Nevada AG Ford provides $400,000 for red flag law training

CARSON CITY, Nev. (KOLO) – Nevada Lawyer Basic Aaron Ford has introduced $400,000 for schooling and coaching packages for the state’s crimson flag regulation.

Grants can even be supplied to organizations offering assets to members of the family trying to assist members of the family in disaster.

“Our state’s ‘crimson flag’ regulation is a strong device that may assist curb gun violence in our state,” mentioned Ford. “The cash accepted at present by the Interim Finance Committee will go towards making certain our regulation enforcement officers have the instruments they will use to maintain folks secure and can assist unfold this info to Nevadans involved about their members of the family.”

Nevada’s crimson flag regulation has been in place since 2019 and permits members of the family or regulation enforcement to request an order to briefly take away weapons from an individual thought-about to be partaking in violent habits or making threats of violence.

For the reason that regulation was handed, solely 13 such orders have been made between January 2020 and July 2022.

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