Department of Justice Press Releases
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen and 25 other state attorneys general are calling on Alyo – the parent company of the website PornHub – to follow child protection laws and explain what the company is doing following a recent [...]
HELENA – Attorney General Austin Knudsen joined Len Khodorkovsky, former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and current senior advisor at the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy, to discuss Montana's TikTok ban and the threats and dangers within the ByteDance-owned [...]
HELENA – A group of 18 state attorneys general and two separate organizations recently filed amicus briefs in support of Montana’s law banning TikTok from operating in the state. The law was written and championed by Montana Attorney General Austin [...]
HELENA – A recently arrested Polson Police officer was officially charged by the Attorney General’s Office for sexual abuse of children on Friday, Attorney General Austin Knudsen announced today. Matthew Timm, 42, is alleged to have knowingly photographed and filmed [...]
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen, in a petition filed yesterday, led a coalition of 20 attorneys general in asking the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) to reverse a lower court’s decision that prohibits states and local [...]
BILLINGS – Montana Department of Justice’s Division of Criminal Investigation released the following information regarding an officer involved shooting that occurred Thursday afternoon in Billings: Three DCI narcotics agents were assisting the U.S. Probation and Parole officers in making contact [...]
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen demanded the Biden administration’s U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) provide full transparency and obey the law following the administration’s recent proposal to declare nearly six million acres within Montana – an area [...]
HELENA – A Kalispell man received three-year sentence and ordered to pay restitution on Monday following his guilty plea for committing Medicaid fraud, Attorney General Knudsen announced today. The Montana Department of Justice’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU) received a [...]
HELENA – The Montana Department of Justice Division of Criminal Investigation’s drug intelligence officer received a national award for his efforts to work with public health and public safety agencies across the state to save lives and improve overdose responses [...]
HELENA –Attorney General Austin Knudsen and the Montana Department of Justice will host a ceremony commemorating the 22nd anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The fallen heroes who gave their lives to uphold public safety and answered the [...]