{"id":41129,"date":"2019-01-09T14:06:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T23:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/aclu-prepares-lawsuits-against-dunleavy-administration\/"},"modified":"2019-01-10T08:52:04","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T17:52:04","slug":"aclu-prepares-lawsuits-against-dunleavy-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/home\/aclu-prepares-lawsuits-against-dunleavy-administration\/","title":{"rendered":"ACLU prepares lawsuits against Dunleavy administration"},"content":{"rendered":"

The American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska is preparing to file a lawsuit against Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s administration, it announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The ACLU<\/a> is alleging that the administration violated the constitutional rights of state employees by firing them. Details of the lawsuits will be released at a 10 a.m. Thursday press conference, according to a press release from the ACLU of Alaska. The press conference will take place at the ACLU office in Anchorage.<\/p>\n

[Walker: Dunleavy resignation requests creating anxiety<\/a>]<\/ins><\/p>\n

Casey Reynolds, a spokesperson for the ACLU of Alaska, declined to comment about the lawsuits Wednesday and said more information would be available at the press conference.<\/p>\n

It’s not publicly known how many employees have been terminated since Dunleavy took office. A records request from the Empire to the governor’s office asking for the number of employees terminated have not yet been returned.<\/p>\n

After his election in November, Dunleavy requested hundreds of state employees submit resignations and indicate if they wanted to work for the upcoming administration. The Associated Press reported<\/a> about 800 employees, including commissioners, scientists, prosecutors and others, received the request.<\/p>\n

This isn’t an uncommon request for an incoming governor, but Dunleavy’s team told the Associated Press at the time that this request had a bit wider scope than normal.<\/p>\n

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\u2022 This is a Juneau Empire report.<\/b><\/p>\n

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More details will come Thursday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":41130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[518,230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-41129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-gov-mike-dunleavy","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41129"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=41129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}