The principal executive officer of the Department of Public Safety is the commissioner of public safety.

The Department of Public Safety may award grants necessary or incidental to the performance of the duties and execution of the powers of the division of fire prevention.

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(a) The Department of Public Safety shall administer functions relative to the protection of life and property, including functions relating to transfer of a firearm. The department may enter into agreements with nonprofit organizations and federal and local government agencies to train personnel of those agencies in the protection of life and property. The department may charge a reasonable fee for services provided under a training agreement or for services relating to transfer of a firearm.

(b) The department may enter into agreements with federal and local government agencies to provide a statewide criminal justice information system. Reasonable fees may be charged by the department to cover the costs of providing services under these agreements, including maintenance of terminal hardware and network connect charges.

(c) The department shall establish, and may require state and local law enforcement agencies to use, standardized methods of collecting and recording law enforcement and crime statistics.

(d) The Department of Public Safety may operate state housing in support of the department's statutory responsibilities and charge rent consistent with applicable collective bargaining agreements, or, if no collective bargaining agreement is applicable, competitive with market conditions.

(e) The Department of Public Safety shall supply necessary clerical and administrative services for the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board.

(a) The Department of Public Safety may maintain an automated fingerprint system.

(b) The commissioner of public safety may establish by regulation and the Department of Public Safety may charge a reasonable fee to be paid by a person requesting information from the Alaska automated fingerprint system and by a person submitting fingerprints under (d) of this section.

(c) The department may enter into the Alaska automated fingerprint identification system the fingerprints of a minor whose fingerprints are taken under AS 47.12.210 .

(d) Each of the following may submit a complete set of fingerprints of the person designated for inclusion in the Alaska automated fingerprint system:

(1) a person may submit the person's own fingerprints;

(2) the parent or guardian of a minor who is two years of age or older may submit the minor's fingerprints; and

(3) the guardian or conservator of a person under AS 13.26 may submit the fingerprints of the person protected by the guardian or conservator.

(e) The commissioner may maintain the fingerprint sets of minors who are under 14 years of age submitted under (d)(2) of this section in a file separate from the general file for all other fingerprints maintained under (a) of this section.

(f) Upon request by a person who is 18 years of age or older, the commissioner shall remove from the records of the Alaska automated fingerprint system the complete set of the person's fingerprints submitted by the parent or guardian of the person under (d)(2) of this section. The regulations must establish a procedure for the submission of a request under this subsection and for notification that the fingerprint set has been removed from the records in response to the request.

(a) A law enforcement agency shall report each homicide or suspected homicide committed within the jurisdiction of the agency to the Department of Public Safety within 25 days of the homicide's discovery. The report shall be on a form approved by the commissioner of public safety and must contain information as determined by the commissioner to be necessary to aid law enforcement personnel in comparing homicides and suspected homicides and discovering those that exhibit similar characteristics. If the Department of Public Safety determines that a homicide or suspected homicide meets the Violent Criminals Apprehension Program criteria, the department shall notify the law enforcement agency that submitted the report, and the agency shall complete and forward to the department within 30 days a Federal Bureau of Investigation Violent Criminals Apprehension Program form.

(b) The Department of Public Safety shall enter the information submitted under (a) of this section into a file and shall compare the information to information on other homicides or suspected homicides for the purpose of discovering similarities in criminal methods and suspect descriptions. If the Department of Public Safety finds homicides exhibiting similar criminal methods or suspect descriptions, the department shall notify the concerned law enforcement agencies of the discoveries.

(c) If a law enforcement agency terminates active investigation of a homicide or suspected homicide due to the arrest of a suspect, death of the primary suspect, or other reason, the agency shall notify the Department of Public Safety of the termination and the reason for the termination within 30 days following the termination.

(d) The Department of Public Safety shall participate in the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Violent Criminals Apprehension Program. The Department of Public Safety shall transmit each Violent Criminals Apprehension Program report received under (a) of this section concerning homicides or suspected homicides, discoveries under (b) of this section of homicides exhibiting similar criminal methods or suspect descriptions, and notices of and reasons for termination of investigations of homicides received under (c) of this section to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Violent Criminals Apprehension Program manager, at least on a quarterly basis.

(a) To support criminal justice services in this state, the Department of Public Safety shall establish a deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) identification registration system.

