The Haines Borough Assembly’s letter to Alaska State Troopers refusing to violate its own charter by providing borough-wide police protection “adds to the conversation the Department of Public Safety will have at the highest levels,” according to Alaska State Trooper’s former acting director Major Andrew Greenstreet.

At a Jan. 8 assembly meeting, the borough assembly unanimously voted to send a letter written by borough attorney Brooks Chandler to Greenstreet saying that the assembly “respectfully declines…