Anchorage Ombudsman Darrel Hess has completed his investigation into a challenge to the April 4 Assembly election.
The city’s Information Technology Director Marc Dahl was found to have created a policy to help overturn the election results and leaked that policy to a campaign activist before it was even made public, Hess confirmed.
Graham’s complaint stated that no thumb drives should be inserted into municipality-owned equipment without authorization from the IT director. Moments before the complaint, Dahl had created a policy to support that challenge. But the ombudsman says Dahl had no authority to create that policy without first getting approval from city department heads.
The problem is the complaint dealt with an internal policy that was only posted to the municipality’s intranet and wasn’t yet publicly available. Hess says because of this, he “reasonably believes that there may have been a violation of state election statutes.” Hess recommended that the city fire Dahl — and for the administration to require annual ethics training for all city employees. He also recommended that the city code be changed to bar municipal department directors from endorsing any candidate or being involved in any campaign activities.
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