Package of anti-crime bills greets lawmakers in Juneau
from the Anchorage Daily News: As lawmakers returned to Juneau for today’s start of the legislative session, the Parnell administration announced a package of anti-crime bills to support the governor’s 10-year plan to fight domestic violence and sexual assault.
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Sen. Hollis French, D-Anchorage and the chairman of Senate Judiciary Committee, said by phone from Juneau that he’s a big supporter of the new crime lab and promised to give all the governor’s bills a fair hearing. Both French and Parnell, a Republican, are running for governor.
French said he’s been working more than a year on a bill to require the preservation of evidence by law enforcement agencies, one prong of a measure in Parnell’s package that also provides for court-ordered DNA testing after a conviction.
“I haven’t compared the language and so forth but I just know we did a lot of work on ours to get … the chiefs of police, the Department of Law, the prosecutors, all OK with it. And so we’ve done a lot of groundwork on that,” French said.
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