New York City Fire Department

If you work for FDNY, here's what brokers know about you

Run a scan on a firefighter, lieutenant, captain, EMT, or paramedic and the result looks the same. The same fields turn up every time: your full name, your current and prior addresses, your spouse and parents, the approximate ages of your kids, and the car you drive. Often a second address in the suburbs, pulled from voter registration.

Spokeo, Whitepages, and BeenVerified do most of the aggregation. VoterRecords republishes the New York voter file with your home address. ClustrMaps plots it on a map. None of these sites needs your permission to publish it.

EMS members are not spared. If you moonlight for a private ambulance company or a hospital system, that second employer can land on your broker profile next to your FDNY record, and so can the home address tied to both jobs.

What New York law does for you

New York has no Daniel's Law equivalent. Daniel's Law is a New Jersey statute that lets police, judges, and some other officials order data brokers to delete their home address and phone number. New York has not passed one, so nothing on the books lets a firefighter or EMT compel a broker to remove their information.

Two bills would change part of that, but neither is law. S9088 would require data brokers to register with the state Attorney General and build a single mechanism for consumers to request deletion. It was introduced in the 2025 to 2026 session and sits in committee. A separate bill, A513, would create the crime of doxxing a police officer, peace officer, or state officer, meaning publishing their personal information with intent to threaten or intimidate them. As written it covers those officers and their immediate families, not firefighters or EMTs. Confirm the current status of both before relying on either.

NY Civil Rights Law §50-a was repealed in 2020. It used to keep firefighter and officer personnel records confidential. The repeal opened disciplinary records to public-records requests, but the same 2020 law requires agencies to redact home addresses, personal phone numbers, and emails before releasing those records. So the repeal is not the main way your address reaches a broker.

New York Public Officers Law §87(2)(b) lets an agency withhold a record when releasing it would be an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy. It is discretionary, an agency chooses whether to use it, and it does nothing to a broker that already holds your information.

New York's Address Confidentiality Program (ACP) gives a substitute mailing address to victims of domestic violence, stalking, sexual assault, or human trafficking. FDNY members who qualify can enroll. It is a narrow path, and it does not remove what data brokers already hold.

What still leaks

Federal court records on PACER are not bound by New York law. If you have testified, been sued, or filed in federal court, that record is searchable.

The New York voter file lists your home address. Access is limited to registered voters, candidates, and committees, but sites like VoterRecords republish it in a form anyone can search.

Property records at the county level are open in all five boroughs and in the suburban counties where FDNY members live. A deed or a mortgage ties your name to your address in public record.

Department social media, union pages, and press coverage of fires and rescues name members directly. Once a name is public, people-search sites pick it up and attach it to a profile they already keep on you.

Why the family angle matters here

FDNY members concentrate in a handful of places: parts of Staten Island, the south shore of Long Island, Rockland, and Westchester. That concentration is easy to see on a broker's map view. Once someone finds your address, the same page lists who else lives there with you. Your home address is the thread that ties your family to your job. The point of removing your information is to cut that thread.

What we do for FDNY members

We scan the major people-search and data-broker sites for your information and file removal requests where you appear. Brokers repopulate from public records, so we keep checking and refile when you show up again. Some sites require a verification step from you; we tell you clearly when that happens and what it needs.

Run a free scan to see what is already public on you at /scan.

If your firehouse or battalion wants coverage for its members, firehouse-wide privacy coverage for FDNY members works across the department instead of one profile at a time.

If the UFA, the UFOA, or FDNY EMS Local 2507 wants to offer this as a member benefit, talk to us.