The 50-page crime bill combines wide-ranging policy changes. The ACLU of Alaska has flagged what it described as “significant constitutional concerns.”
Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy signs a wide-ranging crime bill into law on Thursday, July 11, 2024, in the state Department of Public Safety's hangar at Lake Hood in Anchorage. was consolidated with various provisions from other crime legislation. The omnibus crime bill broadly passed the Legislature on the last day of the session in May.HB 66 into law surrounded by members of his cabinet, a bipartisan group of legislators and crime victims who had advocated for the package to pass.
“Focusing on substance misuse prevention, ensuring that all Alaskans have access to high-quality treatment, and recovery support are more effective strategies that recognize this crisis for what it is — a crisis of public health,” the civil rights law firm said in “Grand juries cannot fulfill one of their key duties — to evaluate the truthfulness of testimony — if they do not hear firsthand witnesses, but instead receive only hearsay,” said Michael Garvey, the ACLU of Alaska’s advocacy director, inoutside Anchorage’s Loussac Library by Corey Ahkivgak, who had randomly attacked two other women months earlier. Ahkivgak had been found to be incompetent to stand trial and had been allowed to walk free after those earlier incidents.
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