Alaska crime

Firearm deaths include suicide, homicide and other intents. Safe-storage devices and suicide resources concern access to firearms and a subset of these deaths; creating a fund would not itself establish funding, device distribution or fewer deaths. This relationship does not establish causation. Actions after the measurement period cannot explain its earlier value.

Retained Alaska evidence context: Firearm deaths. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

Sec. 14.33.240. Parental notification. A school district may adopt a plan to notify the parents or guardians of a student of an incident of harassment, intimidation, or bullying involving the student or a threat of suicide by the student. A school district that notifies a parent or guardian about a threat of suicide under this section shall provide to the parent or guardian suicide prevention and crisis intervention resources, including information about how to (1) obtain a suicide risk screening or assessment from a health care professional; (2) limit a student's access to firearms and lethal medications; (3) securely store firearms, ammunition, and lethal medications, including in a safe storage device; and (4) request a free safe storage device from the firearm safe storage grant fund established under AS 44.21.070. […] Sec. 44.21.070. Firearm safe storage grant fund. (a) The firearm safe storage grant fund is established in the general fund. The department shall manage the fund and may use money in the fund without further appropriation to purchase firearm safe storage devices and distribute the devices at no cost to school districts or to hunter or firearm safety programs that are administered by a school district. Money in the fund does not lapse. The fund consists of money appropriated to the fund, including grant money the department receives for the purpose of providing to school districts firearm safe storage devices and funds to purchase firearm safe storage devices, and donations to the fund. (b) Nothing in this section creates a dedicated fund. (c) The department may adopt regulations under AS 44.62 (Administrative Procedure Act) to implement this section. (d) In this section, (1) "department" means the Department of Administration; (2) "firearm safe storage device" means a lock box, safe, cable lock, or other device that is used to prevent unauthorized access to a firearm or to store a firearm.

The FBI property-crime measure includes larceny-theft, burglary and motor-vehicle theft. The taking of property within this organized-theft proposal overlaps larceny-theft. Theft of services, wage theft and trafficking are excluded from this connection, and Alaska offense definitions do not equal FBI classifications. This relationship does not establish causation. Actions after the measurement period cannot explain its earlier value.

Retained Alaska evidence context: Reported property-crime rate. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

Sec. 11.46.115. Organized theft. (a) A person commits the crime of organized theft if the person, in coordination with a group of two or more persons, commits two or more instances of theft as defined in AS 11.46.100 and (1) the value of property or services taken on each occasion is $750 or more; or (2) the property is (A) a firearm or explosive; (B) taken from the person of another; (C) taken from a vessel and is vessel safety or survival equipment; (D) taken from an aircraft and the property is aircraft safety or survival equipment. (b) Organized theft is a class A felony.

The FBI measure depends on crimes reported to law enforcement. AS 11.56.767 covers witnesses to specified murders, kidnappings and sexual assaults or attempts, with defenses; murder and rape overlap components of the FBI measure, but kidnapping and failure to report are not themselves its four violent-crime categories. The proposed reporting penalty does not establish greater reporting or fewer crimes. This relationship does not establish causation. Actions after the measurement period cannot explain its earlier value.

Retained Alaska evidence context: Reported violent-crime rate. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

* Section 1. AS 11.56.767(d) is amended to read: (d) Failure to report a violent crime committed against an adult is a class B misdemeanor . * Sec. 2. The uncodified law of the State of Alaska is amended by adding a new section to read: APPLICABILITY. AS 11.56.767(d), as amended by sec. 1 of this Act, applies to offenses committed on or after the effective date of this Act.

Homicide deaths among Indigenous people are a subset of the all-population homicide mortality measure. Council creation and dissolution concern advisory work on investigations and public safety; missing persons are not all homicide victims, and the orders do not establish mortality effects. This relationship does not establish causation. Actions after the measurement period cannot explain its earlier value.

Retained Alaska evidence context: Homicide deaths. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

I, Mike Dunleavy, Governor of the State of Alaska, under the authority of Article III, Sections 1 and 24, of the Alaska Constitution, hereby rescind Administrative Order 329 establishing the first Governor’s Council on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIP Council) within The Office of the Governor, and dissolve the MMIP Council established by that Order. EFFECTIVE DATE This Order takes effect immediately. DATED this 25th day of July, 2023.

Homicide deaths among Indigenous people are a subset of the all-population homicide mortality measure. Council creation and dissolution concern advisory work on investigations and public safety; missing persons are not all homicide victims, and the orders do not establish mortality effects. This relationship does not establish causation. Actions after the measurement period cannot explain its earlier value.

