{"id":5111,"date":"2016-06-16T08:02:38","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T15:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/alaska-courts-to-close-friday-afternoons-in-cost-saving-move\/"},"modified":"2016-06-16T08:02:38","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T15:02:38","slug":"alaska-courts-to-close-friday-afternoons-in-cost-saving-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/alaska-courts-to-close-friday-afternoons-in-cost-saving-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska courts to close Friday afternoons in cost-saving move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE \u2014 Alaska officials said all state courts will be closed every Friday at noon beginning July 1 to cut operating costs during the state\u2019s fiscal crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Court system spokeswoman Mara Rabinowitz says the new schedule is indefinite.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say the closures will save the state about $2 million a year. Officials also expect the closures to yield a 4 percent cut in employee salaries. Workers will be on unpaid furlough during the closures.<\/p>\n<p>Some designated courts will be open for time-reliant proceedings as well as some emergency proceedings such as petitions for domestic violence protective orders.<\/p>\n<p>In-custody arraignments will still be held at the Anchorage jail on Friday afternoons.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said other cost-saving actions that have been implemented include reducing the court system\u2019s workforce by 9 percent through attrition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE \u2014 Alaska officials said all state courts will be closed every Friday at noon beginning July 1 to cut operating costs during the state\u2019s fiscal crisis. Court system spokeswoman Mara Rabinowitz says the new schedule is indefinite. Officials say the closures will save the state about $2 million a year. Officials also expect the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-5111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5111","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\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5111"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=5111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}