Julie Strandberg: Nevada’s Watchdog in the Cartel’s Kennel
Originally published: 2025-09-21
The law is clear
Nevada’s Ethics in Government Law (NRS 281A) demands that public officers and employees disclose conflicts of interest, abstain when their private ties could influence their judgment, and never use their public positions to secure unwarranted advantages. Board staff and members are also bound by Nevada’s Open Meeting Law and Public Records Act, which guarantee transparency in how decisions are made.
On paper, that system protects the public. In practice, Nevada’s Chiropractic Physicians’ Board has allowed its own Executive Director, Julie Strandberg, to slip into a conflict of interest so glaring it undermines the very idea of impartial regulation.
Strandberg’s dual role
In March 2024, the Federation of Chiropractic Licensing Boards (FCLB) wrote to Strandberg:
“Dr. Campion informed me that you have indicated an interest to serve on the RCSP committee. Thank you so much. The board will vote on your addition to the committee at our next meeting at the end of April.” – Jon Schwartzbauer, FCLB
That “RCSP committee” is the group overseeing the Recognized Chiropractic Specialty Program (RCSP), FCLB’s latest scheme to decide which postgraduate specialties “count.”
At the same time, the Chiropractic Physicians’ Board of Nevada (CPBN), where Strandberg is Executive Director, put RCSP adoption on its July 2025 agenda:
“Addition of language to accept the Recognized Chiropractic Specialty Program (RCSP).”
So Strandberg was both helping run RCSP at FCLB and staffing the board considering whether to hand state recognition over to RCSP.
Why it matters
Under Nevada law:
NRS 281A.400(2) prohibits public officers from using their positions to secure unwarranted privileges for themselves or others.
NRS 281A.410 bars them from representing private interests before their own agencies.
NRS 281A.420 requires disclosure of any conflict that could affect independence of judgment, on the record, before acting.
Yet there is no evidence Strandberg ever made such a disclosure on the record of CPBN. No board minutes show approval of her FCLB committee role. When asked under Nevada’s Public Records Act for correspondence about RCSP, Strandberg herself handled the request and claimed almost no records existed.
“Simply put, we provided what we had, and we have nothing else to provide.” – Julie Strandberg, June 4, 2024
The very official with a conflict controlled the disclosure about that conflict.
The larger web: FCLB, NBCE, and RCSP
The FCLB and the National Board of Chiropractic Examiners (NBCE) are not separate empires. They share board members, committees, and priorities. The FCLB runs PACE (continuing education approval) and now RCSP (specialty recognition). The NBCE sells the licensing exams states require. Together, they reinforce each other’s monopoly positions while state boards adopt their frameworks wholesale.
In Nevada, the NBCE’s Vice President, Jason Jaeger, also serves as CPBN’s Secretary–Treasurer. He presented AB 513 in the legislature, a bill that locked NBCE exams and the NBCE’s SPEC exam into Nevada law. Now Strandberg is lined up to import RCSP into Nevada’s regulations.
It’s a pattern: NBCE controls entry and re-entry, FCLB decides which specialties count, and the state board enforces both, with board insiders wearing multiple hats.
The absurdity
Imagine if the head staffer of Nevada’s gaming commission sat on a private casino board, then helped the commission adopt that casino’s rules as law. Or if the DMV director sat on a private testing company’s committee while the DMV required that company’s exams.
That’s what’s happening here.
“Once your board decides to allow RCSP programs, you make RCSP an authorized agency… Any RCSP Specialty Program is automatically approved for Specialty Program recognition in your state.” – RCSP Summary for Licensing Boards
In short, Nevada will no longer decide what chiropractic specialties it recognizes. FCLB will. And its own board’s executive director is already helping FCLB make those decisions.
The bottom line
The Ethics law exists to prevent exactly this kind of entanglement. Yet in Nevada, the safeguards seem to have failed. Strandberg joined RCSP while CPBN was preparing to adopt RCSP. She apparently made no disclosure, and she processed public records requests about her own conflict.
This isn’t protecting the public. It’s protecting the cartel. And unless chiropractors demand accountability, RCSP will become the next choke point in a system already dominated by NBCE, FCLB, and their allies.
Unity is not the problem. Unchecked conflicts of interest are.
