Governor still mum on tribal law enforcement in Lake County
County officials frustrated with Gov. Gianforte’s silence over pending changes to reservation law enforcement
Summer Goddard
Some of the inmates in Lake County’s Jail, located in the basement of the courthouse, are tribal members. Having withdrawn from PL 280, in which the county previously agreed to prosecute federal crimes committed by Native American tribal members, commissioners are at a quandry as to what to do tribal inmates and with felony procesutions already underway.
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