Nevada Panel Backs Funding to Expand Governor Sisolak's Security Team

A state panel has endorsed an agency’s request for funding to expand Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak’s security team.

The Board of Examiners’ vote Tuesday forwards the Department of Public Safety’s request for $373,051 to the the Legislature’s Interim Finance Committee.

The department wants to expand Sisolak’s security detail to eight positions by adding a sergeant and two officers.

KTVN 2 News reached out to the office of Governor Sisolak who gave us this statement:

"The Board of Examiners approved an agenda item which would allow the addition of three more members to the Dignitary Protection Detail. The expenditure must go before the Interim Finance Committee before it is finalized.

As mentioned in the agenda items, the request from the Department of Public Safety stems from a recent assessment of the Dignitary Protection operation by the Capitol Police Chief which showed the need to expand the protective team."

A department memo cited “various national threat alerts” and referenced two incidents in which Sisolak and Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo were separately accosted and verbally attacked in public.

Sisolak, a Democrat, is running for re-election this year, while Lombardo is a candidate for the Republican nomination for governor.