Alaska
What Alaska's records show, how much of the state the FBI's data covers, and where the state publishes its own.
How Alaska handles a case
- Sets bail first
- Arresting, correctional, or pretrial officer on the statewide misdemeanor bail schedule; judicial officer for felonies
- Who that is
- Judges and others
- Release on a schedule
- Jail or police can release on a schedule
- Time to see a judge
- 24 hours
- Money bail
- Allowed
- Risk assessment
- AK-2SR (statewide)
- Prosecutor
- District attorney, statewide, appointed
- Public defense
- Statewide public defender
- Jails run by
- State
- Who decides release first
For misdemeanors, the arresting, correctional, or pretrial officer applies the court system's statewide misdemeanor bail schedule: most people are released on their own recognizance, and some listed charges carry small cash amounts. People arrested for felonies wait for a judicial officer, a superior court judge, district judge, or magistrate judge, at the first appearance.
Alaska Trial Courts, Statewide Misdemeanor Bail Schedule (2023)- Time to see a judge
An arrested person who is not cited and released must appear before a judicial officer without unnecessary delay and within 24 hours, counting weekends and holidays, absent compelling circumstances.
Alaska R. Crim. P. 5(a)(1)- Money bail
Judges start from release on personal recognizance or an unsecured bond. If that won't secure appearance or safety, they add the least restrictive conditions, which may include a cash or surety bond.
AS 12.30.011AS 12.30.006
Crime and arrests
No figures yet
FBI data coverage
- Population covered
- 99%
- of Alaska's people lived under an agency that reported to the FBI in 2025.
- Agencies on NIBRS
- 86%
- 32 of 37 agencies send incident detail. The rest send summary counts or nothing.
5 agencies not reporting through NIBRS
- Anchorage Police DepartmentCity
- Hoonah Police DepartmentCity
- Klawock Police DepartmentCity
- Sand Point Police DepartmentCity
- Whittier Police DepartmentCity
Counties and agencies: no data yet
Source: FBI Crime Data Explorer, pulled 2026-09-26.
State crime reporting
- Program
- Alaska Department of Public Safety, Criminal Records and Identification Bureau (state UCR program since June 1982)
- Annual report
- Crime in AlaskaLatest edition: 2025. Editions online 2019 to 2025.
- Online portal
- No state portal found.
- What changed
- DPS moved to a new WordPress site in 2026 and re-posted only 2019-2025. The report is still titled a Summary Reporting System report: because not every agency is on NIBRS, statewide figures are NIBRS converted back to SRS. For 2025 every agency except Anchorage PD reported in NIBRS.
Links and years checked 2026-09-26.
Alaska sources
- Alaska UCR Reports (Crime in Alaska)State · AK
Alaska Department of Public Safety · Incidents, Arrests · pdf · annual
DPS Criminal Records and Identification Bureau runs the state UCR program; annual Crime in Alaska PDF reports, usually released in the fall.
- Alaska Court System statistical reportsState · AK
Alaska Court System · Courts · pdf · annual
Court location within 4 judicial districts (no counties): felony and misdemeanor filings, dispositions, manner. FY11-FY25.
Alaska Judicial Council · Bail, Courts, Jails · pdf · annual
Annual reports (2023-2025) include pretrial release conditions, bail amounts, and pretrial population. PDF only.
Plus 83 national sources, from the FBI, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the Census Bureau, the courts, and others.