Civil Liberties · Systemic Accountability · Kansas City, MO

Kill thePrecedent.

The legal, political, and cultural infrastructure that protects institutions over people must be dismantled — one precedent at a time.

Founded by Toni Bones · Activist · Organizer · Citizen Media Producer
Present: Ferguson Uprising · CopBlock · On the Ground

Est. by Necessity
Kill the Precedent exists to name, document, and dismantle the legal doctrines, institutional cultures, and policy structures that allow governments to harm the people they claim to protect — and face no consequence for it.

We believe accountability is not optional. Transparency is not radical. And the right to parent, to live freely, and to exist without state-sanctioned harm is not a privilege to be granted — it is a right to be defended.

We are advocates, researchers, media producers, and survivors. We build the infrastructure of accountability that should already exist.
01

Qualified Immunity

Documenting and advocating against the doctrine that shields government actors from civil liability — even when they violate your constitutional rights.

02

Domestic Violence & Coercive Control

Exposing how family courts systematically revictimize survivors — building the language, data, and legal frameworks to stop it.

03

Child Welfare & Family Court

Tracing the pipeline from foster care to trafficking, analyzing Title IV-E funding incentives, and fighting the doctrine used to punish survivors.

04

Neurodivergence & Systemic Bias

Challenging the disproportionate targeting of neurodivergent parents and building literacy for professionals who hold power over their lives.

The system is not broken

It is functioning exactly as designed — to protect institutions from the people they harm. Qualified immunity is not a bug. The foster care pipeline is not an accident. The silence around coercive control in family courts is not an oversight. These are features. Kill the Precedent exists to make them visible and make them costly.

This is lived experience as expertise

Our founder is not theorizing from a distance. She is a neurodivergent mother navigating a dependency case in real time, asserting parental rights under IDEA, filing civil rights complaints, and building this organization simultaneously. Lived experience is not anecdote — it is data. It is standing. It is credibility.

Open your mind to this

If you care about civil liberties, you cannot stop at the first amendment. You must follow the thread — into family courts, into child welfare agencies, into the doctrine that says a government worker cannot be personally sued for violating your rights. Accountability is indivisible. You cannot pick which rights to defend.

Join the Work

We are building the accountability infrastructure this country refuses to provide. If you believe rights are real — help us defend them.