Ashe Umbrella Project
Ashe Umbrella Project
Every umbrella on the grass funds a machine built to fix a specific, fixable failure in how family courts find the truth. This page is the map: what we're fighting for, and the dashboards that prove every number we say.
The courts are not the villain — they're unequipped. A judge who wanted to prosecute perjury tomorrow has no tool for it: no multi-jurisdictional, real-time pulse that cross-references what was sworn here against what was filed there. Evidence still moves at fax speed through a system drowning in volume — one new family-law case every 99 seconds statewide.
What's missing is a sieve: something that reads every document the instant it arrives, analyzes it against the whole record, and puts the finding in front of the right people — without waiting in the longest line in the courthouse.
That cannot live inside the overburdened network it's meant to check. It must be separate, self-funded, and answerable to the community — with the standing to keep the record honest.
Because the alternative is a runaway freight train of injustice — and it destroys lives, destroys community, and destroys people. ☂ We're building the brakes.
Protect people. Protect progeny. Protect the protective parent.
Prosecute perjury — because prosecuting perjury prevents perjury.
The Ashé Alert System — powered by Athena. An assistive voice: she informs and connects; she never decides or adjudicates.
Prosecuting perjury prevents perjury. The cheapest security is prevention — make lying under oath cost something, and the incentive to lie collapses. Prosecution of perjury protects people.
A multi-jurisdictional, real-time cross-reference — the tool courts don't have. Every filing digitally twinned, instantly analyzed against the whole record, contradictions surfaced while they still matter.
Retired judges, real lawyers, law students, community guardians — a permanent, self-funded system outside the network, with the standing to keep it on track.
The biggest decisions of a child's life deserve a complete record — recorded, transcribed, reviewable. Athena's courtroom mission begins with nothing going unheard.
Documents analyzed the moment they arrive, page by page, the same engine that processed the state's own 199-page caseload report into the dashboards below.
Trained court-watchers and case-readiness reviewers — presence changes behavior; documentation changes incentives.
When everyone lies together, the child loses alone. Every process fix on this page exists to keep the smallest voice from being the easiest to drown out.
Most parents in family court stand alone. Case-readiness clinics turn "alone" into "prepared."
Law students earn their spurs in the Center — every cohort compounds the capacity the system lacks.
One father's 620 days = 892,800 minutes. That signature count is more than a statewide ballot measure requires. The clock is the petition.
Rent shade, fund shelter. Every booking receipt says what your afternoon stood for. Party with a purpose is the funding model, not a slogan.
A movement needs soil; a machine needs fuel. Umbrella rentals, Social Club memberships, and market days at the lake make the Center self-funded and independent — no grants to chase, no institution to please, no strings that can pull it off course. You relax lakeside; the receipts build the brakes on the freight train.
The mission: put Athena in the courtroom — cameras, complete information, and prosecuted perjury — by gathering 874,641 valid signatures, carried by our pledge goal of 892,800: one for every minute one father lost.
California family court by the official numbers — 318,729 filings, 1 in 4 domestic violence — every figure page-cited from the Judicial Council's own report.
Open the numbers →All 58 counties, extracted and audited to the exact statewide total — including Alameda, the 9th-busiest family-law county, home of our lake.
See your county →The 2025 Court Statistics Report, all 199 pages, mirrored here. Don't take our word — download the state's.
Download the PDF →Day 621 and counting — how one father's countdown clock became an engine, and what Athena does at the lake and in the courtroom.
Read why →Tell your story — named or anonymous. Five questions, or twenty. Every story is a stitch in the blanket of justice, and it trains the engine that finds the gaps.
Add your stitch →