawyers say that Alexandrovich’s departure shows a flaw in Nevada’s bail system, allowing people to skirt around the legal system.

The audit suggested increased enforcement of payroll practices, including training new administrators to oversee payroll practices, as well as bolstering recruitment and retention efforts. The agency said it will work to adopt the recommendations, but similar suggestions from prior studies were never implemented.

Acting U.S. Attorney Sigal Chattah appears to have quietly left her position as Nevada's Republican National Committee committeewoman. Department of Justice employees are expected to remain politically neutral.

Questions are being raised about how a man with a documented history of mental health problems — and a recent arrest for erratic behavior at another casino — ended up working in a security-sensitive job at the Horseshoe Las Vegas casino.

Shane Tamura, who played high school football in California nearly two decades ago but never in the NFL, had a history of mental illness, police said. Investigators found that Tamura drove across the country to New York over the past few days.

Hotel guests heard several shots coming from the resort’s valet area around 7:30 a.m. The suspect had no known connection to the victims, police said, adding that the motive is unknown.

Charles Morris filed a federal lawsuit in 2018 accusing several state prison medical officials of “callous disregard for my personal health and wellbeing” after he was repeatedly denied back surgery that a doctor had deemed necessary.

Las Vegas Mayor Shelley Berkley said she supports Las Vegas Metropolitan Police’s decision to enter into a partnership with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), known as 287(g), although she said she didn’t push him one way or the other beforehand on joining the program.

The agreement, known as 287(g), allows Metro officers to hold undocumented people in custody for an additional two days so ICE can pick them up. It also requires participating Metro personnel to report all encounters with individuals who assert claims of U.S. citizenship to ICE.

The final hours of the legislative session may have been the killing blow to the bill, but that isn’t the full explanation.

In a last-minute joint letter to Gov. Joe Lombardo, the Resort Association and Culinary Union urged lawmakers to adopt the proposal reestablishing the court with powers to ban people from the region.

A committee advanced the bill, but with major changes that crack down on smash-and-grab burglaries and increase penalties for certain offenses on the Strip.

Presented in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee in a nearly six-hour hearing — its first this session — SB457 would impose harsher sentences for repeat offenders and for a large swath of crimes, including lowering the thresholds for burglary to be considered a felony offense.

SB350, which passed out of the state Senate in April on a party-line 13-8 vote with Republicans opposed, would lengthen the time frame to carry out an execution after a judge issues a judgment of death.

Sigal Chattah, the interim U.S. attorney for the District of Nevada, said in a radio interview last week that she had “walked away” from her responsibilities as one of Nevada’s two Republican National Committee (RNC) officers.

Lombardo, alongside several state law enforcement officers, championed the bill during the press conference as “commonsense criminal justice reforms” that will improve community safety, although state data indicates that property crime and violent crime have ticked down over the past two years.