Montana public records are governed by the Montana Public Records Act. Access court filings, arrest records, and jail rosters from counties across Big Sky Country.
Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens testified in a 2017 hearing about the department's use of jailhouse informants in the Scott Dekraai mass shooting case. Assistant Public Defender Scott Sanders alleged a decades-long operation violating defendants' rights by using snitches to elicit confessions, including concealed TRED records.