Doxxing of judges

What this is

Doxxing of judges has a different rhythm than doxxing of cops. The trigger is usually a ruling, not an incident. A controversial decision drops, the judge's name is in the opinion, and within hours their home address — sometimes their spouse's workplace, sometimes their kid's school — shows up on a forum or social media.

The 2020 attack on Judge Esther Salas's family — which killed her son Daniel and led to NJ's Daniel's Law (the state statute that gives covered judges and officers the right to sue brokers for failing to remove their home address) — followed exactly this pattern. The attacker found her home address through a private investigator who pulled it from public sources.

Why first responders catch this more

The bench is a target by design. Every controversial ruling generates a small population of people who feel personally wronged. Most of them never act. The handful who do find your house through the same broker pages anyone else can search.

For federal judges, the threat is concentrated. There are only about 870 active Article III judges in the country. The pool of people angry at any one of them at any time is large enough that a tiny percentage acting still produces real incidents.

What we sweep that prevents the chain

Federal judges have the Lieu Act — the federal Daniel Anderl Judicial Security and Privacy Act, signed in 2022. Enroll through the Administrative Office of the US Courts and the AOUSC files batched removal demands across major brokers on your behalf.

We operate alongside the federal pipeline. We sweep 200+ broker sites including the smaller ones the AOUSC doesn't always reach, and we re-check every two weeks because re-listings happen. State court judges in IL also have the Judicial Privacy Act — we file those demands. Other state judges fall back on the broker opt-out path, which we run continuously.