Department of Justice Press Releases
HELENA –Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen filed the opening brief in William Trevor Case v. State of Montana ahead of oral arguments at the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) in October. The Attorney General’s Office will defend a Montana Supreme [...]
ANACONDA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen received a briefing and updated the public today in Anaconda regarding the Friday shooting and ongoing search for the suspect. On Friday around 10:30 a.m., 45-year-old Michael Brown walked into The Owl Bar [...]
HELENA – Sixty-six new officers who will serve in 35 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 –The Montana Highway Patrol (MHP) commissioned 17 new troopers, the largest class in the last 20 years, at a graduation ceremony in Helena Friday. Attorney General Knudsen and MHP Colonel Kurt Sager addressed the new troopers prior to their [...]
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen joined attorneys general from 25 other states in issuing the following statement supporting President Trump’s decision to send in the National Guard in response to violent riots in California: “We will always defend [...]
HELENA – Attorney General Austin Knudsen announced Jordyn Muggli, of Miles City, as the winner of the fourth annual Law Enforcement Appreciation Poster Contest, during National Police Week. Jordyn is a fifth-grade student at Lincoln Grade School in Miles City. In [...]
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 – 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 – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen today announced an immigration enforcement agreement with President Donald J. Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The agreement will authorize Montana Highway Patrol (MHP) troopers and Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) agents to [...]
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 [...]