Alaska will remain one of seven states without a checkpoint screening visitors to the Capitol building.
Visitors to the Alaska State Capitol won’t need to pass through an airport-style security checkpoint, at least for now. That’s after a committee on Thursday set aside a proposal that would have beefed up screening in Juneau .without a checkpoint screening visitors to the Capitol building.
“We need to be very careful before we restrict everyday Alaskans’ access to their capitol building — that we’re doing what’s necessary, but not more,” Kiehl said by phone.
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