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Lawyers for the former head of the Montana Highway Patrol are asking a judge to tell Attorney General Austin Knudsen to stop his Department of Justice from illegally disseminating confidential personnel information — which the DOJ denies doing.
The attorneys allege the DOJ provided private information to a political consultant for Knudsen, Jake Eaton — who more widely released it — and that the state interfered with a lawsuit in doing so…