Montana’s Open Meetings Law assures its people the ability to find, acquire, and use records kept by government bodies, including arrest records, court records, marriage and divorce certificates, and records of traffic transgressions, and this privilege extends to the locals of Scobey. This legislation, itself based on the Freedom of Information Act at the country wide level, supplies Scobey locals with particulars relating to instances of governmental intervention, including the addresses and names of those involved, the events leading up an incidence, effects and sentences passed down, and much more. Both government bodies and criminals may be held responsible because of their behaviour as a result of these laws, that provide the populace with the resources they will need to investigate problems outside of their authorities.