For several years, Rich Curtner was one of the people in Anchorage pushing for the police department to have body cameras. He’s a retired attorney who works with the Alaska Black Caucus and the Alaska Coalition for Justice.
As the body camera process was ongoing, he said he went to the Assembly’s Public Safety Committee meetings to see what other conversations community members were having around police accountability.
“I didn’t get anything out of it,” Curtner said. “It wasn’t very active. And so I didn’t… I went to a couple meetings, and then I just quit going.”…