• Encouraging media to avoid showing photographs of your family or your residence after there has been an incident of court-related news or violence. Investing time to get acquainted with media personnel will help them understand your concerns.
• Avoiding being quoted in the news in such a manner as to make the public think you fear violence or that you think you are not at risk. Such quotes can be taken either as an invitation or as a challenge.
• Not allowing the media to learn the names, ages, or schools of your minor children.
• Not telling the news media the security you have in place.
• Not upgrading any photographs that may be on file with the news media or the government if you can avoid it. An exception is the photograph that should accompany an official “Personal and Family Information Sheet” which is confidentially maintained.
  

Communication Ideas

• Addressing people with a tone of respect and humility rather than anger or sarcasm.
• Using a home telephone answering machine to screen calls.
• Not announcing your name and phone number on the outgoing message of your home answering machine.
• Never providing personal information to anyone, i.e. when, where, and times that family members are to arrive. Not announcing to the public that you are going out of town for vacation, school, or business. In public discussing ideas or past activities rather than future activities with friends, barber, hairdresser, repairmen, and others. Letting your friends and extended family know your travel plans are confidential.
• Only individuals with a need to know having knowledge that your family is connected with the judiciary. If asked, identifying yourself or your spouse as an attorney, government employee, etc.
• Not allowing strangers to overhear your personal telephone calls.
• If you discover vandalism to your home, call law enforcement directly. Keep that number on your person and near telephones at your home. Avoid calling 911 or other switchboards broadcast on citizen’s band radios. One family reports their call to 911 reached journalists who rushed to their home and later published their address in the newspaper.