AG Fox applauds replacement of flawed 2015 rule blocked by courts This morning the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Army Corps of Engineers proposed a new Waters of the U.S. rule that brings certainty and consistency to how waters are defined in the federal Clean...
The Montana Highway Patrol (MHP) will receive a large federal grant to combat meth trafficking. Today the U.S. Department of Justice announced that its Office of Community Oriented Policing awarded the MHP a $946,981 grant for anti-meth activities. Montana was one of only nine states...
Attorney General Tim Fox and a bipartisan coalition of 34 attorneys general are asking the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to allow telephone service providers to block more illegal spoofed calls or robocalls being made to unsuspecting consumers in Montana and across the country. The formal comment...
Attorney General Tim Fox has appointed Carole Depoe Lankford to the state's Gaming Advisory Council. Carole's appointment was effective September 27 and her term expires on September 27, 2021. "Carole will bring an important perspective to the Gaming Advisory Council and I am delighted to have...
Confidential hotline and email established for survivor reporting At the request of the Custer County Attorney's Office, Attorney General Tim Fox has directed the Montana Department of Justice to provide investigative assistance with allegations recently made against James Jensen. Jensen, a former Custer County District High...
Attorney General Tim Fox and 55 other state and territory attorneys general are urging Congress to reauthorize the Violence against Women Act (VAWA). Today, the attorneys general sent a letter to congressional leaders and chairs of the Senate and House Judiciary Committees, urging lawmakers to vote...
Montana achieved an important victory last Thursday when a federal judge in Ohio remanded the lawsuit against Purdue Pharma from federal court and returned it to state court, where the Attorney General’s Office filed it originally. In December of 2017, Attorney General Tim Fox filed a...