If you Googled Austin Johnson
Look at the
whole story.
If you are here because you Googled my name, welcome.
You may have found something about my past before you ever
found me.
Maybe it was a court record. Maybe an old article. Maybe an
accusation, charge, dispute, lawsuit, Family Court case, or
something else from one of the hardest periods of my life.
I am not building this website to erase any of that.
I am not trying to scrub Google, and I am not asking anybody
to pretend I have lived a perfect life.
A search result can show you a piece of my life.
It cannot show you all of me.
I Have a Past
There are things in my life I would do differently.
There are decisions I wish I could change. There are lessons
I learned the hard way. There are things I am proud of and
things I am not proud of.
I am not interested in presenting a cleaned-up version of my
life. I want the whole record.
Accountability Starts With Me Too
A major part of what I build today is centered around
accountability. I cannot demand accountability from companies,
courts, agencies, professionals, businesses, or other people
while believing I should never have to answer for my own
choices.
If I made a mistake, I should be able to say that. If something
written about me is wrong, I should be able to show the
evidence. If important context is missing, I should be able
to provide it.
My Family Court Story
One public case connected to my name is
Matter of Johnson v Pritchard.
My account is that the published appellate decision came after
years of fighting for a meaningful relationship with my
daughter while time continued to pass.
On October 3, 2025, the New York Supreme Court,
Appellate Division, Fourth Department issued its decision.
The court held that Family Court had improperly made counseling
a condition of visitation and improperly delegated to a
counselor the authority to decide when visitation would resume.
Read the official New York Courts decision →
The Years Matter
A Family Court case can be discussed in terms of petitions,
motions, orders, hearings, appeals, dates, and case numbers.
But a child is growing while all of that is happening.
Birthdays happen. Holidays happen. First days of school happen.
Voices change. Personalities change. Relationships change.
Memories that should have existed may never get created.
You cannot order childhood to start over later.
Federal Litigation
I am working on federal civil-rights litigation arising from
what I believe happened during this process.
That does not mean a federal court has already ruled that my
rights were violated. It has not.
Where a court has ruled, this website should show the ruling.
Where a document exists, show the document. Where something is
my personal account, say that it is my account. Where something
remains an allegation, call it an allegation unless and until a
court decides otherwise.
Do Not Take My Word for Everything
Do not automatically believe me because I wrote this website.
Do not automatically believe an old headline either.
Do not automatically believe a Google snippet.
Read deeper. Compare dates. Read the orders. Read the appellate
decision. Look at the documents. Look at what happened next.
Then make up your own mind.
HOOTSOTRAA
A lot of what I experienced changed how I see somebody else's
struggle. That is part of where HOOTSOTRAA comes from.
One of the simplest ways we describe it is:
We Don't Drive By. We Show Up.
When we encounter somebody stranded on the side of the road and
can safely help, the first question should not be how much money
we can make from their bad day.
Your struggle is not our payday.
Visit HOOTSOTRAA →
EmmaCraft
EmmaCraft came from another part of my life: family, separation,
memory, proof, connection, healing, and the understanding that
lost years with a child cannot simply be replaced later.
EmmaCraft is growing into family websites, memory archives,
Pathways to Connections, interactive worlds, the Forever Block,
apps, walkable digital environments, a 3D mall, and other tools
built around preserving human connection.
Visit EmmaCraft Foundation →
People Can Change
Saying “I've changed” is easy.
The harder questions are: What are you doing differently?
How do you treat people now? What did you learn? Can you admit
when you are wrong? Do your actions match what you claim?
That is the standard I want applied to me.
You May Still Not Like Me
That is okay.
This site does not exist to force anybody to like Austin
Johnson. You can read everything and still disagree with me.
I would rather somebody disagree after seeing the whole record
than agree with a fake version of me created for marketing.
The Internet Does Not Get the Final Word
Google can index my past. A court can record a chapter.
An article can preserve a moment. Somebody else can tell their
version.
I cannot control all of that, and I do not need to.
I can decide what I do tomorrow. I can decide whether my worst
experiences become excuses or lessons. I can decide whether I
keep driving past somebody who needs help. I can decide whether
I build something.
Read it. Question it. Check the documents.
Look at the work. Then make up your own mind.
Built From Heart. Forged From Hurt.
Some of what I build today exists because of things I wish had
never happened.
I cannot change that. What I can do is refuse to let the hurt
be the last thing those experiences create.
— Austin Johnson