Anchorage Assembly votes to activate subpoena powers for inquiry into former Health Department director

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Joe Gerace fabricated credentials and work history on his resume to the city, and resigned in August just before the publication of an investigation revealed he’d falsified it.

Anchorage Health Department director Joe Gerace conducts a press conference in an emergency operations center at the department's downtown Anchorage office building on Friday, Dec. 3, 2021.

“This is a difficult document to move, but it is a necessary document to move,” Assembly Vice Chair Chris Constant said when introducing the measure, adding that it is an “unprecedented action” for the Assembly to take.giving Chair Suzanne LaFrance the power to issue subpoenas for: • Any witness who conducted or participated in Gerace’s appointment, hiring, vetting, term of service, or termination.“The reason we requested a subpoena is because there is the constitutional right to privacy for your personnel records under the Alaska constitution,” Acting Municipal Attorney Blair Christensen said at the meeting.

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