New Judicial Security Program Helps Over 2,000 Judges, Relatives

A judicial security program meant to help federal judges remove their personal information from the internet helped over 1,700 judges last year, according to a new judiciary report.

The federal judiciary’s Vulnerability Management Program was created in 2022 after a litigant shot and killed the son of a federal judge in New Jersey. The program in 2024 “provided services” to the nearly 2,000 judges, as well as 114 retired judges and 235 family members, according to an annual Administrative Office for the US Courts report released on Tuesday. There are over 800 active federal judges, as well as several hundred ...