LAS VEGAS ( FOX5 ) — Law enforcement across Nevada is feeling the impact of the cyberattack on the state.
“They may have 8 or 10 or 15 people out there that they’re having to keep track of on a little piece of paper,” explained Nye County Sheriff Joe McGill to FOX5.
With state computer systems down, it’s a challenge to keep track of deputies’ locations in Nye County , one of the largest counties in the country.
McGill says outages have happened in the past but in all his years in law enforcement, key systems have never been down for as long - the outage going on three days now. McGill also has no idea when the state systems will be restored.
“It is greatly affecting us every day… anything that is interfacing to the state is down. So, we cannot run drivers licenses, we cannot run li