Family targeting
Broker pages link your name to your relatives and their home addresses. That gives someone a path from you to the people around you.
What this is
Family targeting is when someone shifts from you to the people around you: a spouse, a child, a parent, a sibling. The reason is usually access. When your own information is hard to reach, a relative's often is not.
The mechanism is the broker page. A search on your name returns your home address and a list of relatives. A search on any one of those relatives returns their address. Whoever is looking picks the person to go after.
The 2023 Fulton County doxxing case shows the pattern. When District Attorney Fani Willis's home address was posted online, her family's information and a list of the grand jurors who signed the Trump indictment went up alongside it. The 2026 Schaumburg FBI roster theft showed it at federal scale. Within weeks of a stolen roster exposing agents' home addresses, one agent's child was contacted on social media.
Why first responders face this
Your work can make enemies. Your family didn't sign up for that. For law enforcement and prosecutors, targeting a relative is a documented pattern. Judges, victim advocates, and child protective caseworkers face the same exposure through the same broker links.
Family members are exposed because of you, often without knowing it. Getting their information off broker sites matters as much as getting yours off.
What we do for the household
We scan and file removals for your household the same way we do for you: broker opt-outs for household members and for adult relatives who want coverage. We keep checking and refile when a listing comes back.
Departments that want to cover first responder families can arrange household coverage in the agency agreement instead of enrolling people one at a time.
In New Jersey, Daniel's Law lets covered officers, judges, and prosecutors demand that data brokers take down their home address and unpublished phone number. It also covers spouses, parents, and minor children living at the same address. We file those demands across the household when the law applies. For federal judges, the Lieu Act covers immediate family the same way. For everyone else, the broker opt-out process is the path that's available, and we run it for the whole household and keep checking.
For the household steps that go alongside the legal work (scanning your spouse's information, tightening social media privacy, keeping your kids out of school directory listings, and talking with older relatives about what they post), see the family privacy stack guide.