Austin Police Department

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

Run a scan on any Austin officer. Same things show up: full name. Current address. Prior addresses back to academy. Spouse, parents, kids' approximate ages. Vehicle. The appraisal-district record showing when you bought the house and what you paid.

Spokeo, Whitepages, and TruePeopleSearch do most of the work. Travis Central Appraisal District and Williamson, Hays, and Bastrop CADs all publish parcel-level property data online — the brokers scrape it directly. Cluster patterns of officers in Pflugerville, Round Rock, Cedar Park, Leander, Hutto, Buda, Kyle, and Manor are visible from a zip-code search inside seconds.

What Texas law does for you

Texas Government Code §552.117 lets you elect, in writing, to keep your home address, home phone, emergency contact, and family information out of any record an agency releases under the Public Information Act. §552.1175 covers a longer list of public servants. File per agency.

The lever most APD officers miss is Tax Code §25.025. File with Travis CAD (and any other county where you own property) and your home address gets redacted from the appraisal roll, the tax record, and the online property search. Active, retired, and spouses qualify. There's also the Texas Address Confidentiality Program for officers in domestic-violence situations — a narrower program most won't need.

What still leaks

Three sources stay open for an APD officer:

1. Court records. Travis County District Clerk and the surrounding county clerks publish detailed civil and criminal dockets online. Civil suits, divorce, traffic — addresses appear unless redacted at filing time.
2. Appraisal data published before §25.025 redaction. Anything online before you filed was already scraped. Re-running broker opt-outs after the redaction is what closes the loop.
3. Out-of-state brokers. Spokeo, Whitepages, BeenVerified, and the rest don't honor Texas law. They source from out-of-state aggregators.

Why the state-capital angle matters here

Austin's combination of state-capital protests, viral social-media activity, and a media corps that names officers in incident coverage makes the broker-page exposure worse here than in most Texas cities. Every named-in-the-news officer lands on a Spokeo profile within hours of the article. One incident can put a single name and address in front of a much larger audience than the article ever reached.

A spouse's workplace, a kid's school in Round Rock ISD or Leander ISD, a parent's address two streets over — all reachable from a single Spokeo profile in five minutes.

The family runs through the same removal queue as the officer.

What we do for APD members

Continuous sweeping across the broker landscape, plus a re-check after any Travis CAD or surrounding-county appraisal update because that's the fastest re-list path in Texas. Re-listings handled — we re-check every two weeks and refile inside 24 hours when you reappear.

If your sector or the Austin Police Association wants to offer this as a member benefit, reach out. We work with locals already.