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Amanda Price, the commissioner in charge of Alaska State Troopers and Alaska Wildlife Troopers, said Friday that she resigned at the request of Gov. Mike Dunleavy.
In an email Friday afternoon announcing Price’s resignation as head of the Alaska Department of Public Safety, the governor’s office offered no reason for her stepping down.
But Price told the Daily News she spoke to the governor’s chief of staff, Ben Stevens, on Friday and was given a choice: Resign or be fired without a chance to say goodbye to her staff.
“It was put to me as I will either be removed or I can submit my resignation,” she said. She said it was important to have a chance to say goodbye, which is why she resigned.