Alaska § 11.56.785 - Interference with emergency communications.
Full text of Alaska Alaska Statutes § 11.56.785 — Interference with emergency communications., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 11.56.785. Interference with emergency communications.
(a) A person commits the crime of interference with emergency communications if the person knowingly (1) makes repeated emergency communications to report a previously reported incident with no change in circumstance with the intent to cause an emergency police, fire, or medical service response, after an emergency communications worker instructs the person to stop initiating contact for the previously reported incident;
(2) makes repeated emergency communications knowing that there is not a police, fire, or medical emergency; or
(3) threatens an emergency communications worker during an emergency communication.
(b) In this section, (1) “emergency communication” means a communication made to or from an emergency communications center or between police, fire, or medical service personnel in response to an emergency;
(2) “emergency communications center” means a facility that is designed to receive requests for emergency assistance and staffed to perform one or more of the following tasks: (A) determine the location at which an emergency response is being requested;
(B) interrogate callers to identify, assess, prioritize, and classify requests for emergency assistance and other information;
(C) determine the appropriate emergency response required;
(D) assess the available emergency response resources that are or will be available in the time required;
(E) dispatch appropriate police, fire, or medical personnel;
(F) transfer or exchange requests for emergency assistance and other information with other emergency communications centers and emergency response providers;
(G) analyze and respond to communications received from emergency response providers and coordinate appropriate actions; and
(H) support incident command functions;
(3) “emergency communications worker” means a person handling emergency communications at an emergency communications center.
(c) Interference with emergency communications is a class B misdemeanor.
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What does Alaska Statutes § 11.56.785 cover?
Section 11.56.785 ("Interference with emergency communications.") is part of the Alaska Statutes, the codified statutory law of Alaska. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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