Bexar County Sheriff's Office

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

Run a scan on a Bexar County deputy and the same pattern comes back: full name, current address, past addresses, spouse, parents, kids' ages, and vehicle. Next to it sits the Bexar Appraisal District record showing the parcel, what you paid, and the year you bought.

Spokeo, Whitepages, and TruePeopleSearch do most of the work. The Bexar Appraisal District publishes parcel-level property data online, including owner name, mailing address, and market value, and the brokers pull it straight from there. Deputies tend to live in the suburban communities ringing San Antonio rather than downtown. Because brokers index by location, not by employer, that footprint overlaps with San Antonio PD suburbs.

What Texas law does for you

Two Texas laws help here, and neither one takes you off broker sites by itself.

Government Code §552.117 makes a current or retired peace officer's home address, home phone, emergency contact, and family information confidential in records your agency holds. For peace officers, that protection applies automatically. Section 552.1175 is the opt-in version, covering a longer list of officials who file a written request with each agency that holds their records; the choice stays in effect until you rescind it in writing.

The lever most deputies miss sits in the Tax Code. Section 25.025 lets a current or former peace officer, and a spouse, file a form with the Bexar Appraisal District to keep the home address out of the public appraisal and tax records. The Texas Address Confidentiality Program is a separate path, meant for people relocating to get away from family violence, stalking, or sexual assault. The federal Lieu Act covers only federal judges and their families, not county deputies, so it does not reach BCSO personnel.

What still leaks

Even after you file, three sources stay open:

1. Bexar County court records. The District Clerk publishes civil and criminal dockets online. Civil suits, divorce filings, and traffic cases can carry your address unless it was redacted when the case was filed.
2. Appraisal data captured before you filed. Anything public before your §25.025 request was likely already scraped. Re-running broker opt-outs after you file is what closes that gap.
3. Out-of-state brokers. Spokeo, Whitepages, BeenVerified, and the rest are not bound by Texas public-records law. They pull from national aggregators.

What this means for your household

Many deputies live in the smaller communities ringing San Antonio, outside Loop 1604. When a broker ties your name to that address, it ties everyone under your roof to it too. The same listing can name a spouse, point to the school district your kids attend, and flag relatives nearby who share your last name. None of them chose the risk that rides along with your job, and they all land on the same page.

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

What we do for BCSO members

We scan the people-search sites that carry deputies, file removals where you show up, and keep checking, including after Bexar Appraisal District updates, since a fresh appraisal record is a common way an address comes back in Texas. When you reappear, we file again. If a site needs something only you can provide, we tell you exactly what and why.

Run a free scan to see what's exposed on your name.

If your association or patrol district wants to offer this to members, talk to us.