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If your safe location has been compromised, contact the service managing your safety immediately. You may need to relocate.
Revealing Your Safe Location
Someone discovers and reveals the address of your refuge, shelter, safe house, or new home — putting you and potentially others at risk.
What You Might Notice
The other person references or appears near your safe location
They know where you're staying despite it being confidential.
You receive communications indicating your address is known
Messages referencing your current location.
What You Can Do
Contact your support service or refuge immediately
They can help assess the risk and arrange relocation if needed.
Contact police if there's an immediate safety threat
Call 000 if you're in danger.
Review how the location may have been discovered
Check devices for tracking, review social media for location clues, and consider whether anyone might have shared the information.
Important: This resource provides general information, not personal advice. Every situation is different. The actions suggested here may not be safe in your specific circumstances — particularly if the person causing harm could notice changes to your devices or accounts. Always consider your physical safety first.
If you need personalised support, contact 1800RESPECT (1800 737 732) or your local specialist domestic violence service. If you are in immediate danger, call 000.
Revealing the location of victim's shelter, safe house, refuge, or hidden address to the perpetrator or others. May involve sharing information publicly, telling mutual contacts, or using technology to discover and disclose the protected location, directly endangering victim's physical safety.
The TFA Matrix is a research framework under active development. Technique classifications, detection methods, and mitigations reflect current understanding and are subject to revision. This framework does not constitute forensic methodology, legal evidence standards, or clinical diagnostic criteria. Practitioners should apply professional judgement appropriate to their discipline and jurisdiction.