Boise Police Department

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

Search any Boise officer on a people-search site and the same profile comes back: full name, current address, prior addresses going back years, spouse, parents, kids' approximate ages, your vehicle, and the Ada County Assessor record tied to your parcel.

Spokeo, Whitepages, and TruePeopleSearch do most of the work. The Ada and Canyon county assessors publish detailed property data online, including owner name, mailing address, and sale history, and people-search brokers routinely draw from public property records like these. Your registered plate is another thread: under the federal Driver's Privacy Protection Act, your DMV record is supposed to be restricted to a short list of permitted uses, but a plate that has already leaked can tie straight back to your address. A single zip-code search will group officers living in Meridian, Eagle, Star, Kuna, Nampa, Caldwell, or the Boise Bench.

What Idaho law does for you

Idaho's Public Records Act (Idaho Code §74-101 et seq.) starts from the assumption that government records are public. One provision cuts the other way for you. Idaho Code §74-106(30) exempts the residential street address and telephone number of an eligible law enforcement officer, and that officer's household members, from public-records release. The protection is not automatic. Under the statute and its cross-reference to Title 19, Chapters 58 and 62, you have to submit an application to the custodian of each record that holds your information; the exemption applies once you file, not before. Narrow exceptions still apply, such as a court order or your own written permission. This lever covers records held by government agencies, so file with, and confirm with, every agency that holds your file.

Idaho's Address Confidentiality Program (Idaho Code §19-5701 et seq.) is a separate tool. It lets victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, human trafficking, or malicious harassment use a substitute state address in place of their real one. Officers are not eligible just for being officers; the program is tied to those specific circumstances.

Idaho has no data-broker removal law. There is no state equivalent of New Jersey's Daniel's Law, which lets covered officers demand that data brokers take down their home address and sue if the brokers refuse. In Idaho, the broker opt-out process is your main lever for what people-search sites already show.

What still leaks

Even with the §74-106 exemption on your agency file, your information reaches broker pages through other doors:

1. County assessor records. Ada and Canyon both publish parcel data online, and brokers scrape it. The agency exemption does not reach the assessor; those records are handled separately with the assessor's office.
2. Court records. Idaho courts post filings through the iCourt portal. Civil cases, divorce, and traffic matters can show an address unless it was redacted when filed.
3. Out-of-state brokers. Spokeo, Whitepages, BeenVerified, and similar sites are not bound by Idaho's exemptions. They source their data from national aggregators.

New growth means new records

The Treasure Valley has grown fast for years. Every new deed and parcel record becomes a fresh public record, and brokers re-scrape county data on a regular cycle. An officer who bought a house in Meridian or Star a few years ago has likely had that address on broker pages ever since.

The exposure is not only about you. Your home address on a broker page is also the address of everyone who lives there. From one profile, someone can read off who shares your last name, tie a spouse to their own listing, and infer the makeup of the household. The same removal work covers the people under your roof, not just your own name.

What we do for Boise PD members

We scan the broker landscape continuously and file opt-outs across the major people-search sites. Removals do not always stick, so we keep checking and refile when your information reappears. Because the Ada and Canyon assessors are the fastest path back onto broker pages here, county updates are part of what we watch for. We handle most of the process and tell you clearly when a site needs something only you can provide.

If your district or the Boise Police Officers Association wants to offer this as a member benefit, reach out.