The Montana Department of Justice is seeking applications for membership to the Tow Truck Complaint Resolution Committee from a representative of the commercial motor carrier industry and a representative of the Montana Highway Patrol. The Tow Truck Complaint Resolution Committee is made up of six representatives:...
The Montana Department of Justice (DOJ) is notifying the public a statewide test of the Montana AMBER Alert System has been scheduled for National AMBER Alert Day - January 13, 2017 at approximately 10:00 am. This will be an end-to-end live system test and should...
A Special Master appointed by the Supreme Court of the United States ruled Tuesday in State of Montana v. State of Wyoming that the state of Montana is entitled to specific declaration of its water compact rights, to recovery of damages in the form of...
Many nonprofit organizations rely on end-of-year donations to round out their budgets. Attorney General Tim Fox and his Office of Consumer Protection (OCP) want to make sure Montanans who donate to their favorite charities at this time of year do so in the safest way...
With the goal of locating offenders who aren’t in compliance with Montana’s Sexual or Violent Offender Registry, Montana law enforcement agencies recently conducted intensive compliance checks in Beaverhead, Lake, Flathead, and Roosevelt Counties. There are a combined 350 registered sex offenders in the four jurisdictions. ...
At a ceremony this morning, the Montana Law Enforcement Academy (MLEA) graduated 57 new officers who will serve various agencies across the state. The Montana Law Enforcement Academy is operated by the Montana Department of Justice, providing basic and advanced training for state, county, city...
Attorney General Tim Fox and his Montana Office of Consumer Protection (OCP) want to remind Montanans to stay safe online by keeping an eye out for common social media and web-based scams and deceptive offers as Christmas approaches. “While the holiday season brings to mind acts...
Montana Attorney General Tim Fox, along with 16 other state attorneys general and one state fish and wildlife agency, filed a lawsuit in federal court in Alabama Tuesday, challenging two newly issued regulations promulgated under the authority of the Endangered Species Act by the U.S....
As the Thanksgiving holiday approaches, the state’s chief law enforcement officer, Attorney General Tim Fox, asks Montana to remember the law enforcement and public safety officers who put their lives on the line for their communities, and will not be joining their families for the...
Montana Attorney General Tim Fox joined Wyoming Attorney General Peter Michael in filing a lawsuit in federal court Friday, challenging a newly finalized rule by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management that creates duplicative regulation of methane gas venting and flaring on federal land. The rule,...