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Bill would allow certain Montana criminal investigators and fire marshals to take work vehicles home
Summary
House Bill 679 would expand eligibility for take-home vehicles to additional classes of employees in the Division of Criminal Investigation to improve response times for emergency callouts.
Representative Morgan Thiel (House District 30) introduced House Bill 679, which would add specific classes of employees to the list of officials permitted to take department vehicles home for work-related response duties, including fire marshals and agents assigned to narcotics and major-case teams.
Lee Johnson, administrator of the Montana Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI), testified in support and described the operational need: "These are violent crimes,…
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