Providence Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ announced that Anchorage Chief of Police Kenneth McCoy has been named as its first region chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer. McCoy is an alumnus of the UAA College of Health Justice Center.
When COVID-19 hit the Gulf States region in March 2020, state officials were swift to react in order to prevent the spread of the virus. One of those actions taken was to shut down in-person prison visitation, limiting the number of people who come in contact with the incarcerated population. For over a year, more than 70,000 people incarcerated in Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi were not able to visit with their loved ones, impacting both the prisoners and their family members.
The Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Justice Information Center's trooper staffing study, titled "Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ State Troopers C Detachment Patrol Staffing Study Final Report and Description of Police Incidents," was featured in an Anchorage Daily News article about how the AST understaffs rural Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ.
When alumnus Alexander Choi graduated from the Justice Center with a BA in Justice in Fall 2020, we asked him what's next. Short and sweet, he said, "Joining the Anchorage Police Department."
To students in UAA Justice Center instructor Glen Klinkhart’s Criminal Investigation course, the end of the semester is, quite literally, murder. For his lab practicum, Klinkhart—a homicide detective, true crime author, and computer forensics expert—stages the scene of his own murder in a UAA lecture hall and challenges the budding investigators in his class to solve the crime.
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