A North Las Vegas man has filed a civil lawsuit in July accusing the Clark County School District and one of its school police officers of using excessive force during a traffic stop last year near Legacy High School. The complaint focuses on an April 10, 2025 encounter and says it left him with concussion symptoms, multiple lacerations and labral tears that required separate surgeries on each shoulder.
Plaintiff Robert Scalise names Officer Daniel Ciarciaglini and CCSD in the suit, alleging Ciarciaglini used unnecessary force and arrested him for obstruction at the scene. The complaint says Scalise suffered concussion symptoms, abrasions, neck pain, abdominal lacerations and labral tears in both shoulders that later required surgery, and it alleges Ciarciaglini had been the subject of more than two dozen internal-affairs inquiries. North Las Vegas municipal court records show Scalise was cited for driving 1 to 10 mph over the speed limit in a school zone and that the case was dismissed in January, as reported by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Records and transparency
Scalise’s lawsuit lands in the middle of an ongoing fight over how much the public gets to see of school-police investigative files in Nevada. In March 2026, the Nevada Supreme Court ruled that much of an agency’s internal-investigation file is confidential under state law, and CCSD has faced litigation and public scrutiny over body-worn camera footage and how it handles internal probes, according to The Nevada Independent.
Officer and district
Public payroll records list Daniel Ciarciaglini as a CCSD school-police officer for 2025. The Clark County School District Police Department is responsible for traffic and patrol duties around district campuses and school zones, and district pages describe traffic enforcement as part of CCSDPD’s responsibilities. The Police Officers Association that represents CCSD officers has long used attorney Adam Levine in disputes and representation of law-enforcement unions in Nevada, and Levine’s biography details that background and experience. (GovSalaries; Clark County School District; Adam Levine.)
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