Fund the Auditor
Public Interest — No Cost — Open Model

Fund First Amendment
Auditors.

First Amendment auditors document unconstitutional police conduct on camera and collect civil rights settlements. The capital gap between the violation and the settlement check is why most of them stop. This site exists to close that gap — and to give the model away.

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The Problem

The gap nobody is filling.

First Amendment auditing works. An auditor with a camera, documented violations, and a competent civil rights attorney can produce settlements from departments that would otherwise face zero consequences. The mechanism is proven. The problem is capital: between the violation and the settlement check, auditors need to survive. Equipment. Travel. Living expenses. Legal fees. Most settlements take 12 to 24 months. Most auditors aren't independently wealthy. Most stop before they build a track record.

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Civil rights attorneys can't fund the auditors directly — champerty and barratry rules bar it. Civil rights organizations are nonprofit, slow, and selective. Investors don't know where to plug in. The auditors themselves are grinding on fumes between violations and settlements. The gap is structural. The model is how it closes.

Who This Is For

Three people need to find each other.

The model requires a First Amendment auditor, a capital partner, and an operator. None of them are hard to find. They are already operating in the same ecosystem without a structure that connects them.

The Auditor

You document violations. You need capital to keep going.

If you have a track record of clean, documented violations on camera, the advance covers the gap between the violation and the settlement. Discipline is the filter. The incentive structure handles everything else.

How to get funded as a First Amendment auditor →
The Attorney

You see strong cases walk out the door. You can invest.

Bar rules prevent funding litigation directly. Passive investment in a funding entity — fully hands off, no case direction, no auditor recruitment — is the clean path. Get the ethics opinion first.

Attorney capital partner structure →
The Investor

You have capital and mission alignment.

Every dollar of return came from a documented constitutional violation. The profit is the accountability mechanism. That is what civil rights impact investing looks like.

Civil rights impact investing →
The Full Model

The argument, split into pages.

The Model

Performance-only litigation finance for First Amendment auditing. The camera provides binary performance verification that standard litigation finance can't get elsewhere. No settlement — no payment to anyone.

How the funding model works →

Why Money Works

Moral arguments prime the culture. Financial pressure is what actually moves institutions — and history is unambiguous on this. ADA compliance. Big Tobacco. Seatbelts. The lever is always financial.

Why financial pressure drives police reform →

The 10% Tithe

The straightforward cases — clean documented violations on camera — fund the model. Ten percent of net profits goes to civil rights cases too righteous and complex for standard contingency representation.

How the 10% tithe works →

The Idea

One entity executing this model is a business. One hundred entities executing it simultaneously across every major city is an industry — and an industry is what actually moves municipal budgets past the tipping point.

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The model is free

Start a fund in your city.

The idea, the infrastructure, and the connections to get started are available at no cost. If you are an auditor, an attorney, or an investor who sees this clearly — submit your information. We will help you build the MVP.

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Common Questions

What people ask first.

Fund the Auditor is a public information resource explaining a performance-only litigation finance model for funding First Amendment auditors. Auditors document unconstitutional police conduct on camera. When those documented violations produce civil rights settlements, the funding advance is recovered from settlement proceeds. No settlement — no payment from the auditor.

The model, the site, and the infrastructure to launch your own fund are free to use, replicate, and spread without attribution. The idea is the contribution.

Litigation finance — advancing capital to a party in exchange for a portion of settlement proceeds — is legal in civil suits in the United States. What is new here is the application: pointed specifically at First Amendment auditing, where on-camera evidence provides binary performance verification.

Attorney capital partners must obtain a formal ethics opinion from bar counsel before structuring. Bar rules on passive investment in litigation finance entities vary by state. This is a non-negotiable prerequisite — see the attorney structure page for detail.

Three participants: a First Amendment auditor with a demonstrated track record of clean, documented violations on camera; a civil rights attorney or mission-aligned investor with capital to deploy; and an operator who can structure and run the funding entity.

These three people are already in the ecosystem. This site exists to give them a structure that connects them and a model that makes the economics work for all three.

Submit your information at the Start a Fund form. Tell us which role you are filling — auditor, attorney, or investor — and your jurisdiction. We provide free platform infrastructure (a GoHighLevel sub-account and a website for your fund) and will connect you with the right counterparts where we can.

If you have the participants already, you do not need to submit anything. Read the full model, secure the bar ethics opinion if you are the attorney, and build. The model is yours to use.