Nicholas Shepack

MSW. Nevada State Director Fines and Fees Justice Center. Return Strong Board Member. SWASC. All opinions are my own.

[Fines and Fees Justice Center @FinesandFeesJC]

💌Maintaining bonds with family and friends through letters serves as a vital emotional anchor for incarcerated people. However, many prison facilities across the country are moving to eliminate physical mail and replace it with scanned copies.

[Nicholas Shepack @ShepackNicholas]

@GallantD23 Can you clarify what “out of the 66 data centers in NV none of our communities have had an increase in power bills” means?

[Fines and Fees Justice Center @FinesandFeesJC]

BREAKING: $37.5 billion. That's the total financial relief delivered by fines and fees reform since 2018.
Fine and fee reform works - and now we have the numbers to prove it.
#TheCostWeNoLongerPay

[Nicholas Shepack @ShepackNicholas]

@tabitha_mueller It’s now “hateit”, one word.

[Fines and Fees Justice Center @FinesandFeesJC]

In a recent article in the Washingtonian Magazine, FFJC Co-Executive Director Priya Sarathy Jones discusses how traffic cameras in DC, and the fines resulting from traffic violations, do little to change the behavior of dangerous drivers.

[Nicholas Shepack @ShepackNicholas]

From Flock cameras, to @CityofReno's AI facial recognition arrests to the Department of Public Safety's warrantless tracking of our movement to the continued push for ATE it is abundantly clear that that our government has 0 interest in protecting our privacy.

[Nevada Independent @TheNVIndy]

Location data captured through apps on your phone may be winding up with police, who can map out the patterns of your life without a warrant. Nevada investigators quietly subscribed to a service this year that does just that.

@bella_tweetss reports: https://t.co/7GaFa6X8U5

[Nicholas Shepack @ShepackNicholas]

@alexishansenNV This will go great with @Irahansen’s bill to decrease the dig before you call depth to 2 inches.

[Nicholas Shepack @ShepackNicholas]

@calvertphoto @Aces Great shots as always! So good to have you out on the field!

[Fines and Fees Justice Center @FinesandFeesJC]

Tablets were introduced to Nevada state prisons in 2023 as a resource for those incarcerated. But the state has failed to follow state regulations that would make the tablets more affordable, leaving advocates to fight for basic compliance on established bulk pricing options.

[Fines and Fees Justice Center @FinesandFeesJC]

Update in Las Vegas 📣

The Clark County School District has decided to re-evaluate plans to add traffic cameras to school buses, which would ticket drivers who pass by while students get on and off.

Here’s why this is a welcome delay 👇

[Nicholas Shepack @ShepackNicholas]

@SteveSebelius @SpeakerYeagerNV @SouthwestAir If you have the card that lets you snag extra legroom seats 48 hours before your flight and you do it, you get to board in the first group and you get pistachios and a free drink. If you don’t good luck!

[Nicholas Shepack @ShepackNicholas]

@GallantD23 Hot take on my part, just hear me out, maybe the reason that Gen Alpha is not buying homes is that they are between the ages of 2 and 16? But what do I know? I’m unfamiliar with current daycare culture.

[Nicholas Shepack @ShepackNicholas]

@eric_neugeboren @Will_H_Adler stays on brand even in the campaign finance reports. Respect.

[Nicholas Shepack @ShepackNicholas]

@SteveSebelius @RealAnnieBlack @GallantD23 This would be by far the most entertaining primary of the cycle!

[Nicholas Shepack @ShepackNicholas]

@RalstonReports @repdinatitus She won’t have to worry about defending any legislation she sponsored.

[Nicholas Shepack @ShepackNicholas]

The flip flopping on corporate home ownership is a sight to behold.

Some people would eat a diet of straight glass if the big guy said he supported it.

That being said I hope there is some follow through on ending this awful practice.

[Nicholas Shepack @ShepackNicholas]

Every single present Assembly Republican voted against the special session bill that would have limited corporate buying of single family homes killing the bill. It did have unanimous support in the Senate. Where was this energy during the special session?

[Washoe County Republican Party @RealWashoeGOP]

“People live in homes, not corporations”

[Nicholas Shepack @ShepackNicholas]

@Roberts4Nevada @SteveSebelius @oelma__ What are you missing?

[Fines and Fees Justice Center @FinesandFeesJC]

Nevada still suspends licenses for unpaid fines & fees, turning court debt into a barrier to basic needs. In Las Vegas, residents told us how unaffordable court debt leads to impossible tradeoffs, missed rent, & the risk of losing their license.

💡 https://t.co/yV1214LcjL

[Nicholas Shepack @ShepackNicholas]

@News4Reno @Wendys @ChuckECheese wants their parking lot violence back.