{"id":90802,"date":"2024-10-10T05:01:10","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T11:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2024\/10\/10\/former-chief-of-highway-patrol-sues-attorney-general-knudsen-20241009-0357-000042\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2024-10-10T05:04:36","modified_gmt":"2027-03-29T05:04:36","slug":"former-chief-of-highway-patrol-sues-attorney-general-knudsen-20241009-0357-000042","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2024\/10\/10\/former-chief-of-highway-patrol-sues-attorney-general-knudsen-20241009-0357-000042\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Former Chief Of Highway Patrol  Sues Attorney General Knudsen"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Montana Highway  Patrol Col. Steve Lavin filed a lawsuit Friday, Sept. 27, alleging Attorney General Austin Knudsen unlawfully forced him to resign and misrepresented  the terms of his employment. The attorney general announced Lavin\u2019s retirement in March. Since early 2021, Lavin had served as head of the Montana Highway  Patrol, a division of the Department of Justice under Knudsen.<br \/>\n\t  However,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"news-destination":[14],"news-source":[11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90802"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90857,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90802\/revisions\/90857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90802"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=90802"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=90802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}