Cromwell v. Knudsen
The Montana Supreme Court will consider whether under the state’s right to privacy and implementing statutes counties are authorized to disseminate confidential criminal justice information to ICE absent a court order. A county attorney filed an original petition with the court after the state attorney general took supervisory control of her office, alleging the office’s policy on sharing information with ICE violated state law.
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