Reply from the Office of the Governor of Montana

Dear Dustin,

Thank you for contacting our office about your concern. We appreciate hearing from you.

The Governor's Office can't provide legal assistance. You can visit the Montana Law Help website, which is maintained by the Montana Legal Services Association, as it might have some useful information. You can visit that website here: https://www.montanalawhelp.org/

Information for resources for people with disabilities can be found on the Department of Public Health and Human Services website here: https://dphhs.mt.gov/bhdd/DisabilityServices/developmentaldisabilities/DisabilityResources

Public information requests can be submitted to the Office of Public Information Requests (OPIR) within the Department of Administration. For more information, you can visit the OPIR website here: https://opir.mt.gov/records-request

Thank you,

Nicolas
Constituent Services

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Click here to view case CS0650526: LINK

Our first reply

Dear Nicolas and the Office of Governor Greg Gianforte,

Thank you for your response regarding Case CS0650526. While I appreciate the acknowledgment of my message, I must express deep concern and disappointment at the lack of engagement with the severity of the issue at hand.

The matter I have presented is not simply a legal dispute—it is a case involving multiple potential criminal violations, destruction of evidence by a licensed attorney (who has since been convicted of murder), denial of compensation following a workplace injury under an uninsured employer, and systemic failure across multiple state departments including Labor and Industry, the Uninsured Employers Fund, and the Workers' Compensation Court.

I have made these allegations with supporting documentation, some of which have already been submitted or are available upon request. Deferring me to a legal help website or general disability resources does not address the accountability failures committed by public institutions in this case.

I would ask that the Governor’s Office review the materials again and provide a direct referral to the appropriate oversight body or internal office equipped to address misconduct within state departments and legal malpractice committed under the protection of state licensure. This matter affects not only myself, but potentially sets precedent for how the state handles whistleblower complaints and injured workers whose rights have been obstructed for decades.

I am maintaining all correspondence as part of the public record and will continue to document this process transparently as part of the Glen Eaton Justice Project. I look forward to a response which takes the contents of this case more seriously.

A Brief Follow-up

Dear Nicolas and the Office of Governor Greg Gianforte,

I had provided an erroneous URL in my last reply to you. The Glen Eaton Justice Project is hosted at https://gleneaton.neocities.org

A formal press release is being prepared and will be published in the coming days.

Thank you.

Correction regarding Gary Seaman Handling of Glen Eaton Medical Records

Sent on April 30, 2025

Governor Gianforte

I am writing to submit a formal correction regarding a previous communication I sent to your office as part of the Glen Eaton Justice Project.

In our original message, I mistakenly stated that Glen Eaton's former legal representative, Gary Seaman, "destroyed" his medial evidence related to a 1993 workplace injury. Upon reevaluation of Glen's statements and the timeline of events, this characterization was based on a misinterpreted comment. The verified and accurate description is that Gary Seaman withheld the evidence, and did not forward it to the appropriate state agency.

This correction is made in good faith and is being implemented across all public-facing materials related to the project.

I thank you for your prior attention and for keeping this matter of Montana labor justice under review.

Respectfully,
Dustin M. Shappee
Advocate for Glen Eaton
https://gleneaton.neocities.org