On Saturday September 22th the AGJA will gather with signs at Walgreens from 16:30-18:30 in Soldotna. There will be signs available to show support for Alaska Grand Jurors right to investigate. Help shine light on corrupt state officials. The more people who care the better the system oversight will become. Protect your families rights to question government processes. Stop the limitations of SCO No. 1993.
Alaska Grand Jurors Association supports the right of grand jurors to investigate as is laid out in the Alaska State Constitution. Article 1, section 8 of the Alaska Constitution states, “The power of grand juries to investigate and make recommendations concerning the public welfare or safety shall never be suspended.” The Alaska Constitution gives grand juries the right to investigate and make recommendations concerning the public welfare or safety; it does not provide that a citizen has a right to have a grand jury investigate a matter that the citizen thinks is important. Alaskan citizens have never had a constitutional right to bring any issue directly to a grand jury for investigation. The Constitution does not state or imply that a citizen who is unhappy with something has the right to take that issue to a grand jury to investigate. The few grand jury investigations that have occurred in Alaska were all brought to the grand jury by the Department of Law. However, as described below, there is a procedure for a citizen to make a request for the grand jury to investigate matters of public welfare or safety.
This is also a reminder that Judge Murphy’s trial call will be held October 4th at the Homer courthouse at 10AM. This hearing is being held in Judge Thomas Matthews courtroom as a visiting judge and is supposed to be livestreamed…
