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    What we do store

      If served, here's what a subpoena reaches

      Current canary items

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        The Best Interests of Who Foundation

        In the best interest of the truth.

        Crowdsourced accountability for family court outcomes. Zero-knowledge — no identifying information is ever collected.

        CHILD — Corruption Hidden In Legal Decisions
        KIDS — Keeping Integrity in Domestic Systems
        LIVE DATA
        5
        Cases in tracker
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        14%
        Avg non-primary custody
        Census SIPP 2022: 18%
        $2,100
        Est. IV-D revenue per child/yr
        HHS OCSE FY2023 national avg
        457
        Judges tracked
        21 states · 39 jurisdictions
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        Explore the Map
        See IV-D revenue, arrears, custody patterns, and judge data across all 50 states. Click any state to drill into counties and individual courts.
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        Your case data is anonymous and builds the statistical record. Every submission adds to the pattern proof that courts cannot ignore.
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        Find Your Judge
        Search 457 tracked family court judges across 21 states. See their court, appointments, and case submission data from your community.
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        Pattern analysis updates automatically as cases are submitted. Charts below require a minimum of 10 cases per judge and 30 for chi-square significance.

        Custody distribution vs Census benchmark

        Days parents separated from children

        Gag orders per judge — annual estimate

        Pro se vs represented — avg custody %

        Income imputed vs actual — by state

        Continuances per case — billing signal

        ⬡ MAP
        Heat map:
        IV-D Revenue
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        1 — Complaint type
        2 — Your state
        3 — Subject of complaint
        4 — What happened (key facts)
        5 — Issues (check all that apply)
        Tone
        Select a complaint type, your state, and who the complaint is about. The AI will draft a complete, ready-to-file letter and show you exactly where to send it, what to attach, and what to expect.
        Your state
        Letter purpose
        Your case context (optional)
        Tone
        Select your state to see your representatives and their contact info. The AI drafts a letter using your state's IV-D financial data and case context, pre-populated with the specific numbers that matter.
        This section presents mathematical proof that family court outcomes are predetermined by template — not determined by the facts of individual cases. Each analysis uses statistical methods that courts, legislators, and journalists can verify independently.
        Based on real submitted cases in your state. This is a statistical estimate — not a legal prediction. Use it to plan, budget, and understand what you are likely to face.
        Your case details
        State cost comparison — median contested case
        Zero-knowledge submission. We collect no name, email, IP address, or identifying metadata. Your token is generated in your browser — we store only a mathematical hash. For maximum anonymity use Tor Browser from tails.boum.org.
        Case basics
        Timeline — delays & days without children
        Parenting schedule & custody
        Financial — income, support, arrears
        Enforcement, orders, gag orders
        ACF / IV-D Benefit Programs (payors): Federal law requires states to offer alternatives to enforcement. Did the court or agency offer — and did you get to use — any of the following?
        Out-of-court settlement
        Court-appointed professionals
        Campaign finance & conflicts
        Description & impact
        📚 Help build the database
        If anyone in your case isn't listed yet — judge, attorney, GAL, evaluator, etc. — add what you know. We verify everything before publishing.
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        Judges are public officials. Their rulings, outcomes, and conduct in official capacity are public record. Campaign finance data is from public state election records. The corruption index is a composite of eight weighted pattern indicators. Community reports document patterns — not personal attacks. Official judicial conduct commission links are provided for each state.
        Attorneys listed are licensed professionals subject to state bar oversight. Bar numbers and verification links are included. Bias scores reflect submitted pattern data. Campaign finance records are public. Submit bar complaints through official state bar links provided.
        Court appointees represent mandatory costs no family can refuse. Tracking who orders them, AFCC memberships, recommendation patterns, and costs reveals the financial ecosystem. Add appointees from your case below.
        Add an appointee from your case
        Appeals expose judicial error rates and the financial barrier to correcting them. Transcripts alone run $1,800–$5,200. The system is designed to make error correction prohibitively expensive for average families.

        Outcomes

        Average cost by component

        Submit an appeal record
        AFCC connects judges, attorneys, GALs, evaluators, and parenting coordinators who refer, appoint, and testify for each other — creating closed financial ecosystems billing $40,000–$80,000 per family. Membership is public record.

        AFCC judges — appointment rates per case type

        AFCC vs non-AFCC appointees — % recommending mother primary

        Campaign finance — attorney donations to presiding judges (public record)
        All 39 states with elected judges have public campaign finance records. Donations within 2 years of case appearances are flagged red.
        In 39 states, family court judges run for election. Their campaign donors are the same attorneys who appear in their courtrooms. This is your most powerful tool — vote them out.
        Generate a voter guide for your county
        Lobbying money — who funds the status quo
        Track bills that could fix the system — and who is blocking them. Use the contact buttons to reach your representatives directly.
        Every number here represents a family. This section tracks what happens to children — not just parents. Including a separate submission form for adults who were children in contested custody cases.

        Children's stated preference vs court order

        Days parents separated from children — before any order

        Primary reason for separation from children

        Foster care pipeline — CPS to adoption with federal revenue

        Average days without children — by state

        Adult children submission — were you a child in a contested custody case?
        Your voice is the most powerful data on this platform. Courts dismiss parent concerns as self-interested. They cannot dismiss the voices of the children those proceedings affected. Same zero-knowledge architecture — your identity is never collected.
        Adult child accounts submitted
        The financial architecture of family court is structural. Every professional is paid per appointment. Every continuance is a billing event. Every order is a revenue node. This section maps total extraction per family.

