Contact with Trial Jurors

(a) Before or During Trial No party, attorney, or other interested person may contact or communicate with, directly or indirectly, any juror, prospective juror, or member of such juror's or prospective juror's family. (b) After Trial After the jury concludes its deliberations and is discharged, a party, attorney, or other interested person may communicate with a juror who first initiates contact. Unless Local Civil Rules for the District of Alaska Effective October 15, 2025 Page 27 otherwise ordered, no party, lawyer, investigator, or other agent for a party shall attempt to initiate contact with any trial juror, including any alternate juror. Jurors are free to, but are under no obligation to, discuss the trial in which the juror has been a participant.

(c) Notice Subsections (a) and (b) will be posted in the jury rooms of this District and jurors will be instructed fully as to this matter.