State statute requires the automatic preservation of all evidence for crimes related to murder, manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, first degree sexual assault, and first degree sexual abuse of a minor. The evidence must be maintained indefinitely for murder, manslaughter, and criminally negligent homicide convictions. In the case of first degree sexual assault and first degree sexual abuse of a minor, the period of preservation lasts for the length of the incarceration, or while the individual is registered as a sex offender. Effective: 2010
Alaska’s statute does NOT meet the best practices standards outlined by the NIST Technical Working Group on Biological Evidence Preservation.