Worked in Carson City? Saw the meeting?
Pay for Play Nevada operates on public records — but the public record by itself almost never tells the whole story. The lobbyist who knows which client paid which legislator's bar tab knows it because they were there. We are interested in what you saw, what you signed, what you watched happen.
What we accept
- Pointers to undocumented public records. "Check the Clark County clerk file from May 2023" is exactly the kind of tip we can act on.
- Discrepancies between what's filed and what actually happened. If the lobbyist registration says X but the meeting was about Y — that's a Tier D divergence flag.
- Pattern leads. "Politician A always sponsors a bill on topic X after a contribution from Donor B." That's exactly what our auditor exists to verify.
- Corrections. Wrong dollar amount. Wrong date. Wrong attribution. We want to fix it before someone else uses our page as a source.
What we do NOT accept
- Allegations of crime without a court of record filing.
- Personal grudges, family disputes, or workplace conflicts unrelated to public-records pay-for-play.
- Material covered by attorney-client privilege from a side you are not on.
- Sealed records you are not authorized to share.
How to send a tip
This domain does not maintain an inbound email address. All tips and corrections route through our sister-site whistleblower infrastructure:
- Encrypted whistleblower portal — Nevada Whistleblowers at nevadawhistleblowers.com (uses SecureDrop-style intake, hosted independently of any NV agency or party committee).
- Direct correction — for factual fixes only (typos, wrong dollar amounts, misattribution), file via NPE's tips page, which feeds the same editorial team.
How we protect a source
- We do not retain IP addresses, browser fingerprints, or referrer headers tied to a tip submission.
- We do not respond to subpoenas, demands, or requests to identify a source. Period.
- We do not publish details that could uniquely identify a source unless the source has expressly approved publication.
- If we receive material that we believe has been stolen, illegally obtained, or violates a non-disclosure agreement we are not party to, we evaluate publication under standard public-interest journalism principles — and we tell the source when we decline.
What happens after you tip us
- An editor reviews the tip and runs the public-record search needed to verify or rule it out.
- If verified, the relevant page on this site, NPE, or NCC is updated within 14 days. Corrections (factual fixes) usually happen the same day.
- If verified but the public-record paper trail isn't yet sufficient for our standard, the lead is added to a research queue and re-checked quarterly.
- If we cannot verify or rule out, we tell you. We do not publish unverified claims as a way to "get the story out there."