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A public red-team issue register for due process, safety exceptions, fiscal capacity, judicial-administration risk, and next-revision hardening.
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This page separates statutory ambition from legal-risk cleanup. It does not replace counsel, the Secretary of State process, or final legislative drafting. It gives the public text a disciplined issue register before the next revision.
Download: initiative_red_team_issue_register.csv · Machine-readable: initiative-red-team-issues.json
| Issue | Risk | Likely attack | Hardening response |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fee caps and payment restrictions | High | Could be attacked as interfering with access to counsel, contracts, or judicial discretion | Narrow scope, define what is capped, preserve court authority, add hardship/complexity exceptions, require data reporting before broad caps |
| Criminal penalties for litigation conduct | High | Could be attacked as chilling advocacy or good-faith protective action | Move from broad criminalization to narrow, knowing, material misconduct with due-process protections and existing-law alignment |
| Parental-alienation definitions | High | Could be attacked as vague, misused against abuse survivors, or unsupported if drafted too broadly | Use conduct-specific child-contact interference language, keep abuse/coercive-control exceptions, and require fact development |
| Protective-allegation misuse provisions | High | Could chill good-faith abuse reporting or safety planning | Explicit good-faith reporting protection, trauma-informed review, materiality standard, and safe-harbor language |
| GAL capacity and independence | Medium | Could fail if duties expand without capacity, training, or funding | Phase implementation, define caseload standards, reporting, conflict checks, and funding mechanism |
| DHHS/OCFS screening overlap | Medium | Could blur private family court with child-protection jurisdiction | Separate lanes, use official reporting boundaries, preserve mandated-reporting and emergency processes |
| Judicial Branch administration | High | Could trigger separation-of-powers objections | Frame as reporting, timelines, public metrics, and administrative standards that preserve adjudicatory independence |
| Due-process safeguards | High | Any expedited timeline or sanction risks unfairness if not paired with notice and hearing rights | Add notice, opportunity to be heard, findings, appeal/review path, and safety exceptions |
| Fiscal and implementation capacity | Medium | Could be dismissed as unfunded mandate or impossible rollout | Add phased pilot, fiscal note request, staffing model, reporting schedule, and sunset/review provisions |
| Victim-safety and coercive-control exceptions | High | Critics will attack any language that appears to force contact where abuse risk exists | Make safety exceptions prominent, require individualized findings, and preserve protection-order/DHHS/criminal-court routes |
Keep the current public text available while clearly marked as draft/pre-submission.
Open initiativeUse the claim matrix to keep findings, data, research, and campaign argument separated.
Open evidence standardsUse Dashboard 2.0 to align reform claims with source dates, metric definitions, and public reporting gaps.
Open Dashboard 2.0Use rev08a for the next safer, harder-to-attack framework; use the public review center for side-by-side explanation, risk notes, source discipline, and safe comment boundaries.