Home addresses of federal judges available online, new report says
A view of the home of U.S. District Judge Esther Salas of the District of New Jersey. In July 2020, Salas’ son, Daniel Anderl, was shot and killed, and her husband, defense attorney Mark Anderl, was injured when a man dressed as a delivery person came to their front door and opened fire in North Brunswick, New Jersey. (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)
Federal judges’ home addresses are available online, according to a new report, despite a judicial security law intended to protect their information as they face escalating threats.
Researchers located the home addresses for all 100 of the federal judges they targeted, even though many of them were enrolled in the judiciary’s vulnerability management program intended to scrub their personal information from publicly available sources.
The report, issued Sept. 1, found that the federal law—known as the Daniel Anderl Judicial Security and Privacy Act—is failing to protect judges, particularly when compared to a similar New Jersey state law aimed at protecting state judges and officers.
The New Jersey law allows people to bring private lawsuits to force data brokers to remove their information, according to a story by Bloomberg Law.
The report was authored by Matthew Adkisson, the founder and president of the Atlas Data Privacy Corp. and John Muffler, a former chief inspector for the U.S. Marshals Service.
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