A filing cabinet in a valley, with a record unspooling toward the river.
Custody LedgerExhibits 02–10Illustration · not a record

  1. Ex. 02Copy

    Follow the routing, not the rumor. A routing note is not a verified transaction.

  2. Ex. 03Copy

    A mention in correspondence is not a resolved record.

  3. Ex. 04Copy

    Place names repeat. Fact patterns stay in separate files.

  4. Ex. 05Copy

    One question can have more than one custodian.

  5. Ex. 06Copy

    Match the claim to the source. A mention is not a verdict.

  6. Ex. 07Copy

    Redact only what the law requires, and say what was withheld.

  7. Ex. 08Copy

    Release what the law allows. Say what it withholds.

  8. Ex. 09Copy

    A sourced page corrects a rumor. Distinctions stay on the page.

  9. Ex. 10Copy

    Who holds it, what can be released, and what is withheld.

Wire · @altmilknews · not a filing

Asks the U.S. Attorney and the Attorney General to release what they have. · Asks where a government response is, and tags the U.S. Marshals, the U.S. Attorney, and Missoula. · Posts a sourced note on EFTA01526966: a July 2007 JPMorgan Fedwire debit, described as via WEST SEC MISSOULA to Ideal Manufacturing, memo about a batch plant. · Asks the U.S. Attorney and the Attorney General to release what they have. · Asks where a government response is, and tags the U.S. Marshals, the U.S. Attorney, and Missoula. · Posts a sourced note on EFTA01526966: a July 2007 JPMorgan Fedwire debit, described as via WEST SEC MISSOULA to Ideal Manufacturing, memo about a batch plant.

Desk up. Public posts compiled. Compiled 2026-10-14. The private fleet is not on this network. No packet sent.

Open the tape · three posts, none of them a filing

  • Asks the U.S. Attorney and the Attorney General to release what they have.

    A demand on X. Not a record produced, and not a finding that either office is withholding a named file.

    Open the post

  • Asks where a government response is, and tags the U.S. Marshals, the U.S. Attorney, and Missoula.

    A question. Tagging an office is not proof the office has a file, and not proof it has answered.

    Open the post

  • Posts a sourced note on EFTA01526966: a July 2007 JPMorgan Fedwire debit, described as via WEST SEC MISSOULA to Ideal Manufacturing, memo about a batch plant.

    The post itself says this is not a Montana account, not delivery in Montana, and not knowledge of a crime. The desk has not re-opened the DOJ page image.

    Open the post

Arming rings this page at once, then again when a later check carries a different newest post. A post is still not a filing.

File copyPublicNot a roster

Press copy · compiled October 14, 2026

Follow the records.Not the rumors.

One public board. Deaths in custody, inquests, and the filings agencies already published. The federal calendar, the city and county agendas, and the plate-reader contracts sit in the same room. Nothing here is a live jail roster.

Fig. AIllustration · not a filing

A river valley, a freight train, and a stack of records.
A picture of a valley and a stack of paper. It is not a docket, a consist, or a finding.
  1. 01DocketPublished names, open files, and the two death counts kept apart.
  2. 02CountsMedical examiner totals, the fatal-encounter study, and the Post’s shootings. Not added.
  3. 03BedsJail and prison population figures. A bed count is not a death count.
  4. 04CalendarDistrict of Montana settings. A date is not a ruling. No dial-in numbers.
  5. 05MeetingsCity agendas and the county’s public meetings API, titles only.
  6. 12DesksCERS, election results, departures, the Nance record, and the Galbreath inquest. A step-down is not a lawsuit.
  7. 06PatrolsThe 90-day plate-reader limit beside the Rogers and Black Knight contracts.
  8. 074th DistrictTwo published Missoula causes. Not a FullCourt login.
  9. 08ComplaintsThe 2023–2024 report’s pending rows, and the 2026 denials. Pending is not a finding.
  10. 09The lawWhat a coroner’s inquest can say, and the two situations where one is required.
  11. 10SourcesEvery feed named, including what it does not prove.
  12. 11Next doorMTBNSF is linked. Its readings are not a custody count.

  • 01

    Already public

    A name is here only if a court, a coroner, a department, or a newsroom has published it. No rosters. No detainee search.

