Sec. 44.41.020. Powers and duties of department.
(a) The Department of Public Safety shall administer functions relative to the protection of life and property, including functions relating to transfer of a firearm. The department may enter into agreements with nonprofit organizations and federal and local government agencies to train personnel of those agencies in the protection of life and property. The department […]
Sec. 44.41.021. Grant authority.
The Department of Public Safety may award grants necessary or incidental to the performance of the duties and execution of the powers of the division of fire prevention.
Sec. 44.41.025. Fingerprints.
(a) The Department of Public Safety may maintain an automated fingerprint system. (b) The commissioner of public safety may establish by regulation and the Department of Public Safety may charge a reasonable fee to be paid by a person requesting information from the Alaska automated fingerprint system and by a person submitting fingerprints under (d) […]
Sec. 44.41.035. DNA identification system.
(a) To support criminal justice services in this state, the Department of Public Safety shall establish a deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) identification registration system. (b) The Department of Public Safety shall collect for inclusion into the DNA identification registration system a blood sample, oral sample, or both, from (1) a person convicted in this state of […]
Sec. 44.41.045. Reports and records concerning involuntary commitment and adjudication of mental illness or mental incompetence.
(a) Upon receiving information under AS 47.30.907, the Department of Public Safety shall transmit the information to the United States Department of Justice for inclusion in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System established under P.L. 103-159, 107 Stat. 1536 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act). (b) In transmitting information to the National Instant Criminal Background […]
Sec. 44.41.050. Uniform homicide reporting.
(a) A law enforcement agency shall report each homicide or suspected homicide committed within the jurisdiction of the agency to the Department of Public Safety within 25 days of the homicide’s discovery. The report shall be on a form approved by the commissioner of public safety and must contain information as determined by the commissioner […]
Sec. 44.41.060. Missing vulnerable adult prompt response and notification plans.
(a) The Department of Public Safety, in cooperation with the Department of Military and Veterans’ Affairs, shall, using statewide and local radio and television broadcasts, newspapers, and other communications media, (1) develop and implement missing vulnerable adult prompt response and notification plans for use by law enforcement agencies, groups, and persons to locate a vulnerable […]
Sec. 44.41.065. Sexual assault examination kits.
(a) [See delayed amendment note.] When a law enforcement agency collects a sexual assault examination kit under AS 18.68.010, the agency shall (1) within 30 days after the agency collects the sexual assault examination kit, send the sexual assault examination kit to an accredited laboratory in coordination with the Department of Public Safety or a […]
Sec. 44.41.070. Report on untested sexual assault examination kits.
(a) By September 1 of each year, each law enforcement agency and state department charged with the maintenance, storage, and preservation of sexual assault examination kits shall conduct an inventory of untested sexual assault examination kits and report, in writing, to the Department of Public Safety the number of untested sexual assault examination kits in […]
Sec. 44.41.010. Commissioner of public safety.
The principal executive officer of the Department of Public Safety is the commissioner of public safety.