Regulating the Homeless Then and the Unhoused Now: Territorial Law and Modern Law for Those Who Live on the Streets Outside the Law

Regulating the Homeless Then and the Unhoused Now: Territorial Law and Modern Law for Those Who Live on the Streets Outside the Law 
Co-sponsored with AK Bar Historians Committee

Recorded Friday, November 1, 2024
1.0 General CLE Credits
VOD_2024023 

Due to technical issues on-site, the first 10–15 minutes of this program were not recorded.

Homelessness seems like a totally modern phenomenon but is not. In the past, many of the poor and unhoused were locked up, including in Alaska, where vagrancy, public intoxication, and indecency statutes were applied to “deviant behavior.” Drawing on personal experiences growing up in Fairbanks and historical research, Michael Carey will explain the history and effects of these approaches, as well as modern ones, in Alaska.

Faculty:
Michael Carey is a graduate of Ithaca College and attended graduate school in history at Duke University. He arrived at the Anchorage Daily News in 1984 and edited editorials, letters to the editor and op-ed pieces. He estimates he edited 50,000 letters over the years, a task that would challenge the patience of Job. In retirement, he has taken an interest in the law – especially the regulation of morals. He lives in Anchorage with his wife, Maggie.
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