Legal-accuracy validation
Review all legal and process claims on the understanding, resources, and Katia’s Law pages — Hague accuracy, Central Authority facts, prevention-program descriptions.
Project KATIA · For professionals
We built an initial framework. Help us make it better.
We are seeking qualified professionals to review, challenge, and improve what we have built — an initial framework of research, plain-language explainers, a verified resource index, a privacy model, and an early policy proposal. Your expertise can make it safer, more accurate, and more useful.
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No attorney-client relationship is created by contacting us. Do not send confidential case information, children’s records, or sensitive evidence through public channels. We do not accept case information, and we do not perform outreach on behalf of anyone. For a specific situation, contact the relevant official organization or a qualified professional directly.
Who we are seeking
- International family-law attorneys — to review legal accuracy and framing.
- Hague Convention practitioners — 1980 Abduction Convention and Central Authority practice.
- Policy attorneys and legislative professionals — for Katia’s Law concepts.
- Child-abduction specialists — prevention, response, and reunification practice.
- Child-advocacy experts — safeguarding, best-interest, and family-welfare review.
- Former agency / government professionals — State Department, DOJ, CBP, consular, or Central Authority experience.
- Academics — family law, international law, child welfare, public policy.
- Privacy and security experts — data minimization, intake gating, threat modeling.
- Technologists — AI, information systems, translation, accessibility.
How review works
- Contact us via the public contact route with your name, role, and what you would like to review.
- We share the relevant public pages, verification records, and context — never case data, never children’s records.
- You review, challenge, or improve — as a professional courtesy, pro bono, with no compensation promised or implied.
- We incorporate feedback into public pages through the normal review chain.
Adversarial review is explicitly welcome. On Katia’s Law, we want people who can argue against it — a proposal that survives its own hardest questions is more credible than one that has never been challenged.
Pro bono collaboration
Professional-courtesy and pro bono collaboration.
We are an early-stage organization: not incorporated, not a nonprofit, and not tax-exempt. We cannot offer fees, retainers, or tax benefits. What we can offer is meaningful work — improving tools and resources that may help families in crisis — and a review process that takes your time seriously and credits your contribution.
If you are a qualified professional willing to donate time to review, mentor, or challenge this program, contact us →
What we need help with
Specific, itemized needs.
Each item below is a concrete request. If you can help with one, tell us which — a concise subject helps us route it correctly.
Policy review
Katia’s Law concepts: prevention-chain analysis, CPIAP/CBP interactions, constitutional, privacy, due-process, and domestic-violence stress-testing.
International / Hague review
Country-specific accuracy of the resource index and contact directories; expansion priorities by jurisdiction.
Privacy / security review
Privacy architecture (GREEN-only public surface, publication-boundary policy), future-intake gating design, threat modeling.
Public-resource validation
Verify and expand the verified index — new countries, official-route changes, dead links, trustworthiness criteria.
Katia’s Law policy review
Review the developing policy proposal’s concepts for feasibility, unintended consequences, and missing safeguards. (Internal draft language is not circulated publicly.)
Legislative-drafting review
For the Katia’s Law workstream: qualified legislative drafting or attorney review of concept-level language before any formal step.
Pro bono interest
Tell us your area of expertise and how much time you can offer. We will match it to the workstream where it helps most.
Anything we missed
If you see a risk, an error, or a gap not listed here, that is exactly the kind of feedback we want. Challenge the framework.
How to contact us: use the public contact route with a concise subject such as “Project KATIA Professional Inquiry” and state your role and what you would like to review. No confidential case information, children’s records, or sensitive evidence — ever, through any public channel. If you face an active or imminent abduction emergency, contact the appropriate court, law enforcement, attorneys, and government agencies immediately.
Privacy notice for visitors: Project Katia is a developing humanitarian initiative. This website provides general information and links to official resources. It is not a law firm, government service, emergency service, or case-management provider, and it does not collect or accept personal case information. Do not send children’s records, identity documents, court files, medical information, or sensitive case evidence through this website.