ADDING TO THIS LIST - AFAC has received many complaints from individuals and advocacy groups to include names of individuals or groups that they deem to be offenders on this list. The cases listed have been well documented and we will not list any individual or group where the documentation is inadequate.

            If you feel there is a person or group that needs to be included, you must submit all relevant documentation including contact information for you and the accused so the allegation and the offender’s refusal to remedy it can be verified before publication on this web site. We will not include individuals or organizations who have simply made mistakes but have acted in good faith.

     For the purposes of this listing, proposed violators must have committed any of the following acts:

 •          AGAINST CLIENT FAMILY MEMBERS - theft of client property, fraudulent solicitation of donations on behalf of victim families (this includes false representation when soliciting donations of goods, services or cash and failure to pass those donations on to the victim family), threats or acts about turning in a client family to authorities without justifiable cause, committing any act in bad faith or to obtain favors or concessions from state agencies, sexual conduct with client family members, lying to or about client families, abandoning client families on the street without money or their property, threats or acts of physical or verbal violence against a client family member, violation of client’s trust or confidentiality, exerting unreasonable control over victim families, failure or refusal to accept the decisions and choices of client family members, coercion, charging fees for advocacy services, harming client family members.

 •          AGAINST OTHER ADVOCATES - causing or bringing harm to legitimate advocates, their property or reputation, who are acting in good faith, by any means (i.e. sending computer virus, stealing or misappropriating property - including intellectual property, sending authorities to harass or intimidate the advocate, interfering with their personal or family relationships, exposing vulnerabilities to anyone, slander and libel against their good reputation and honor, etc.), committing any criminal act against a legitimate advocate, retaliation against a legitimate advocate, extorting money or services.

 •          IN GENERAL - misrepresenting qualifications or track record, taking credit which is not due, failing to properly attribute credit where it is due, lying or deception, stealing, violating or refusing to support anyone’s civil or constitutionally protected rights, acts or threats of retaliation for real or imagined wrongs, failure or refusal to work cooperatively with other legitimate advocates/organization, self-aggrandizement, any act done to forward a person or an agenda inconsistent with the principles of protecting family rights, protecting and/or failing or refusing to expose known violators within this movement, failure or refusal to correct errors and violations, exerting unreasonable control over others, braggadocio, acting in any manner (self-serving or otherwise) that undermines the integrity and efficacy of the family rights movement.