People search brokers

People-search sites are the loudest exposure for anyone on the job. They scrape your name, current and prior addresses, phone numbers, relatives, and roommates from public records, then sell the bundle to anyone with a credit card.

Spokeo, Whitepages, and TruePeopleSearch are the names you'll see most often when someone runs you. A protester, a sovereign-citizen type, or an ex of someone you arrested can pull your home address in under a minute. That's how a bad day at work follows you home to your kids.