ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – The Anchorage Municipal Assembly approved a new regulatory framework late Wednesday night governing police surveillance technology, concluding months of debate over how strictly to curb the Anchorage Police Department’s use of automated license plate readers and its Real-Time Crime Center.
Following multiple late-night session extensions, the Assembly voted 11-1 to pass the administration-backed substitute ordinance, AO 2026-108(S) as amended.
The approved ordinance establishes statutory privacy baselines, bans out-of-state data sharing to enforce laws against conduct legal in Alaska—such as reproductive health care—and creates mandatory public reporting and Assembly oversight over police technology contracts and policies…