The Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority is trying to change the laws that govern how it uses its principal funds. Some board members hope the legislation will pass soon enough that the organization does not have to undergo a special legislative audit.
Mental Health
School counselors help with things from academic support to grieving
Juneau school counselors say they serve as mediators, sources of information, confidants and much more.
Juneau Assembly bans homeless from sleeping downtown
Downtown merchants have complained of the homeless using shuttered storefronts as shelters. Those concerns were heard by a majority of the Assembly that voted 5-4 to pass the ordinance.
Privatization could save some money at API, not at youth centers
Consultants who studied the privatization for the state found that management of the institute, as well as operating the state’s juvenile justice detention centers, are better done by the state.
Bill would allow judges to order gun owners to forfeit weapons if found to be threat
The bill sponsor said the bill’s timing is unrelated to the Fort Lauderdale mass shooting.
Vote postponed over Juneau’s controversial ‘camping ordinance’
The Juneau Assembly heard more than 90 minutes of testimony from dozens of residents including merchants, social workers and homeless people themselves who all agreed on one thing: Juneau has a serious homeless problem. But speakers had radically different viewpoints.