Stalking of judges
For state and federal bench — controversial rulings, defendants, parties to civil suits. Federal judges have the Lieu Act.
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Stalking of judges has a different rhythm than stalking of cops. The trigger is usually a ruling, not an incident. A controversial decision drops, the judge's name is on the opinion, and within hours someone is searching the broker pages for the home address.
Most stalkers of judges never escalate past contact. The handful who do find your house through the same broker pages anyone else can search. The 2020 attack on Judge Esther Salas's family followed exactly this pattern — the attacker pulled the address through a private investigator who used commercial sources.
What's at stake
Surveillance of your home. Unfamiliar contacts to your family. Appearances at the courthouse parking garage or your residence. In the rare worst cases, physical attack on you or family members.
The federal bench is concentrated. About 870 active Article III judges in the country. The number of people angry at any one of them at any given time is large enough that the few who follow through still produce real cases.
What to do right now
For federal judges: enroll in the Lieu Act program through the Administrative Office of the US Courts. Work the criminal-defendant playbook — it covers the time-bucketed steps when a defendant or party from a prior case starts circling. The AOUSC files batched removal demands across major brokers on your behalf. The Lieu Act — the Daniel Anderl Judicial Security and Privacy Act — passed in 2022 after the Salas attack.
For state judges: check whether your state has a judicial-privacy statute. Illinois does. New Jersey's Daniel's Law — its broker-removal statute — applies to judges as well as officers. Most other states fall back on the standard broker opt-out path.
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How we handle it
We work alongside the federal program for federal judges — we sweep the smaller broker sites the AOUSC doesn't always reach, and we re-check every two weeks because re-listings happen.
For state judges without a specific statute, we run the opt-out path continuously across 200+ broker sites. We sweep the household. Spouse, parents, adult kids — all linked to you on the broker pages, all at risk through you.