Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
An attorney for Missoula County in Montana is arguing that the Justice Department has no authority to investigate how local authorities handle sexual assault cases, the Associated Press reports.
Attorney Fred Van Valkenburg even went on to say that the county is an unfair target of the DOJ’s.
“For whatever reason we have been kind of picked on by the DOJ, and I honestly think we have a greater responsibility to the country as a whole, to prosecutors in every county in America, to stand up and say, ‘This is wrong, you can’t do this,’” Van Valkenburg told county officials.
The county, Missoula police and the University of Montana campus police came under a federal investigation in May 2012.
Police cooperated and even increased training and changed some policies.
