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Montana Rescue Mission responds to sexual-assault accusations against counselor
BILLINGS — Montana Rescue Mission leadership detailed its future plans Thursday in response to sexual assault accusations of one of its employees.
The accusations come on the heels of the firing of former Executive Director Matt Lundgren after an internal HR investigation.
Watch this video to hear from leadership:
Montana Rescue Mission responds to sexual assault accusations
The employee worked as the nonprofit’s addiction counselor and social worker. MTN is choosing not to name them because no criminal charges have been filed.
Billings police confirmed that the department is handling the investigation, which was brought to light through documents provided by Montana Attorney General’s Austin Knudsen’s office on Thursday.
Those documents detail that the employee is accused of assaulting two women, who confided in a Billings therapist, Jonathan Angel, who later reported the assaults.
Joanna King with the Billings Leadership Foundation, which handles administrative work for the Mission, said that the nonprofit is taking the accusations seriously and letting the investigation commence before any permanent action is taken.
“Everyone is entitled due process, for both victims or people being accused,” King said Thursday morning. “We want to make sure that we take complaints and concerns seriously.”
King also said that with the recent turbulent changes, the nonprofit is looking to make changes.
“One of the things in all of the leadership changes is reopen lines of communication with area partners,” King said. “At the end of the day, we want to make sure that we are providing the best care that we can.”
Some of those community partnerships include RiverStone Health and the Community Crisis Center, which were used by the mission in years past. Former Billings City Council Member and current President of the Yellowstone Human Trafficking Task Force Penny Ronning said she hopes that returns to the norm.
“It used to be so community-based,” Ronning said of the Mission Thursday afternoon. “Members of different sectors in the community were active within the workings of the mission.”
Ronning said when Lundgren took over, that feeling of transparency began to change, which is why she was saddened but not shocked by the recent news.
“I’m disappointed and hurt for our community, but mostly for those that the mission serves,” Ronning said. “Sadly, I’m not surprised.”
Ronning said it’s unfortunately common around the state for unethical behavior to exist within at-risk populations.
“These are the places that we are seeing in Montana right now being the most vulnerable to trafficking, to predators and the Mission is not an exception to that,” Ronning said.
Now, Ronning said she hopes the recent challenges will lead to a more positive direction.
“It really is upon that board and current leadership to make that change,” Ronning said.
King said they’re committed to finding the right path, similar to their residents.
“We’re meant to be a stop along the way,” King said. “They’re meant to stop, get the help they need and transfer on. That’s what we’re trying to do too.”
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Everyone makes mistakes, even experienced professionals; a good reminder for the rest of us to learn from those mistakes. The motion in State v. Stroup starts off well in its initial pages (no case law hallucinations), but is then followed by several pages of two other motions, which I don’t think the lawyer was planning to file, and which appear to have been AI-generated: It begins with the “Below is concise motion language you can drop into …” language quoted above.
Griffen Smith (Missoulian) reported on the story, and included the prosecutor’s motion to strike that filing, on the grounds that it violates a local rule (3(G)) requiring disclosure of the use of generative AI:
The document does not include a generative artificial intelligence disclosure as required. However, page 7 begins as follows: “Below is concise motion language you can drop into a ‘Motion to Admit Mental-Disease Evidence and for Related Instructions’ keyed to 45-6-204, 45-6-201, and 4614-102. Adjust headings/captions to your local practice.” Page 10 states “Below is a full motion you can paste into your pleading, then adjust names, dates, and styles to fit local practice.” These pages also include several apparent hyperlinks to “ppl-ai-file-upload.s3.amazonaws,” “ppl-ai-fileupload.s3.amazonaws+1,” and others. The document includes what appears to be an attempt at a second case caption on page 12. It is not plausible on its face that any source other than generative AI would have created such language for a filed version of a brief….
There’s more in that filing, but here’s one passage:
While generative AI can be a useful tool for some purposes and may have greater application in the future, when used improperly, and without meaningful review, it can ultimately damage both the perception and the reality of the profession. One assumes that Mr. Stroup has had, or will at some point have, an opportunity to review the filing made on his behalf. What impression could a review of pgs. 12-19 leave upon a defendant who struggles with paranoia and delusional thinking? While AI could theoretically one day become a replacement for portions of staff of experienced attorneys, it is readily apparent that this day has not yet arrived.
The Missoulan article includes this response:
In a Wednesday interview, Office of Public Defender Division Administrator Brian Smith told the Missoulian the AI-generated language was inadvertently included in an unrelated filing. And he criticized the county attorney’s office for filing a “four-page diatribe about the dangers of AI” instead of working with the defense to correct her mistake.
“That’s not helping the client or the case,” Smith said, “and all you are doing is trying to throw a professional colleague under the bus.”
As I mentioned, the lawyer involved seems quite experienced, and ran for the Montana Public Service Commission in 2020 (getting nearly 48% of the vote) and for the House of Representatives in Montana’s first district in 2022 (getting over 46% of the vote) and in 2024 (getting over 44%). “Его пример другим наука,” Pushkin wrote in Eugene Onegin—”May his example profit others,” in the Falen translation.
Thanks to Matthew Monforton for the pointer.
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