Department of Justice Press Releases
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen led a 26-state coalition today asking the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) to intervene and halt Hawaii’s unconstitutional gun ban which prohibits the carry or possession of firearms in designated “sensitive” [...]
HELENA – Attorney General Austin Knudsen issued the following statement in recognition of Missing or Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day: “I have had a front row seat to the devastation inflicted on Montana’s tribal communities by the missing and murdered [...]
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen today led a coalition of 17 states in support of employees’ civil rights in the face of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) training that encourages racial discrimination against races singled out for negativity. [...]
HELENA – Seventy-five new officers who will serve in 40 agencies across the state graduated today from the Montana Law Enforcement Academy (MLEA) within the Montana Department of Justice. MLEA provides basic and advanced training for state, county, city, and [...]
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen led a coalition of 21 states in supporting President Donald J. Trump’s reduction in force (RIF) at the Department of Education, which will ultimately return more authority to state education departments. The amicus [...]
HELENA – Attorney General Austin Knudsen and Montana Highway Patrol (MHP) Colonel Kurt Sager visited the MHP Communications Center today to recognize dispatchers during National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week, which is April 13-19. The dispatchers at MHP’s Communications Center are [...]
HELENA – A former Polson police officer pleaded guilty today to one count of sexual abuse of children and one count of incest in the Twentieth Judicial District Court in Lake County, Attorney General Austin Knudsen announced today. Matthew Timm, [...]
HELENA – Five amicus briefs were filed in support of Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen’s petition asking the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) to reverse a flawed Montana Supreme Court decision that puts the health and safety of [...]
BIG TIMBER – Two Montana Highway Patrol troopers were involved in an officer involved critical incident Thursday afternoon outside of Big Timber. The situation occurred after troopers were alerted that a suspect from Nebraska, with a no-bond warrant for his [...]
HELENA – A Kalispell man was sentenced to 50 years at the Montana State Prison, with 10 of those years suspended, for deliberate homicide after beating a homeless man and leaving him to die in 2023, Attorney General Austin Knudsen [...]