Colorado Chief Justice Monica Márquez discloses years of spoofing, swatting, and doxxing in 2025 SU4J Forum

What happened

At the 2025 National Speak Up for Justice (SU4J) Forum, Colorado Chief Justice Monica Márquez publicly disclosed that she had endured spoofing, swatting, doxxing, and what she described as relentless intimidation through her tenure on the Colorado Supreme Court. SU4J was founded by federal and state judges and their families after the 2020 attack on the family of US District Judge Esther Salas.

Márquez's account is one of the most explicit public statements by a sitting state chief justice on the modern threat environment for the bench. Her disclosure aligned with the broader pattern CBS News documented in February 2026, which counted 126 federal threat prosecutions for threats to public officials in 2025 alone.

How it started

Spoofing, swatting, and doxxing all run on the same upstream data layer. Different attacks. Same source.

• Spoofing requires a working phone number associated with the target.
• Swatting requires a home address tied to the target.
• Doxxing aggregates both, alongside family members, employer history, and adjacent public records.

For a sitting judge, all three are reachable through the same channels: people-search broker pages, property records that have already been aggregated and resold by commercial brokers, and adjacent records that link relatives by household. Márquez's exposure followed the standard pattern. The unusual thing is that she said so publicly.

Why this case matters

State chief justices rarely disclose this kind of detail on the record. When they do, it's the most direct public confirmation that the threat shape documented across federal judges, prosecutors, and federal LE also runs on the most senior judicial officers in a state.

Colorado does not have a Daniel's Law analog covering state judges. The state has no equivalent of Illinois's Judicial Privacy Act. The defensive layer Márquez and her colleagues rely on is whatever broker removal each judge pays for or runs personally. The federal Lieu Act covers federal judges, not state.

What this means for you

If you're a state judge, magistrate, or any sworn officer in Colorado: there is no state statute that requires data brokers to remove your home address on demand. The legal landscape is changing — bills modeled on Daniel's Law have been introduced in multiple states post-Hortman — but until passage, the protection is whatever you put in place yourself.

Continuous broker removal across every commercial site that resells residences is what makes the spoofing, swatting, and doxxing playbook harder to run on you. We file opt-outs across 200+ broker sites and re-run them every two weeks.

For more on the threat shape Márquez described and what to do if you're getting the same pattern, see /doxxing, /swatting, and /threats/stalking.

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