Retained Alaska evidence context: Homicide deaths. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

I, Mike Dunleavy, Governor of the State of Alaska, under the authority of Article III, Sections 1 and 24, of the Alaska Constitution, hereby order the establishment of the first Governor’s Council on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIP Council) within The Office of the Governor. […] DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES The MMIP Council shall prepare a report for the Governor that: Provides recommendations for the development of a public awareness, education, and outreach campaign for affected communities. Provides recommendations for improving interagency cooperation relative to missing person protocols. Provides recommendations for improving public safety in tribal communities that have no law enforcement presence. Provide recommendations on ways to improve investigations, including data/information collection and sharing. The MMIP Council shall deliver its report to the Governor by October 15, 2022.

These describe the original enacted law provisions selected for this topic. Later amendments and current implementation require separate evidence.

• Section 1: Updates the repeat-conviction condition for first-degree criminally negligent burning, including specified misdemeanor burning offenses and similar laws; the two prior convictions must be within10 years.
• Section 3: Allows approved forestry/fire responders to enter public or private land when responding to actual or suspected wildland fire or administering the chapter, including investigation.
• Section 4: Prohibits interference with the authorized land access.
• Section 5: Retains the April 1–August 31 fire season and allows the commissioner to add periods and restrict fires, smoking, entry or land use when conditions warrant. It does not itself impose a particular2019closure.
• Section 6: Directs the commissioner to prescribe permit conditions by regulation for fires, burning devices and other activities or uses increasing fire danger.
• Section 7: Prohibits those activities without the permit prescribed by regulation.
• Section 8: Prohibits disposal of lighted tobacco, matches, fireworks and other burning material on forested land during fire season, a burn closure or restriction.
• Section 9: Requires clearing fire-carrying materials immediately around a fire started in or near forested land.
• Section 10: Requires totally extinguishing that fire before leaving.
• Section 11: Prohibits setting fire to forested land or flammable material on another person’s land without owner or lawful-occupant consent.
• Section 12: Requires due care against uncontrolled spread and every possible effort to extinguish knowingly set fires; prohibits leaving them unattended. In criminal proceedings, escape may be considered evidence of knowing conduct; it is not the former automatic presumption sustaining conviction.
• Section 13: Requires assistance when an authorized United States/state prevention, investigation or suppression official requests it and identifies official status.
• Section 14: Exempts officially directed backfires, burnouts and other burning or clearing from the listed fire-law provisions; the exclusion omits AS 41.15.045.
• Section 15: Separates knowing violations of AS 41.15.040–.130, class A misdemeanors, from violations without a culpable mental state, punishable by an AS 12.55 fine. It provides an exception for AS 41.15.150.
• Section 16: Defines first-degree criminal burning of forested land as violating the second-degree offense plus the specified fire provisions or regulations; it is a class B felony.
• Section 17: Defines second-degree criminal burning: knowingly setting a fire, criminally negligently permitting uncontrolled spread or failing to prevent spread, and burning forested land or flammable material on another person’s land; it is a class C felony.
• Section 19: Adopts AS 11.81.900 meanings for criminal negligence and knowingly.
• Section 20: Adds citation authority for persons designated under AS 41.15.950(a).
• Section 21: Exempts deadly-weapon disclosure under AS 11.61.220(a)(1)(A) to the peace officers described in AS 41.15.950(a)(1).
• Section 22: Requires the Supreme Court to establish a bail schedule allowing citation disposition without appearance, capped by the offense’s statutory maximum fine.
• Section 23: Repeals AS 41.15.080. The former provision and any later amendments require separate historical-authority review.
• Section 24: Allows DNR to adopt implementing regulations under the Administrative Procedure Act, effective no earlier than the implemented law. This is permission, not proof of adoption.
• Section 25: Requires the Supreme Court bail schedule within120 days after section22’s effective date; completed compliance remains separately unverified.
• Section 26: Makes sections24 and25 immediate under AS 01.10.070(c).
• Section 27: Prints July 1, 2018 for the remainder; the approval journal/digest identify actual effectiveness as July 21, 2018. Historical AS 01.10.070 and the conflicting January 2019forestry-report statement remain under review.

Direct criminal-justice provisions define forest-burning offenses, misdemeanor versus minor-violation penalties, felony levels, investigative access, citations and bail schedules. This historical enactment does not establish changes in reported crime, arrests or prosecutions.

Retained Alaska evidence context: housing-borrowing · reviewed policy-topic context · deficit-debt-interest · reviewed policy-topic context · Alaska crime and justice policy. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

Direct criminal-justice provisions define forest-burning offenses, misdemeanor versus minor-violation penalties, felony levels, investigative access, citations and bail schedules. This historical enactment does not establish changes in reported crime, arrests or prosecutions.