You should use your Locker to store photos, text descriptions, or other evidence of an abusive incident, and you should do this as soon as possible after the incident occurs.
You should not use your locker to store evidence obtained illegally - it could be used against you. Do not store unrelated content in your locker.
Do not use your Locker to store photographic evidence of underage sexual abuse. That counts as child pornography, and The Evidence Locker is not licensed to possess it. Submit it to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children instead.
Content saved to your Locker is potential evidence in a case against your abuser. Therefore, once you have signed a Locker exhibit, you cannot edit or delete it. Unsigned exhibits may still be edited or deleted from the exhibit's page.
Audio and video recording laws vary widely from place to place. We don't want users to accidentally "contaminate" their Locker with illegally obtained evidence. Therefore, TEL does not permit audio or video to be added to Lockers.
Audio files should be transcribed and saved to TEL as text.
Individual frames from video files can be captured as images and saved to TEL.
By default, nobody. You will be able to create both live and static export links for your Locker content, and share those links with whoever you like. You may revoke export links at any time.
No. The Evidence Locker does not provide legal advice or legal services of any kind. It is merely a specialized data storage and sharing service.
Two-factor authentication provides an extra type of account security beyond simply remembering a password. This goes a long way in preventing accounts from being stolen, hacked, or shared. Our users store highly sensitive information with us, so we require all Evidence Locker users to use two-factor authentication.
Whenever a digital signature is displayed, TEL attempts to re-validate the signature data against the Exhibit to which the signature is attached. TEL then displays one of the following symbols, based on whether or not the signature has been successfully re-validated:
- Indicates a successfully re-validated digital signature. The Exhibit was signed by the indicated user at the indicated time, and has not changed since.
- Indicates a digital signature that could not be re-validated. The Exhibit may or may not have changed since it was signed. This symbol should be rarely seen, if ever. Exhibits with invalid signatures may be re-signed, but not edited or deleted.
- There is no signature present. The exhibit has not been signed and may still be edited or deleted.
No. Your username is part of the Exhibit data that is used in your digital signatures. Changing your username would invalidate all of your existing digital signatures.
Signed journal entries cannot be edited or deleted. If you find an error in a signed entry, or learn new information that contradicts a signed entry, you should make a new journal entry detailing the correction.
UTC time is a standardized clock that does not take time zones or daylight savings into consideration.
In police investigations, a precise timeline of events is often necessary. By using UTC time instead of local time, we ensure that there is only ever one possible correct interpretation of the timestamp, regardless of travel, differences in location, local seasonal changes, or other factors.
People in the United States who would prefer to remain anonymous for now.