Advocates in Anchorage are gathering signatures for their proposed ballot measure to establish an inspector general for the city.
Michael Patterson is an organizer with the Party for Socialism and Liberation Anchorage, the group that started the petition. He said the goal is to provide more accountability and oversight of the Anchorage Police Department.
“What we’re trying to do with this petition is that we are trying to create an apparatus, or a mechanism for the public that if APD does something and you want to make a complaint, it’s not to APD, it’s not to the state of Alaska,” Patterson said. “It is to an independent entity.”…