Family targeting
When someone can't reach you, they reach for your spouse, your kids' school, your parents' address.
Run a free scan. No signup.What this is
Family targeting is what happens when an adversary shifts attention from you to the people around you. It looks like: harassment of your spouse on social media. Unfamiliar contacts at your kid's school. Calls to your parents' workplace. Doxxing of family members. Swatting calls placed to a sibling's address. The 2023 Fani Willis case is one of the cleanest recent examples. When her home address went up, the addresses of her relatives and the 23 grand jurors went up alongside it. The family wasn't collateral. The family was the lever.
The mechanism is always the same: the broker pages link you to your relatives. A search on your name returns your address plus a list of relatives. A search on any one of those relatives returns their address. The adversary chooses which person to target.
Why first responders catch this more
The job creates the threat. The family carries the consequence. For LE, judges, prosecutors, victim advocates, and CPS caseworkers, family targeting is a known pattern. Most adversaries who escalate this far never act on the family threat. The handful who do produce real cases.
The hardest part is that family members didn't take the job. They're exposed because of you, often without knowing it. A clean broker presence for them matters as much as for you.
What we sweep that prevents the chain
We sweep the family the same way we sweep you. Standard opt-outs across 200+ broker sites for every household member and adult relatives where they request coverage. Re-checked every two weeks.
For NJ officers, Daniel's Law (a state statute that lets covered officers, judges, and prosecutors force brokers to remove their home address) explicitly covers spouses, parents, and minor children living in the same residence. We file demands across the household. For federal judges, the Lieu Act covers immediate family the same way. For everyone else, the broker opt-out path is the leverage and we run it continuously across the household.
For the practical household-level work that runs alongside the legal layer (running the scan on your spouse, locking down social, FERPA opt-outs at the kids' school, the conversation to have with grandma), see the family privacy stack guide.