Look up a Nevada plate
See whether other drivers have filed reports against a plate.
A plate with no reports comes back clean — that is the common result, and it is not an error.
Avoidance & safety rules
- Do not follow or pursue the vehicle, under any circumstances.
- Do not try to read or photograph the plate if doing so means getting closer or driving unsafely.
- Do not engage. No gestures, no eye contact, no reply to an aggressive driver.
- Keep your distance and let them pass. Pull over somewhere public before you make a call, or have a passenger call.
- Note details only if it is safe: make, model and colour, full or partial plate, direction of travel, and the exact location or mile marker.
Does a Jerk Alert report reach the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles? No — Jerk Alert filings are community records between drivers. They never reach the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles, any other government body, or law enforcement, and they do not replace the calls in sections 1 and 2. If you are in danger, call 911. The Terms prohibit following, approaching, or identifying another driver on any Jerk Alert platform.
Nevada bad driver reporting & safety guide
1. If it is happening now immediate danger
Emergency hotlines
- 911 — for a driver who is an active danger to other people right now. That is a police matter, and no app is a substitute for the call.
- No Nevada-specific line is listed here. We publish a patrol code only when a state police or DOT page carries it.
2. Reporting to Nevada law enforcement after the fact
Neither the hotlines above nor anything in this section is the licence-review route in section 3, and nothing filed on Jerk Alert reaches any of them.
Who takes the report in Nevada
- The non-emergency line of the Nevada city or metropolitan police department or county sheriff’s office with jurisdiction where it happened takes reports of dangerous driving that has already happened.
- Bring: the plate (full or partial) and state, the vehicle’s make, model and colour, the location, the date and time, the direction of travel, and what you saw.
- Expect a record rather than a ticket. An officer who did not witness the driving usually cannot cite for it, and what each agency acts on varies.
3. State DMV & licensing agency review
Public reporting accessNo — only a spouse or close relative can report a driver
The route exists, but only for people connected to the driver.
Who can file: A person 18 or older reporting their spouse or a relative within the third degree of consanguinity — NRS 483.363 — with a physician's or advanced practice registered nurse's affidavit attached. An unrelated witness, a friend or a neighbour cannot file this report at all.
Administrative fitness process
The details, for the people Nevada allows to file.
- Agency
- Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles
- Unit
- Central Services Division — Driver's License Assessment Team
- Form
- Request for Re-Evaluation (DMV-23A, 08/2026 — the file is still published at the old dld23a.pdf path)
- Where to send
- Nevada DMV, Central Services Division, Driver's License Assessment Team, 555 Wright Way, Carson City NV 89711
- Contact
- Las Vegas (702) 486-4368 option 1, 2 · Reno/Carson City (775) 684-4364 option 2 · fax (775) 684-4829
What information do I need to report a driver?
- The form must be accompanied by an affidavit from a physician — or, under the statute, an advanced practice registered nurse — concurring that the driver should be examined to determine whether they can safely operate a motor vehicle. Without it the request is incomplete; a relative cannot file alone.
- Your basis must be one of three things the statute allows: personal observation or physical evidence of a physical or medical condition with the potential to impair driving; personal knowledge that the driver's record shows unsafe operation of a motor vehicle; or an investigation by a law enforcement officer. The first two both need the physician's or nurse's affidavit.
- Identify the driver by name, address, Social Security number, date of birth and driver's licence number, tick what brought their difficulties to your attention (an accident, a traffic violation, or other), and describe in detail the nature of the disability and how it impairs their driving, with the date of the occurrence and the names of any witnesses.
- Give your own name, relationship to the driver, address, telephone number, driver's licence number and signature — the statute requires the first five, and the form asks for all of them. There is no anonymous route.
- The form is an affidavit and must be sworn: it ends 'Subscribed and sworn before me' before a notary public or a DMV representative. A DMV representative will do it at no charge.
- You may not file more than one report about the same driver within any 12-month period.
- Law enforcement officers and state agency representatives use a separate Request for Re-Examination.
Will the driver find out who reported them?
Not anonymous, and the law positively requires your report to be handed over. NRS 483.363(2)(c) says the report must be kept confidential — except as otherwise provided in NRS 239.0115, and except that “the report must be released upon request of the licensee or an order of a court of competent jurisdiction”. So the driver you reported can obtain the report, with your name, relationship, address and telephone number on it, simply by asking for it. The form makes the same point in the sentence you sign: “I agree and understand that if an administrative hearing is held based on my request for re-examination of this driver, I may be required to appear and testify.”
What can the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles do after a report?
- The DMV gives the driver at least five days' notice to submit to a medical examination to determine fitness to drive, with or without restrictions.
- Failure to answer or to submit to the examination may result in suspension or revocation; the driver may request reinstatement on completing DMV requirements.
- A DMV representative with good cause to believe a driver is incapacitated can order a Confidential Physician's Report (DLD-7).
- The driver may appeal a suspension or revocation at an administrative hearing — and if one is held on the strength of your request, the form warns that you may be required to appear and testify.
Statutory authority: NRS 483.363 (who may file; the required contents and signature; the three permitted bases and the corroborating physician's or advanced practice registered nurse's affidavit; confidentiality, subject to NRS 239.0115 and to release on the licensee's request or a court order; the one-report-per-licensee-per-12-month limit; and the Administrator's duty to prescribe the form and filing procedure). NRS 483.367 (the Department's duty to require an examination and act on such a report).
Do doctors have to report?
Nevada is a mandatory-reporting state: physicians and certain health care providers must report specific conditions affecting driving.
Nevada is one of 18 of 51 US jurisdictions where a witness unrelated to the driver has no confirmed way to report them to the licensing agency (the 51-location study). That gap is one reason Jerk Alert exists.
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