Kathleen Russell & Robin Sax, Fox11’s former Legal Analyst, helped launch the “Lost in the System” investigative series with producer Martin Burns.
Since its inception, the Center for Judicial Excellence has spent countless hours helping journalists understand and report on the complexities of the family court crisis. We understand what journalists need and the real barriers that exist for those who want to report on this crisis, and we have helped dozens of producers, reporters, anchors, and editors overcome them by providing solid research, credible sources, trusted spokespeople, and effective angles that tell the story. Focusing media coverage on widespread system failure and meaningful efforts to fix it, rather than individual court cases, has helped news organizations get past the “he said, she said” concerns that used to kill these stories by the dozen.
CJE has also conducted media advocacy coaching and training with family court survivors who often need help condensing their many years of court-induced trauma into digestible sound bites that make sense to people who haven’t experienced the Alice-In-Wonderland of the family court crisis.
Click below for a sampling of the hundreds of news stories that CJE has helped generate about the family court crisis online, in print, and on the airwaves.
Media Projects
- Family Court Crisis: Our Children at Risk Film
- Family Court Crisis Online Photo Exhibit
- Family Court Crisis Slideshow
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- Kathleen Russell & Robin Sax, Fox11′s former Legal Analyst, before the taping of Fox’s True Crime Stories half-hour special on the broken court system in California.
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- KRC worked closely with FOX producer Martin Burns to produce this segment.
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- A protective Mom from Utah and her kids heard about our White House protest in a local paper in the DC area and came out to show their support. She was an active military member when a Utah family court wreaked havoc on her family’s life.
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- Protective mothers and a courageous young woman who’ve survived family court ordeals came to testify to the Assembly Select Committee on Domestic Violence. The two-hour televised hearing focused on the impacts of domestic violence on children.
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- Kathleen Russell exposes the family court crisis on Fox11 News in LA in the Fall of 2012.
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- Protective Mom Linda Marie Sacks from Florida, & CJE consultant Steve Burdo light candles at one of the many White House vigils on Mother’s Day weekend.
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- Protective mother Yupa Assawasuksant (Marin County, CA) distributes her written remarks to the Elkins Task Force, where she testified along with more than 30 other protective parents whose children were being harmed because of the corrupt family courts in northern California.
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- Kathleen with the BMCC co-founders Mo Hannah and Barry Goldstein
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- CJE and fellow advocates held a briefing on the family court crisis in the Spring of 2010, with former Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) and Congressman Ted Poe (R-TX).
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- Co-Chair of the Congressional Victims Rights Caucus, Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX) addresses the experts and advocates gathered to discuss the family court crisis with federal lawmakers.
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- Steve Burdo, Marivic Mabanag, then Assemblyman Jim Beall, and Kathleen Russell attended a fundraising receptionfor the Safe Child Coalition at a Sacramento restaurant.
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- Many moms who come to DC for the annual Mother’s Day protest fear punishment by the judge in their case for participating in protest activities, so they come wearing scarves or other camouflaging headgear to hide their identities.