It's A Pattern: BOCC Voting Against The Town.
The Nye County Board of County Commissioners is supposed to work for the people who live here. That is the job. The law even says so.
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Should Taxpayers Pay For Law Enforcements Lawsuit
When victims cannot get into court, the truth never comes out.
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The sheriff says the county jail is $7 million short. He asked the state to come look.
Sheriff Joe McGill told the commission the Nye County Detention Center is short roughly $7 million, and the county about $13 million. He asked for a forensic audit by the state.
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HOA and Flock: Profiting From Your Data.
Your neighborhood may be keeping a record of every car that comes and goes. In most states, no law says who gets to access.
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Pahrump's Private Prison. Here's Who Runs It And What The Contract Says.
The building on East Mesquite Avenue is not a county jail. It is a private prison run by CoreCivic for the federal government, and the contract lets Immigration and Customs Enforcement hold people there. The public can see the total, $122,250,660. The public cannot see the daily rate.
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Does Pahrump Need A Police Force? BOCC Meeting Gets Heated With Bayne And McGill.
He then read Facebook comments praising himself out loud. Some backed his idea. Others attacked Sheriff Joe McGill.
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Data Center Gold Rush: Who Are We Building It For?
Pahrump was asked to host an $18.4 billion technology campus. Before the rest of Nye County decides whether data centers belong here, residents should understand who uses them, who owns them and who they benefit.
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How Nye County Facilitated Mediwaste To An Easy Approval
The county didn’t get fooled. It held the door open. It ran a hospital-waste burner through the easy permit, ignored the state’s own fire warning, buried an opposition letter and went quiet. Now the county still has to vote, and that is where Pahrump can still stop it.
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The people of Pahrump said no. Nevada signed the medical waste incinerator permit anyway.
The state issued MediWaste its permit on August 31. It can burn 41.4 tons of medical waste a day, the next block from the county courthouse. The permit calls it pyrolysis. The EPA has already ruled on that word. If you want to appeal, the clock runs out September 5.
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They Arrested Him For Playing Cop. Then They Let Him Judge Cops
"I Imagine This Charge Will Never See The Light Of Day" Carns said that about his 2015 arrest. He was right. Nye County spent the next seven years handing him things.
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Nye County Sheriff Chased A Motorcycle Into Las Vegas. Here Is What The Law Allows.
A Nye County deputy knocked a rider off a motorcycle inside Las Vegas on Saturday. Nevada law, Metro's rulebook and the deputies' union contract all have something to say about that.
Read the full storyConfused To What Can Be Released? We're Breaking Down The Sheriffs Union Contract.
When an officer is arrested, two separate things start.
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It's A Pattern. A Brief History Of The Nye County Sheriff's Department.
You used the badge, you used the office, as a legitimate way to slander someone's character." - U.S. District Judge Andrew Gordon, to Capt. David Boruchowitz
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The Sheriff Wouldn't Name The Deputies. We Went And Found Them.
The Sheriff's Office would not name the two deputies it charged over a woman's death in the county jail. The state's own custody database had both names by the next afternoon. Here is who they are, what the records show, and what Nevada law actually says about naming an arrested officer.
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How to use Nye's Lies to find out what Nye County is doing
Nye's Lies is not only stories. It is 3,438 county meetings, 624 salaries, 3,309 water rights and 1,289 county documents, all free and all searchable. Here is what is on the site and how to use each piece.
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Mustangs are ending up in slaughterhouses. In Nye County they just rounded up 1,035.
A New York Times investigation found BLM horses ending up in slaughterhouses. The agency took 1,035 wild horses and burros off the range near Beatty and Pahrump this year. Five died in the roundups. Two more are missing from the count.
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MediWaste... Why Four Different Plans
What MediWaste has not done. It has not tested a single one of its seven ovens on Pahrump medical waste. It has not tested them at the 4,000-pound batch size it proposes to run. It has not tested them, at all, at this site.
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The Sheriff's three union contracts, in full
The county has posted the union contracts covering every sworn officer at the Sheriff's Office. There are three, signed by three different commissioners. All three are here.
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What's Eating The Sheriff's Budget
Sixteen items totaling $944,500 against a request of $1,034,500. Ninety thousand dollars is unaccounted for on the page commissioners voted from.
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Breaking down The Manse Campus Tax Claims
A data center promises Nye County a fortune in taxes. Here is where the money really goes.
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The burritos are worth the stop. The four idling engines are not. Turn the key, NCSO.
Two white Sheriff pickups and two black marked SUVs on North Blagg Road, all four running with nobody inside while the deputies ate. No lightbars, no dogs, no prisoners. It burns our gas, it is not very neighborly, and Nevada has a statute that says do not do it.
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NightHawk puts your car, your phone and your social media on one timeline. In Nevada, nobody needs a warrant to see where you drove.
The software takes license plate reads, phone extractions, call records, social media and GPS trails and fuses them into a single map and timeline that agencies can share with each other. It came before the Nye County commissioners twice and stalled twice, at two different prices. The third time it passed as one line inside a capital plan, and the vote was unanimous.
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Six Flock cameras in Pahrump: four are Home Depot's, and two are a mystery
Public map records put six Flock cameras in Pahrump, every one of them an automated license plate reader. Four sit around the Home Depot and name the store as their operator. Two more, a mile south, name nobody. Here is what these cameras record, how long it is kept, who can search it, and why Nevada has no law on any of it.
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A floodwall for the county's Pahrump offices, and 15 days to say something about it
FEMA has issued its final public notice for a 1,102 foot floodwall to protect the Nye County courts, the sheriff's office and the assessor, recorder and treasurer in Pahrump. Comments close on August 26.
Read the full storyThe Data Centers Are Coming. Look at Lyon County.
On August 6, Lyon County approved a 505-acre, 1,000-megawatt data center campus near Yerington, over a room of nearly 300 people where most speakers said no. Nye County's own decision is parked until a special election. Lyon County shows what can arrive while you wait.
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Hey Ian, Why the Gmail?
Four of Nye County's five commissioners do county business on county email. Commissioner Ian Bayne is listed at a Gmail address, the only personal account in the county's entire published directory. One question, and a standing offer to print the answer.
Read the full storyThe Data Center Ban Failed. Tell Your Commissioner How You Feel.
The proposed data center ban did not pass on August 4. The board voted 5-0 to send the question to a special election instead, January 2027 at the earliest. Your commissioner's email and phone number are below.
Read the full storyGetting Caught Is Not the Problem
People here get caught. A commissioner, a sheriff's captain, a sitting judge, and the record is public every time. The problem was never that the truth is buried in Nye County. It is that it surfaces, regularly, and nothing moves.
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