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No sexual assault nurse examination program exists east of Billings, meaning victims and survivors of sexual abuse often have to drive several hours to get an examination completed.
By Elinor Smith Montana Free Press HELENA— The House Judiciary committee heard testimony Wednesday on a bill that supporters say would address
Lawmakers on Thursday heard three bills that would bolster the state's response to the missing and murdered Indigenous persons crisis, with backing from the new Montana Department of Justice administration. Rep. Sharon Stewart-Peregoy, D-Crow Agency, presented the legislative package to the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday morning. House Bill 98 would extend the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Task Force at the Montana Department of Justice, a House version of the same proposal Sen. Jason Small, R-Busby, pitched to a Senate committee a week earlier, but with an extension of the p...
Montana Republican Attorney General-elect Austin Knudsen on Thursday named several senior-level staff in his upcoming administration. Thursday's announcement follows Knudsen's release earlier this week of the Montana Department of Justice division administrators. Major Steve Lavin of the Kalispell division of the Montana Highway Patrol was announced as the new chief of that division Dec. 16. The list of senior officials in Knudsen's Department of Justice draws from former legislators, staff for past Republican officials and those with experience from other state agencies. Four of the nine sen...