Governor proposes new Alaska anti-crime legislation as election nears

Gov. Bill Walker's administration on Monday unveiled several new pieces of public-safety legislation, much of it aimed at closing loopholes related to sex crimes and strengthening penalties for drug traffickers.

Walker rolled out the proposals at a news conference along with heads of other agencies as part of his administration's ongoing "public safety action plan."

"These are just the announcements of the legislation we intend to seek this next session," Alaska Attorney General Jahna Lindemuth said at the press conference.

Among the proposals: require that people who are registered sex offenders in other states also register as sex offenders in Alaska if they move here; increase penalties against adults who commit sex offenses against victims ages 13 to 15; make sending unsolicited sexual images a crime; and make causing unwanted contact with semen a sex offense.

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