OFFICIALS LEGISLATION INTEREST GROUPS PUBLIC STATEMENTS COMMITTEES VETOES

Issue Position: Public Safety

Issue Position

Date: Jan. 1, 2020
Issues: Women Indigenous Peoples Criminal Justice

Strengthening public safety in rural Alaska, including increased federal funding to combat drug, alcohol and opioid abuse, as well as domestic violence and sexual abuse.
One-in-three Alaska villages have no local police. Our State Troopers and Village Public Safety Officers are understaffed and underfunded. More than 70 Alaska communities -- places with some of the highest rates of sexual assault in the U.S. -- have no local police protection. That means, unlike most anywhere else in the United States, emergency help is hours or even days away
Indigenous women are facing an epidemic of disappearances, homicide, violent crime, and trafficking, and the responsibility to stop it falls on all of us. Our leaders have failed these women and we need representatives actively working to protect them
I will work to ensure that the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) is reauthorized and strengthened in later iterations, strengthening tribal courts' authority to process offenders


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