Another FWP shakeup

[Elky Welky]

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks enforcement chief moved, assistant placed on leave​

https://billingsgazette.com/outdoors/article_35fa12be-d36e-4a5b-b36f-8505fa66a9f1.html

No rationale given in the article. Ron Howell, chief of the enforcement division, has been given the new job of "transition liaison" and his assistant chief J.D. Douglas has been placed on leave.

 

[Dan O]

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks enforcement chief moved, assistant placed on leave​

https://billingsgazette.com/outdoors/article_35fa12be-d36e-4a5b-b36f-8505fa66a9f1.html

No rationale given in the article. Ron Howell, chief of the enforcement division, has been given the new job of "transition liaison" and his assistant chief J.D. Douglas has been placed on leave.

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I agree reporters need to get paid, but it would be nice if there was an actual story/article reported instead of essentially just a headline.
I understand that they can only report on the facts, and maybe that's all anyone outside FWP knows right now. But a reporter could do a little more research into MT FWP to come up with something more to contribute to the story.

I did a Google search for "MT FWP Ron Howell" and quickly found this short article which features Howell and reports on some findings of an FWP HR audit. Having seen this one story, now I can speculate on if Howell's demotion/"removal" from Chief Enforcement Officer is at all related to these HR issues. I was intrigued by what I read about an arrangement between FWP and local law enforcement agencies throughout the state:

FWP chief takes responsibility for toxic culture while lawmakers ask for a follow-up audit • Daily Montanan

The Legislative Audit Committee ordered an additional audit of the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks human resources, while new leadership too responsibility for the toxic culture outlined in a recent audit.

dailymontanan.com

By the way, Duckduckgo.com is a great search engine to find information that Google won't show you.

Plus, I believe that any news about our publicly-funded agencies and employees is our right to know so we shouldn't be charged for it. That's why the 1st Amendment protects our right to film public servants while in the course of performing their duties and within public buildings in any area that is not restricted, as well as filming in public in general; we already paid for it all!

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