Montana and ten other states filed amicus brief asking the court to strike down Arizona ordinance Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a Ninth Circuit ruling and struck down a discriminatory Arizona town sign ordinance. Montana Attorney General Tim Fox applauded the ruling in Reed v. Town of...
Pleads guilty to stealing workers’ compensation benefits for six years Last week, Utah resident Benjie Leroy Christensen plead guilty in Lewis & Clark County District Court to felony theft for receiving Montana workers’ compensation permanent disability payments for six years while he was actually performing construction...
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...