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Veterans Treatment Courts — Which Courts Run One, and Which Counties Have None
The judiciary’s administrative office publishes a directory of every specialty court in the state. Seven courts list a veterans docket, and every one of them sits in Clark or Washoe County. The overview page counts six veterans treatment programmes among 84 specialty courts statewide.
Verified August 23, 2026
What this benefit is
The judiciary’s administrative office publishes a directory of every specialty court in the state. Seven courts list a veterans docket, and every one of them sits in Clark or Washoe County. The overview page counts six veterans treatment programmes among 84 specialty courts statewide.
What it's worth: A veterans docket instead of an ordinary prosecution — in seven courts, in two counties
- The judiciary states there are 84 specialty court programmes in the state, 64 of them funded by the administrative office of the courts, and that the mix includes 6 veterans treatment programmes.
- The directory of specialty courts lists a veterans docket at the Eighth Judicial District Court, Henderson Municipal Court, Las Vegas Justice Court, Las Vegas Municipal Court, North Las Vegas Justice Court, the Second Judicial District Court, and Reno Municipal Court.
- Five of those seven are in Clark County and two are in Washoe County. No other county in the directory lists a veterans docket.
- Two of the seven are titled "Veterans Court" rather than "Veterans Treatment Court" — at Las Vegas Municipal Court and North Las Vegas Justice Court — and the Reno Municipal listing pairs the veterans court with a court alcohol and marijuana outreach programme on one telephone line.
- The judiciary defines a specialty court programme as one established by a court to facilitate testing, treatment and oversight of certain persons over whom the court has jurisdiction and who the court has determined suffers from a mental illness or abuses alcohol or drugs.
- The judiciary describes specialty courts generally as offering non-violent substance-abusing offenders an alternative to incarceration, with frequent drug testing, frequent court appearances and tightly structured treatment.
- A funding and policy committee, active since 2003, oversees the application process by courts, sets minimum programme and funding criteria, and recommends how funds are distributed.
- No eligibility criteria specific to a veterans docket — offences accepted, service required, or what completion earns — are published on either page read this session.
Who is entitled to it
- The docket takes the veteran defendant.
- You served in the armed forces.
- Your home is in Nevada.
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How to claim it
Deadline: As early in the case as possible — referral happens before disposition- 1Check whether the court holding your case is one of the seven. If it is not, a veterans docket is not available to you in that court, whatever anyone says about the state having them.
- 2Look at which court the charge is in, not which county you live in. A municipal charge and a justice court charge in the same city can go to different programmes.
- 3Ring the number in the judiciary’s directory rather than the general court switchboard — several of the veterans dockets publish their own line.
- 4Contact the statewide specialty court programme office if you cannot work out where to start; the administrative office publishes a telephone number and an e-mail address for exactly that.
- 5Get the discharge document to defence counsel early. Referral decisions are made quickly and the service evidence has to be there.
- 6Ask in writing what completion earns in that court. Nothing published by the judiciary states a consequence of completion, so the answer is local practice.
- 7Expect a demanding programme. The judiciary describes frequent drug testing, frequent court appearances and a tightly structured regimen — it is an alternative to incarceration, not a lighter touch.
- 8A department veterans service officer can help gather the service and treatment evidence, at no cost.
- Form
- Referral into the court’s specialty programme
- File with
- The court where the charge is pending, through defence counsel
- Documents you will need
- dd214
- No renewal
- Once granted it does not need renewing.
CorrectionThe judiciary says specialty court programmes exist in every county, urban and rural. That is true of specialty courts as a whole and not of veterans dockets: on the directory read this session, every veterans docket is in Clark or Washoe County.
Worth knowingThe overview counts six veterans treatment programmes; the directory lists seven courts with a veterans docket. Both figures are given here as published. The likely explanation is that a court funded for a programme and a court running a docket are counted differently, but nothing read this session settles it.
Known gapNo statutory eligibility gate was read. The state statute host refused every request this session, to a plain fetch and to a real browser alike, so who qualifies, which offences are accepted, and whether completion earns dismissal or a sealed record are all unresolved.
Sources
- authority · published policyAdministrative Office of the Courts — Find a Specialty Court (court-by-court directory with telephone numbers, listing a veterans docket at the Eighth Judicial District Court, Henderson Municipal Court, Las Vegas Justice Court, Las Vegas Municipal Court, North Las Vegas Justice Court, the Second Judicial District Court and Reno Municipal Court)
- operating · published policyAdministrative Office of the Courts — Specialty Court Program Overview (84 programmes, 64 funded by the office, 6 veterans treatment programmes, definition of a specialty court, funding and policy committee active since 2003, statewide programme contact)
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