Idaho extremist groups ran doxxing campaigns against judges, prosecutors, and health workers in 2022

What happened

In April 2022, the Idaho Capital Sun published a detailed account of organized doxxing campaigns inside the state. The targets were judges, prosecutors, public health officials, and law enforcement. The reporting documented home addresses, family information, and workplace details being circulated by extremist groups online.

The campaigns weren't limited to one platform or one group. The Capital Sun's reporting traced the activity across multiple sites and noted the data was being aggregated, shared, and republished.

How it started

Public health officials drew the first wave of targeting during the pandemic, which then expanded to include any public official the groups disagreed with. Judges presiding over cases involving the groups' members became targets. Prosecutors and officers handling related cases followed.

The starting point for almost any doxxing campaign is a broker page. Once a name is fixed, the rest, address, family, prior addresses, comes from people-search results. The Idaho campaigns followed that pattern.

What this means for you

Idaho's Address Confidentiality Program (Idaho Code §19-57) is one of the few in the country that explicitly covers officers. The application goes to the Idaho Peace Officer Standards and Training Council. That covers your address inside state systems. It does not cover Whitepages, Spokeo, or BeenVerified.

The state has no Daniel's Law analog. There is no property-records redaction process. Removal at the broker layer is the only step that reaches the data the 2022 campaigns actually used. We do that work continuously.

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