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AP AK Daily News WatchMoved: 5/8/2008 04:52Latest Alaska news, sports, business and entertainment:<
SEX OFFENDER TREATMENT:
ACLU argues that state must provide sex offenders treatment while in prison
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - The American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska is arguing that the state must make treatment for sex offenders available to any prisoner who wants it.
The state has ended all sex offender treatment for inmates.
Jason Brandeis is an ACLU attorney.
He says failure to provide treatment adds up to a disregard of the state Constitution and --quote--- "an abdication of the Department of Correction's responsibility to protect the public."
A trial court judge had ordered in-prison treatment and the ACLU urged the Court of Appeals to uphold those orders.
DOGS RESCUED:
25 emaciated dogs taken from property near Palmer
PALMER, Alaska (AP) - Twenty-five emaciated dogs have been rescued in the last two days from two properties on Lazy Mountain by the Matanuska-Susitna Borough Animal Care.
Officials say many of the dogs are so thin and dehydrated that they need intravenous fluids. Many had a variety of injuries.
They say the dogs, all husky mixes, were confiscated from Doug Bartko. They say several dead dogs were also found on Bartko's property.
Anchorage TV station KTUU says Bartko is a former musher who ran the Iditarod 24 years ago.
Animal Care has cited Bartko for five counts of interference with an investigation and ten counts of failure to provide humane animal care.
Additional charges are pending.
Officials say the case has pushed the dog population over capacity at the shelter.
They are reducing adoption fees as a result.
ALASKA HOUSE:
Web site flap prompts Alaska Democrat to give up House race
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Democratic congressional candidate Jake Metcalfe has dropped out of the race, saying a former campaign worker was linked to an Internet smear aimed at a rival.
Metcalfe says he had known nothing about a scheme to redirect Internet users searching for fellow Democrat Ethan Berkowitz to bogus sites intended to harm Berkowitz's candidacy.
He added, --quote-- "It appears that a former campaign worker was involved in these acts, and I condemn them."
Metcalfe's former campaign manager, Dana Krawchuk, claimed that his political adviser Bill Scannell talked about such a scheme last year in front of her and Metcalfe.
Scannell has denied establishing the fake Web sites but he resigned last week, saying the allegations were hurting Metcalfe.
Metcalfe is former chairman of the Democratic Party in Alaska. He says he takes responsibility and apologized to Berkowitz yesterday (Wednesday).
Berkowitz says it's time to move past the Web site flap and talk about "the direction the state is taking."
JUNEAU ENERGY CRUNCH:
Juneau rate payers win small victory from utility regulators
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - Some Juneau utility customers will get a small reprieve in their electric bills.
They won't have to pay higher utility rates for the entire month of April.
Instead the high rates will be calculated from April 16th.
That's the date avalanches wiped out transmission towers from the Snettisham hydropower project and forced the city onto diesel generators.
The Regulatory Commission of Alaska on Wednesday approved the request from Juneau's power company, Alaska Electric Light and Power, to change the date.
The company said it was responding to concerns that the increased tariff should only apply to power consumed after the avalanches when many residents started conserving energy.
The new higher rates should show up on bills issued May 16th.
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