She was offered $11 an hour. All she had to do was pass a background check. It turned up a 14-count criminal indictment. Kathleen Casey had been charged with larceny in a scam against an elderly ...

Lance Pruitt, at the time noted Alaska's "steadfast tradition of the ... provided to the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System, which is used by licensed gun sellers to determine ...

The bill allows the Alaska Police Standards Council to work with villages to conduct background checks for future police officers. But for tribal police officers, it will be voluntary. Walker’s ...

Steven Wells, who also is a past president of the Alaska criminal lawyers association, agreed — to a point. “It is incumbent on the AG’s office to run a background check, but they aren’t ...

That led him to believe that the police regulatory board had not been able to conduct background checks on most officers hired in Alaska's smallest communities. But opinions on the ground about ...