Courts

By now you’ve certainly heard about the attack on Paul Pelosi, husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, at their home in San Francisco. Unfortunately such incidents are no longer rare as the divisive nature of our national politics continues to intensify.

In just this current election season, a knife-wielding man attacked Lee Zeldin, a candidate for New York governor; a man tried to assault Senate candidate Don Bolduc at a campaign event, and a gunshot was fired at the family home of North Carolina Congressional candidate Pat Harrigan.

October has been a busy month here as our team of privacy and security experts hit the road for tradeshows in Texas and New Jersey.

MAACM Annual Conference

Our first stop was the 29th Annual Conference of the Mid-Atlantic Association for Court Management (MAACM), held in Atlantic City. There we spoke to security leaders for courts in several states, and as a result, many more judges will soon have the peace of mind of knowing that their home addresses and other private information will no longer be easily accessible online.

It has been two years since Daniel Anderl, the son of federal Judge Esther Salas, was killed in a 2020 attack at her New Jersey home. The Daniel Anderl Judicial Security and Privacy Act was a bill introduced into Congress the following year that would allow current and former federal judges to ask public-facing websites to remove personal information about themselves or immediate family members.

The California Judges Association was established in 1929 and is the professional association representing the interests of the judiciary of the State of California. Members include judges of the Superior Courts and Courts of Appeal, Commissioners of State courts and State Bar Court judges. Recently the CJA held its annual convention in San Diego, and the IronWall360 team from 360Civic was honored to be among the attendees.

The annual Court Leadership and Academy Conference recently concluded three days of meetings and presentations in Anaheim, California. The event was hosted by the National Association For Presiding Judges and Court Executive Officers (NAPCO).

You knew it was coming before it happened.

Days after the FBI executed a search warrant on former President Donald Trump’s Florida residence, the judge that approved that warrant began receiving death threats.

Just months after Supreme Court justices found themselves in a similar situation, someone posted the judge’s home address on websites and posted anti-Semitic slurs that resulted in his synagogue canceling Friday night services as a precaution.

The more places that have your home address, the more likely that address will end up in a database that gets shared, purchased, or hacked. A post office box can help limit that exposure – but unfortunately, even here your identity and location are not as secure as they seem.

The IronWall360 team from 360Civic recently returned from the annual National Association for Court Management (NACM) conference in Milwaukee.

NACM is the world's largest organization of court management professionals with members from all levels and courts. It was an excellent opportunity to connect with court management and judges about our privacy protection service, and how we can keep these public servants and their families safe by removing their private information online.

We are pleased to announce that our company will offer 90 days of free online privacy protection for anyone impacted by the recent accidental disclosure of private information by the California Department of Justice (DOJ).

This breach revealed the personal information of individuals who were granted or denied a concealed and carry weapons (CCW) permit between 2011-2021. The information exposed included names, addresses, dates of birth, gender, race, driver’s license numbers, and criminal histories. 

The sole function of our IronWall360 privacy protection service is to protect you and your family, by making sure your private information is removed from the internet. This makes it understandably awkward when, as judges and police departments sign up for our service, the first thing we need to collect from them is…their private information.