  • 02

    Inquest ≠ lawsuit

    A coroner’s jury asks whether a death was by criminal means. It does not award damages, and a “no crime” finding does not close a civil file.

  • 03

    No flight line

    JPATS publishes how many people it moves, not when the plane leaves. This desk will not track tails, call signs, or live positions.

Open on the desk

Full docket

Yellowstone · inquest not yet held

Michael Carr, Billings

October 5, 2026. Police briefing says he pointed a handgun. The inquest required by statute has not been reported as held.

Blaine · DCI still investigating

Harlem, two deaths

September 24–25, 2026. Jordan Alexander Werk was killed in an exchange of gunfire. DCI says a woman was found dead inside. She is not named.

Missoula · jury in, civil case open

Ross Robertson

Died in police custody May 29, 2024. A June 2026 inquest found no criminal activity. His mother’s suit against the city is still a case.

ICE / CBP · not an official census

Montana immigration arrests

A law firm estimates more than 250 arrests in 2026 and points to a federal order releasing 24 people from the Cascade County jail. That estimate is labeled as an estimate.

Rights, speech, and one criminal file

Rights casesFederal docketFederal calendar

Redfern · indictment reported, number not copied

Samuel Pascal Redfern

October 13, 2026. The Missoulian headlines a redacted indictment. The reporter says a federal jury indicted a Missoula commentator for illegal firearm possession. “Political prisoner” is what friends and family said. It is not a charge.

State constitution · not PACER

Held v. Montana

December 18, 2024. The Montana Supreme Court held, 6–1, that a clean and healthful environment includes a stable climate. DA 23-0575. No federal case number.

§ 1983 · injunction as to the plaintiffs

Deepfake mailer suit

Accountability in State Government v. Knudsen, 6:26-cv-00038. Judge Watters blocked enforcement of SB 25 against the named plaintiffs on September 16, 2026. The statute is not struck down in this file.

First Amendment · injunction stands

Drag-performance suit

Imperial Sovereign Court v. Knudsen, 2:23-cv-00050. The Ninth Circuit affirmed the block on House Bill 359 on March 13, 2026.

First Amendment · dismissed

Age-verification suit

Free Speech Coalition v. Knudsen, 9:24-cv-00067. The suit challenged SB 544. Judge Molloy dismissed it on August 6, 2025. Bloomberg reported the ground as standing.

Constitutional suit · dismissed

Lighthiser v. Trump

Youth plaintiffs, including plaintiffs from the state Held case, sued over climate executive orders. Judge Christensen dismissed. They said they would appeal.

Plate readers and private patrols

Section 46-5-118 is a 90-day limit on police plate-reader data, not a paper every county files with the county attorney. Valley County has already published a policy. Missoula’s public fight is a city contract: Rogers International, then Black Knight, patrolling shelters and parks, including a deal the council passed without body cameras.

Read the statute beside the contracts

Council packets, and the request not sent

The city’s public meeting list is on the desk, with item titles from the agendas that are already posted. County commissioner public and administrative meetings are read from the county’s own public portal. The next records request — plate-reader policy, Flock contract, Black Knight contract — is drafted and not mailed.

Open meetings

Two numbers that get misquoted

The state medical examiner counted 23 law-enforcement-involved or custody deaths in 2025, and 44 in 2024. The same kind of count, printed since 2020, is 31, 32, 35, and 37 in the four years before that. Those totals mix jail deaths with deaths that happened while officers were present. They are not people shot by police. A second public study counted 79 fatal encounters from 2019 through 2023 and does not match the medical examiner. The two lists are not added together. CDC’s 10 leading causes of death do not include this category.

Read the series, with the gaps

Complaints and disqualification orders

The 2023–2024 Judicial Standards report marks several grievances pending, including three Missoula numbers. Pending is not a finding. In 2026 the Montana Supreme Court denied disqualification motions in State v. Bolich, DC-25-473, and State v. Stroup, DC-24-575. Same counsel. Neither motion removed the judge.

Open the register

Fourth District movements, not a FullCourt login

Two Missoula causes are on this desk: Jacques v. City of Missoula, DV-32-2026-0000037-WF, and Redfern v. Leichty, DV-32-2026-0000664. FullCourt Enterprise is the court’s system. The public portal is an index. It did not answer today, so the last lines here are the ones already published.

Open the Fourth District page