Alaska Statutes: AS 47.62.040. Interference With the Long Term Care Ombudsman and Retaliation Prohibited.

Alaska Statutes. Title 47. Welfare, Social Services and Institutions Chapter 62. Office of the Long Term Care Ombudsman Section 40. Interference With the Long Term Care Ombudsman and Retaliation Prohibited.

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AS 47.62.040. Interference With the Long Term Care Ombudsman and Retaliation Prohibited.

(a) A person may not intentionally interfere with the ombudsman, or an employee, volunteer, or representative of the office, in the performance of official duties under AS 47.62.015 .
(b) If a person makes a good faith complaint described in AS 47.62.015, an employer or supervisor of the person, or a public or private agency or entity that provides benefits, services, or housing to the person, may not discharge, demote, transfer, reduce the pay or benefits or work privileges of, prepare a negative work performance evaluation of, deny or withhold benefits or services, evict, or take other detrimental action against the person because of the complaint. The person making the complaint may bring a civil action for compensatory and punitive damages against an employer, supervisor, agency, or entity that violates this subsection. In the civil action there is a rebuttable presumption that the detrimental action was retaliatory if it was taken within 90 days after the complaint was made.
(c) A person who violates this section is guilty of a class B misdemeanor.

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