Methodology

How this archive is built, how facts are verified, what is and isn't published here, and how to request corrections or removal. Read this page before citing the archive for anything important.

Conflict-of-interest disclosure

The author of this archive is the plaintiff in the litigation it documents. Kellye Strickland (Onion Madder) is the plaintiff in Strickland v. Ramsey County et al., the federal civil-rights matter that is the subject of this site. She built it, maintains it, and writes its editorial content.

This is the most significant fact about this archive. Treat the dossiers, updates, and analysis here as one party's documented record of an ongoing case — not as a neutral third-party report. The primary documents (filings, orders, exhibits) are reproduced verbatim from public sources and can be independently verified at the cited locations. The editorial commentary is the plaintiff's, marked as such, and reflects her interpretation.

How documents are sourced

Every document, claim, and pattern published in this archive originates from one or more of the following sources:

Public databases. Minnesota Court Records Online (MCRO), PACER (federal court records), state legislative records, professional licensing registries, campaign finance databases, and other publicly accessible government records systems.
FOIA and public-records requests. Formal requests submitted under the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act (MGDPA), federal FOIA, and equivalent open-records frameworks. Where requests are denied, the denial itself is documented.
Name and entity cross-referencing. Manual and tooling-assisted tracking of the same actors, case numbers, attorneys, and procedural patterns across unrelated litigation. This is how the cross-case parallels (Wright, Scheffler, and others) surface.
Custom tooling. Small purpose-built apps and scripts to organize, index, and search large document sets — built when an off-the-shelf solution doesn't fit the shape of the data.
Internet research. Open-source intelligence (OSINT) practice — court website snapshots, archived web pages, public statements by named actors, social-media activity that is itself public-record.
Email outreach. Direct correspondence with government offices, oversight bodies, and other litigants. Where a public official answers, the response is treated as on-the-record.

Verification standard

The standard is simple and inflexible: every claim of fact on this site is supported by publicly sourced evidence. There are no anonymous tips repeated as fact, no "according to sources" attributions, no inferences presented as findings.

The archive publishes two things and labels them clearly:

Documented facts. Events, filings, orders, statements, and actions that are recorded in a primary source. Each is tied to the document or public record establishing it.
Potential patterns or causes. Where multiple documented facts together suggest a structural or systemic explanation, that pattern is identified — but always framed as a documented pattern, not as a conclusion or accusation. The reader is given the same data the author has.

What this archive does not publish: unverified allegations, anonymous accusations, speculation about motive without supporting record, or any claim of fact that cannot be tied to a primary document or public source.

Documented facts and the patterns they describe. Nothing more, nothing less.

Chain of custody

For every document referenced or reproduced in this archive, the author maintains a record of where the file came from — typically the original URL (PACER docket entry, MCRO link, archive.org snapshot, government records portal, or other public-source location). Where the document was obtained through correspondence (FOIA response, email reply from a public office), the originating message is preserved.

[Editorial: until now this provenance information has been maintained privately. As the archive matures, the provenance URL for each document will appear directly under its entry in the documents index so any visitor can trace the chain themselves. Strike this paragraph if/when that's no longer accurate.]

Editorial labels

Content on the site falls into one of three categories:

Primary source. The actual document — PDFs in the documents index and direct excerpts from court records. Reproduced verbatim.
Documented record. Statements of fact derived from primary sources, attributed to the underlying document. The dossier "Why It Matters" and "What Happened" framings are documented record.
Editorial commentary. The author's interpretation, naming, tone, or conclusions. Marked visually throughout the site — often as italicized pull-quotes or as the framing intros to dossier sections — and labeled explicitly where the distinction matters most.

The dossier subtitles ("Queer Hypocrite," "Procedural Opportunist," "The First Official Record") are editorial. The underlying allegations on each dossier page are documented record. The connection between the two — that the documented record warrants the subtitle — is editorial.

Corrections and removal requests

Mistakes happen. If you find one — a misattribution, an outdated link, a misstated fact, an entry that needs correction — the author wants to know.

Corrections: email onionmadder@gmail.com with the URL, the specific claim, and the correcting source. Corrections are made on receipt and dated.
Removal requests: use the removal request form. Requests are acknowledged within seven days. The form supports privacy frameworks including California (CCPA), Europe (GDPR), and the right-to-be-forgotten where it applies.

Public officials acting in their public capacity, and parties to ongoing litigation, generally cannot be removed from the documented record of that litigation. Private individuals named only incidentally — and any minor's information that slipped through — are removed on request.

What this archive is NOT

Not legal advice. Nothing on this site constitutes legal advice, attorney-client communication, or a substitute for counsel. If you recognize yourself or your situation in any dossier, consult a licensed attorney in your jurisdiction.
Not the official court record. The official record lives at the courthouse and on PACER / MCRO. Where this archive contradicts the official record, the official record controls — and where they contradict each other, the documented contradiction is the point.
Not a substitute for primary sources. Anyone citing this archive for serious purposes — journalism, litigation, oversight — should pull the underlying primary documents and verify independently. Links to those sources are provided throughout for exactly that purpose.
Not a neutral third party. See the conflict-of-interest disclosure above. The author is the plaintiff.