The Alaska Black Caucus is suing the Municipality of Anchorage over the city’s failure to put body-worn cameras on police officers more than two years after voters approved their purchase and implementation.
on Wednesday. Its attorneys argue that the city and the police department are “thwarting the process by proffering one excuse after another, with no end in sight.”
Anchorage police spokeswoman Renee Oistad said the department will host a news conference related to the lawsuit on Thursday morning. Voters chose to approve a $1.8 million dollar tax levy in April 2021 for the purchase and use of body-worn cameras by Anchorage police. The effort to get the cameras has been delayed numerous times, through three police chiefs. The Anchorage Police and the Anchorage Police Department Employees Association, the union for officers, have been locked in negotiations since last year, opting to bring in an outside arbitrator to settle the dispute. Officials have said a main concern is whether officers
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