Attorney general candidate condemns Knudsen's inaction in Flathead criminal jurisdiction • Daily Montanan

Democratic candidate for Montana Attorney General Ben Alke slammed his opponent and the state’s top lawyer, Republican Attorney General Austin Knudsen, for what he perceived as inaction over felony jurisdiction on the Flathead Indian Reservation. In a letter sent Wednesday, Alke asked Knudsen to step up in the ongoing dispute between Lake County and Gov. Greg Gianforte’s office over who is financially responsible for executing a decades-old agreement wherein the state took responsibility for criminal jurisdiction on the reservation. With Alke’s letter, the long-simmering political clash has made its way...