Security gets boost for New Year's Eve in Las Vegas

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Officials are urging New Year's Eve revelers in Las Vegas to leave bags, backpacks and strollers at home as police ready for hundreds of thousands of partiers to flood the casino-filled corridor on Thursday.

Lombardo said tips from the community about suspicious activity have tripled since the Paris attacks but there have been no credible threats.

Following the Paris attacks that killed 130 people, Lombardo said he attempted to work with the county's elected leaders to ban bags, backpacks and strollers from the Strip during the night or make them subject to search but couldn't arrange for an ordinance in time.

[...] the reminder to not bring bags and strollers — including encouraging casino-hotel operators to tell guests to keep their bags in their rooms — remained a request, not a requirement.

Tod Story, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada, said he understands heightened security concerns, but any ordinance barring bags and backpacks or mandating searches would need to include the public in the debate.