Michael Heyman
165:04 - 165:26
“even just within the last few months, we've gotten authorization based on Attorney General Todd Blanchard's visit to hire a tribal justice prosecutor, and that person we are in the process of hiring right now. The idea and intent is for that person to be exclusively focused on bringing cases that arise out of our rural communities, violent crime cases.”
- Speaker
- Michael Heyman
- Timestamp
- 165:04 – 165:26
- Transcript
- Facebook video by Native Federation
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
- Captured at
- October 23, 2026
From the transcript
So we have a number of resources, and this slide is actually even outdated already with respect to the people that we have that are attempting to address MMIP and violent crime issues in our rural community. You know, a couple of them are listed here, and they're in the room today. Mandy McKenzie, a tribal liaison that's from Fairbanks, as well as Deeja Shield, our tribal victim assistance, and then of course, Ingrid. But even just within the last few months, we've gotten authorization based on Attorney General Todd Blanchard's visit to hire a tribal justice prosecutor, and that person we are in the process of hiring right now. The idea and intent is for that person to be exclusively focused on bringing cases that arise out of our rural communities, violent crime cases.
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