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Justice: Prisons to Step Up Anti-Rape Efforts
Channel 2 NewsThe White House on Thursday ordered federal, state and local prisons, jails and detention facilities to step up the fight against prison rape, issuing mandatory screening, enforcement and prevention regulations in hopes of reducing sexual victimization...Tags: Barack Obama, Criminal Laws, Punishment, Crime, Law and Justice, Eric Holder
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Cook Inlet Lease Sale Raises Millions
Channel 2 NewsIn just a few hours on Wednesday morning, the state of Alaska made almost $7 million. The source: the sale of Cook Inlet Oil and Gas leases. Ever since oil was discovered in the Kenai Peninsula in the 1950’s, lease sales have become a much...Tags: Science, Companies and Corporations, Energy Resources, Environmental Issues, Crime, Law and Justice
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Assembly To Decide On Indoor Smoking Ban Exemption
Channel 2 NewsThe Anchorage Assembly is scheduled to hear public testimony on Tuesday evening about a proposed measure that would grant certain private establishments an exemption from the city's indoor smoking ban. It began with the Fraternal Order of Eagles, a...Tags: James Stewart, Civil Laws, Crime, Law and Justice, Health and Safety at Work, Health
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Channel 2 News Investigates: Alaska's Child Porn Epidemic
Channel 2 NewsWhile in jail, awaiting sentencing for charges related to the possession of child pornography, Anchorage inmate Troy McKenzie continued to self-medicate himself with a mixture of newspaper and magazine cutouts of young children. This day of discovery had...Tags: Sean Parnell, Regional Authority, Elections, Criminals, Trials
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Governor, Attorney General Back House Bill to Change Alaska's Self-Defense Laws
Tonight (tuesday) momentum seems to be building for a change in Alaska's 3-decade-old self-defense law. That after the state's attorney general -- and the governor -- said they both supported House Bill 80. It's a measure which would alter the...Tags: Sean Parnell, Regional Authority, Ken Hollis, Politics, U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary
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Kenai Judge Throws Out Texting-While-Driving Case
Channel 2 NewsA Kenai judge says the 2008 law intended to make texting-while-driving illegal is not enforceable. The state’s screen device law does not include the word "text." Lawmakers say by not mentioning texting in the part of the bill allowing people to...Tags: Transportation Industry, Crime, Law and Justice, Mike Chenault, Judges, National Transportation Safety Board
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Alaska Joins Several States In Cigarette Label Lawsuit
Channel 2 NewsSeveral states and U.S. territories are weighing in on a lawsuit over proposed graphic cigarette warning labels that include a sewn-up corpse of a smoker and a picture of diseased lungs, saying the federal government should be allowed to require the...Tags: Altria Group, Inc., Companies and Corporations, Respiratory Disease, Human Body, Washington, DC
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DNR Commissioner: New Mission Statement Isn't Philosophical Change
The Associated PressA state commissioner on Tuesday tried to allay criticism from Alaska conservation groups and some lawmakers who say proposed changes to the Department of Natural Resources' mission statement indicates a pro-development bent. The previous statement says...Tags: Conservation, Energy Resources, Environmental Issues, Natural Resources, Crime, Law and Justice
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Alaska Announces Settlement with Debt Collector NCO Financial Systems
Channel 2 NewsAlaska and 18 other states have reached a settlement with debt collector NCO Financial Systems, Inc. (NCOF) resolving allegations of deceptive and unfair debt collection practices. The State of Alaska will receive a share of $26,562. NCOF has agreed to...Tags: Civil Laws, Consumers, Crime, Law and Justice, Finance, Economy, Business and Finance
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Possible Protests over New Anchorage Sidewalk Ordinance
The new sidewalk ordinance the Anchorage Assembly passed a week ago could be headed for its first challenge.
When the law takes effect on December 22nd, it would make it illegal to sit or lie down on downtown sidewalks. The assembly voted 7-4 in favor...Tags: Television, Civil Rights, Judges, Radio, Safety of Citizens
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Alaska's Parental Notification Lawsuit Heads to Trial
A Superior Court Judge says he will allow Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest to argue it's entire case in the lawsuit it filed against Alaska over the Parental Notification law.
Judge John Suddock denied the state's motion for a summary...Tags: Social Issues, Family Planning, Judges, File Sharing, Medical Procedures and Tests
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Alaska's Prisons Filling Fast
Channel 2 NewsThe Goose Creek Correctional Center, which cost $250 million to build, is expected to be open in 2012, but it may only be a few years before the Mat-Su prison is full. The Department of Corrections told lawmakers today that the number of drug related...Tags: Jerry Madden, Drugs and Medicines, Justice System, Prisons
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