Attorney General Tim Fox, together with state law enforcement partners in every other state, the District of Columbia, and the Federal Trade Commission, have jointly filed a federal lawsuit against four phony cancer charities and their operators, who allegedly scammed more than $187 million from...
Attorney General Fox announced today that his Office of Consumer Protection—along with the Attorneys General of the other 49 States and the District of Columbia, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and the Federal Communications Commission—reached settlements with Sprint Corporation (“Sprint”) and Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon...
With the goal of locating offenders who aren’t in compliance with Montana’ s Sexual or Violent Offender Registry, last week Montana law enforcement agencies conducted an intensive compliance check in Missoula County. During the week-long operation: 238 sex offender address verifications were conducted. 13 sex offenders were...
Yesterday the governor signed Senate Bill 66 (http://laws.leg.mt.gov/legprd/LAW0203W$BSRV.ActionQuery?P_SESS=20151&P_BLTP_BILL_TYP_CD=SB&P_BILL_NO=66&P_BILL_DFT_NO=&P_CHPT_NO=&Z_ACTION=Find&P_ENTY_ID_SEQ2=&P_SBJT_SBJ_CD=&P_ENTY_ID_SEQ=), which prohibits the sale of electronic cigarettes, also known as e-cigarettes, to minors. The bill was sponsored by Sen. Diane Sands of Missoula and introduced at the request of Attorney General Tim Fox. E-cigarettes, the use of which...
HELENA – Today, the governor signed House Bill 89 into law. Sponsored by Rep. Kim Dudik of Missoula and introduced at the request of Attorney General Tim Fox, the bill updates Montana’s human trafficking laws to reflect the model state human trafficking act.
Attorney General Fox Encourages Montanans to Learn More about Risks Faced by Drug Endangered Children Today marks the fifth annual National Drug Endangered Children (DEC) Awareness Day, and Attorney General Tim Fox encourages Montanans to learn more about the risks faced by drug endangered children. “Too many of...
Today at the Montana WILD Center, Attorney General Tim Fox presented Aila Austin, a fifth-grader at Jefferson Elementary School in Helena, with the 2015 award for the Montana Bring Our Missing Children Home poster contest. Aila’s colorful poster depicts the anguish families with missing children experience,...
At a ceremony in Helena this morning, the Montana Law Enforcement Academy graduated 49 new officers from 33 different city, county, and state law enforcement agencies around Montana. “With the oath, badge, and uniform come solemn responsibilities,” Attorney General Tim Fox told the graduates today. “As...
Today, the Montana Department of Justice announced a new service that allows the public to be automatically notified by email whenever a sexual or violent offender moves into a zip code of interest to subscribers. This new service is part of Montana’s Sexual or Violent Offender...
Montana Attorney General Tim Fox has urged all U.S. Senators to vote for cloture and support S187, the “Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act.” The Senate is scheduled to vote on cloture to end debate at noon Eastern Time today. This morning Fox issued the following statement: “Human...