Department of Justice Press Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen joined Vice President JD Vance, the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, and a coalition of 15-state attorneys general today for an anti-fraud roundtable to discuss coordinated efforts to combat wasteful [...]
HELENA – Attorney General Austin Knudsen and the Montana Highway Patrol (MHP) are encouraging drivers to stay safe on the road as Memorial Day weekend marks the unofficial start of summer and the beginning of the “100 Deadliest Days of [...]
HELENA – In his summary response filed today, Attorney General Austin Knudsen asked the Montana Supreme Court to dismiss Gallatin County Attorney Audrey Cromwell’s petition requesting the AG's supervisory control be terminated. Attorney General Knudsen invoked supervisory control on April [...]
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen led a coalition of 10-state attorneys general in asking the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to strictly review any filings submitted by OpenAI to protect investors and ensure fair and orderly markets [...]
HELENA - Attorney General Austin Knudsen and Stockman Bank announced Brooke Murphy, of Missoula, as the winner of the fifth annual Law Enforcement Appreciation Poster Contest, during National Police Week. Brooke is a fifth-grade student at Hellgate Intermediate in Missoula.In [...]
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen today issued the following statement regarding the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) final decision to cancel the American Prairie Reserve’s (APR) bison grazing leases.“The decision by the Trump Administration to cancel the American [...]
HELENA – Attorney General Austin Knudsen today relaunched Montana’s existing human trafficking hotline and announced the state will be utilizing a new application and website that will allow Montanans to report suspected human trafficking online. The new reporting platform – Simply [...]
HELENA – Attorney General Austin Knudsen issued the following statement in observance of Missing or Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day:“Montana's tribal communities are suffering from immense tragedy brought on by the missing and murdered Indigenous persons crisis. I saw it firsthand [...]
HELENA – Attorney General Austin Knudsen invoked supervisory control over Gallatin County Attorney Audrey Cromwell, following her failure to follow the law and issue a memorandum clarifying that Gallatin County may share confidential criminal justice information (CCJI) with U.S. Immigration [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen joined the U.S. Department of Justice and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) at a press conference in Washington, D.C. today to support the Trump Administration's efforts to strengthen [...]