(b) The Department of Public Safety shall collect for inclusion into the DNA registration system a blood sample, oral sample, or both, from (1) a person convicted of a crime against a person or a felony under AS 11 or AS 28.35, (2) a minor 16 years of age or older, adjudicated as a delinquent for an act that would be a crime against a person or a felony under AS 11 or AS 28.35, if committed by an adult, (3) a voluntary donor, (4) an anonymous DNA donor for use in forensic validation, forensic protocol development, quality control, or population or statistical data bases, and (5) a person required to register as a sex offender or child kidnapper under AS 12.63. The department also may collect for inclusion into the DNA registration system a blood sample, oral sample, or tissue sample from crime scene evidence or from unidentified human remains. The DNA identification registration system consists of the blood, oral, or tissue samples drawn under this section, any DNA or other blood grouping tests done on those samples, and the identification data related to the samples or tests. Blood samples, oral samples, and tissue samples not subject to testing under this section, and test or identification data related to those samples, may not be entered into, or made a part of, the DNA identification registration system.

(c) The Department of Public Safety may

(1) analyze DNA for law enforcement agencies; and

(2) assist law enforcement officials and prosecutors in the preparation and use of DNA evidence for presentation in court.

(d) Except as provided in (e) of this section, a local law enforcement agency may not establish or operate a DNA identification registration system unless

(1) the equipment and the DNA typing method of the local system are compatible with that of the state system under (a) of this section;

(2) the local system is equipped to receive and answer inquiries from the department's DNA identification registration system and transmit data to the department's DNA identification registration system; and

(3) procedure and rules for the collection, analysis, storage, expungement, and use of DNA identification data do not conflict with this section and procedures and rules applicable to the department's DNA identification registration system.

(e) Nothing in (d) of this section prohibits a local law enforcement agency from performing DNA identification analysis in individual cases to assist law enforcement officials and prosecutors in the preparation and use of DNA evidence for presentation in court.

(f) The DNA identification registration system is confidential, is not a public record under AS 40.25.110 - 40.25.140, and may be used only for

(1) providing DNA or other blood grouping tests for identification analysis;

(2) criminal investigations, prosecutions, and identification of human remains;

(3) statistical blind analysis;

(4) improving the operation of the system; or

(5) exoneration of the innocent.

(g) A person from whom a sample has been collected under this section may inspect and obtain a copy of the identification data regarding the person contained within the DNA identification registration system.

(h) The Department of Public Safety shall adopt reasonable procedures

(1) for the collection, analysis, storage, expungement, and use of the DNA identification registration system; and

(2) to protect the DNA identification registration system established under this section from unauthorized access and from accidental or deliberate damage by theft, sabotage, fire, flood, wind, or power failure.

(i) The Department of Public Safety shall, upon receipt of a court order, destroy the material in the system relating to a person. The court shall issue the order if it determines that

(1) the conviction or adjudication that subjected the person to having a sample taken under this section is reversed; and

(2) the person

(A) is not retried or readjudicated for the crime; or

(B) after retrial, is acquitted of the crime or after readjudication for the crime is not found to be a delinquent.

(j) The Department of Public Safety may adopt regulations to carry out the purposes of this section.

(k) The provisions of this section apply to a person from another state that this state has accepted under any interstate corrections or probation agreement or compact, regardless of whether the person is confined or released, if the person was convicted of an offense that is similar to an offense described in (b) of this section.

(l) The Department of Public Safety may not include in the DNA registration system a blood sample, oral sample, or tissue sample of the victim of a crime, unless that person would otherwise be included under (b)(1) - (5) of this section.

(m) The commissioner of public safety shall notify the president of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives if, at any time after July 1, 2003, the federal government fails to pay the costs of the DNA identification registration system.

(n) In this section,

(1) 'convicted' means that an adult, or a juvenile charged as an adult under AS 47.12 or a similar procedure in another jurisdiction, has entered a plea of guilty, guilty but mentally ill, or nolo contendere, or has been found guilty, or guilty but mentally ill, by a court or jury, regardless of whether the judgment was set aside under AS 12.55.085 or a similar procedure in another jurisdiction or was the subject of a pardon or other executive clemency; a person is not 'convicted' if the judgment against the person was reversed or vacated by a court;

(2) 'crime against a person' means an offense, or an attempt or solicitation to commit an offense, under AS 11.41;

(3) 'oral sample' means a sample taken from the mouth of a person that consists of saliva or tissue, or both, as is determined by the Department of Public Safety to be necessary to obtain an accurate DNA identification and to otherwise achieve the purposes of this section.