WASHINGTON, D.C. – In her continued effort to address the public safety crisis in rural Alaska, U.S Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) introduced the Alaska Tribal Public Safety Empowerment Act, legislation to empower tribes in Alaska to exercise the special domestic violence criminal jurisdiction on a pilot basis. Among domestic violence victims in Alaska, Native women […]
ANCHORAGE – On Friday, the ACLU of Alaska received an extremely callous deflection from the City of Nome in response to the ACLU’s September 24 letter seeking justice for Clarice “Bun” Hardy. As Nome officials have done repeatedly, they have chosen to continue to deny justice for Ms. Hardy, and countless other Alaska Native sexual […]
The Anchorage Police Department announced that an officer with the department has been placed on paid administrative leave following a reported Assault on September 30th. On October 11th after a supervisor initiated an automatic review of the incident, the officer, identified as 32-year-old Officer Cornelius Aaron Pettus, was charged with two counts of Assault IV. […]
A Wasilla man was held without bail on Tuesday afternoon after he was caught red-handed at a burglary on Mid Valley WWay in Houston, troopers say. A call reporting a possible burglary in progress was called in at 1:32 pm on Tuesday prompting an AST response. When they arrived at the scene in Houston they […]