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Anchorage Rebuilds Its Prosecutor’s Office After Our Reporting Revealed Hundreds of Criminal Case Dismissals (www.propublica.org)

submitted 4 days ago by pelespirit@sh.itjust.works to c/politics@sh.itjust.works

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Days after the investigation came out, the state of Alaska announced it would help prosecute city cases to avoid speedy-trial dismissals.

But those state prosecutors are no longer needed. According to the city, the municipal prosecutor’s office now has a full staff of 12 “frontline” prosecutors who take cases to trial, plus a supervisor and an attorney who files motions and appeals. The only vacancy, they said, is a supervisory role: deputy municipal prosecutor.

That amounts to a vacancy rate of about 7% in the prosecutor’s office. In contrast, more than 40% of city prosecutor positions were vacant as of mid-2024, according to a city spokesperson.

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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago

I bet Propublica, occasionally Miami Herald, and the some of the tech pubs are just tired, they seem to be the only ones doing investigative reporting.