Department of Justice Press Releases
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen led a coalition of 22 states in supporting President Donald J. Trump’s “Fork Directive,” which offers buyouts to federal employees who opt to resign from their positions and will free up government resources [...]
HELENA – Attorney General Austin Knudsen announced today an updated Sexual and Violent Offender Registry (SVOR) that will provide Montanans with additional information on the whereabouts of offenders in their area. In addition to an offender’s home address which was [...]
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen led a coalition of 17 attorneys general in demanding answers from the world’s top asset managers to determine if they are misrepresenting and omitting essential disclosures regarding Chinese investments. In a letter sent [...]
Attorney General Knudsen asks Legislature for indoor firing range at Montana Law Enforcement Academy
HELENA – Attorney General Austin Knudsen testified today in the Joint Appropriations Subcommittee on Long-Range Planning in support of a capital investment project that, if approved by the Montana Legislature, will provide funding for an indoor firing range at the [...]
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen joined a coalition of 18 attorneys general in defending President Donald J. Trump’s executive order that protects the value of American citizenship and closes a birthright citizenship loophole that incentivizes illegal immigration. In [...]
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen today led a coalition of 20 attorneys general in defending a religious organization’s broad authority to make employment decisions based on religious beliefs to accomplish the organization’s mission and goals. In the case [...]
HELENA – Attorney General Austin Knudsen is reminding Montanans to stay vigilant and on the lookout for bad actors trying take advantage of them as the Department of Justice’s Office of Consumer Protection (OCP) fielded 900 scam complaints, over 1,000 [...]
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen joined a coalition of 24 state attorneys general in asking the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse a lower court’s decision that would allow a convicted murderer in Indiana to receive a [...]
HELENA – The Montana Highway Patrol (MHP) commissioned four new troopers at a graduation ceremony in Helena Wednesday. MHP Colonel Kurt Sager addressed the new troopers prior to their badge pinning. Montana Supreme Court Chief Justice Cory Swanson administered their [...]
HELENA – Attorney General Austin Knudsen announced today Montana is likely to receive over $16 million dollars from a settlement in principle with Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family, Purdue’s owners, for the role they played in creating the opioid [...]