        Actual income vs court-imputed income — by state

        Support as % of actual income — case distribution

        In-kind spending vs support ordered vs credited

        Arrears — principal vs interest vs retroactive

        Total cost architecture — avg per contested case

        States graded on actual outcome data from submitted cases and official government sources. Click any state for detailed breakdown.

        Custody equity score by state

        Income inflation rate by state

        OCSE / ACF multi-year fraud indicators
        ACF vs Census coverage gap
        The evader-list paradox — public shaming vs "100% collection" claims
        Full state report card
        StateGradeAvg non-prim %Income inflationData transparencyArrears rateIV-D ($M)Gag order rate
        Cryptographically timestamp your documents without uploading them. Your file never leaves your device — only its mathematical fingerprint is recorded permanently on the Arweave blockchain. Use this to prove a document existed and was unaltered at a specific date.
        Document Timestamping — Blockchain Proof of Existence

        Select any document from your case. We compute its cryptographic hash (SHA-256) in your browser. The hash is published to the Arweave blockchain — creating a permanent, tamper-proof timestamp. If anyone later claims the document was altered, this record proves it was not. Your document never leaves your device.

        Your timestamped documents
        What this protects against

        Common scenarios where blockchain timestamps matter

        • Income documentation: Timestamp your pay stubs and W-2s immediately. If a court later imputes a different income, your timestamped documents prove what you actually earned at that date.
        • Court orders: Timestamp every order you receive immediately. If an order is later claimed to have been modified, your timestamp proves the original text.
        • Communications: Timestamp screenshots of texts and emails while they are fresh. Establishes they were not altered before submission.
        • CPS reports: If you receive an unfounded CPS report, timestamp it immediately. Creates an immutable record that the investigation was closed without findings.
        • Financial records: Timestamp bank statements, credit card records, and receipts showing your actual spending on children — proving in-kind contributions courts routinely ignore.
        This platform is a press organization. Our data is available for journalistic use. We have had our methodology reviewed by press freedom counsel. All data derives from community submissions and official public records. Publishing analysis of public officials' official conduct is protected First Amendment activity.
        Data downloads
        Story angles — supported by our data
        Expert contacts for journalists
        Press contact

        Media inquiries

        For press inquiries about methodology, data, or to arrange interviews with case submitters who have consented to media contact:

        Email: press@fca.is (ProtonMail — end-to-end encrypted)
        PGP key: Available at /FCA_PUBLIC_KEY.asc
        Response time: 48–72 hours
        Tor-accessible: http://[onion-address].onion

        Legal structure: This project operates as a journalism and civil rights advocacy organization under Icelandic press law. We are represented by counsel from the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. Prior restraint orders targeting this platform will be contested in federal court on First Amendment grounds.

        Verify our data: All statistical claims are reproducible from our open dataset. Source code for all calculations is published at [github-link]. Independent academic review of our methodology is available on request.

        Warrant Canary — Updated weekly

        As of the date below, this project has received NO subpoenas, national security letters, court orders, legal demands for user data, or gag orders preventing disclosure of such demands. We have not been compelled to modify our data collection practices.

        Why we cannot hand over your data under subpoena

        This platform uses zero-knowledge architecture. We are technically incapable of identifying who submitted what.

        • We do NOT collect: name, email, IP address, device fingerprint, cookies, browser headers, or any identifying metadata. Our server discards all request logs before writing to disk.
        • We DO collect: the statistical record you fill out — state, year, financial data, outcome data, court name, judge name, attorney name (official capacity), and a one-way hash of your submission token.
        • Submission tokens: generated in your browser, shown once, never stored. Only a mathematical hash is stored — impossible to reverse.
        • Subpoena response: "We have no IP logs, no user accounts, no names, no identifying metadata. The database export is the entirety of our data. No responsive records identifying individuals exist."

        How to submit with maximum anonymity

        • Tor Browser (torproject.org) — strongest option. Routes through multiple servers, prevents IP identification.
        • Mullvad VPN — paid with cash, no email required. Strong second option.
        • Public WiFi — library or coffee shop you rarely visit. Do not use home or work network.
        • Description field: Do not include details that uniquely identify your case. Judge names, attorney names, and court appointee names in official capacity are appropriate and important.
        • Your token: Store written on paper — not in a cloud note or screenshot.

        Legal protections

        • First Amendment: Documentation of public officials' official conduct is core protected speech. Courts cannot suppress reporting on judicial proceedings. Near v. Minnesota (1931).
        • Shield laws: 40 states protect journalists and advocacy publishers from being compelled to reveal sources.
        • Gag orders: Gag orders bind parties to a case — not the press. We are not a party to any case we document. A judge ordering us to remove documentation of their own conduct is a prior restraint — unconstitutional under settled law.
        • Icelandic jurisdiction: Our operating entity is registered in Iceland under the IMMI press protection framework. US civil subpoenas have no reach to Icelandic editorial operations.

        Resources

        • Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press: rcfp.org · (800) 336-4243
        • Electronic Frontier Foundation: eff.org
        • Freedom of the Press Foundation: freedom.press
        • National Coalition for Family Justice: ncfjustice.org
        • National Parents Organization: nationalparentsorganization.org
        • If served with legal papers related to this platform: Call Reporters Committee immediately. Do not respond without counsel. You have rights.