Cincinnati Police Department

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

Run a scan on any Cincinnati officer and the same pattern comes up: name, current address, prior addresses, spouse, parents, kids' ages, and vehicle. Add the Hamilton County Auditor record that shows where you live.

Spokeo, Whitepages, and TruePeopleSearch do most of the work. The Hamilton County Auditor publishes parcel-level property data online: owner name, mailing address, and sale history. Butler, Warren, and Clermont counties run similar systems. Across the river, the Kentucky property valuation administrator (PVA) sites for Boone, Kenton, and Campbell counties publish their own property data. Brokers scrape all of it. Search the metro's commuter suburbs and the same broker profiles come up: Anderson Township, Mason, West Chester, Loveland, and Milford on the Ohio side, Independence and Florence across the river.

What Ohio law does for you

Ohio Revised Code §149.43 keeps a peace officer's home address and family information out of records that agencies release to the public. The statute treats you as a "designated public service worker," and that information sits outside the definition of a public record. The protection runs through the agency that holds the record, so you file with each agency that has your data.

Ohio has no broker-removal statute. There is no equivalent of New Jersey's Daniel's Law, the New Jersey law that lets covered officers sue a data broker that fails to take their home address down after a request. Ohio also has no statewide Address Confidentiality Program for sworn officers. The §149.43 shield does not reach the county auditors on its own. Property-record redactions have to be filed with each county, and the Kentucky parcels need separate filings under Kentucky law.

Your vehicle record feeds these profiles too. The federal Driver's Privacy Protection Act limits how state motor-vehicle agencies release personal information from driver and registration records, but it does not force a broker that already holds the data to delete it.

What still leaks

Several sources stay open for a Cincinnati officer:

1. County auditor and PVA records. Hamilton, Butler, Warren, and Clermont on the Ohio side, plus Boone, Kenton, and Campbell across the river, all publish online. Brokers scrape them.
2. Court records. Hamilton County Common Pleas and Cincinnati Municipal Court publish dockets online. Civil filings, divorce cases, and traffic matters can show an address unless it was redacted when the case was filed.
3. The journalist request. Ohio's own law carves out an exception. Under §149.43(B)(9), a journalist can request an officer's home address in writing by stating that disclosure is in the public interest. The shield is not absolute.
4. Out-of-state brokers. Spokeo, Whitepages, BeenVerified, and the rest are not bound by Ohio or Kentucky law. They pull from out-of-state aggregators.

Why the bi-state commute matters here

The Cincinnati metro spans two states and the federal river boundary. CPD officers commute across the Ohio River from Northern Kentucky in real numbers. An Ohio §149.43 filing does nothing for a parcel record in Boone County, and a Kentucky redaction does nothing for the Hamilton County Auditor record. You need filings on both sides, and you need broker removals that do not care which state an address came from.

Your family is in the same records

Your exposure is not only yours. A broker profile is a map of the people connected to you, and it does not stop at your front door. It reaches the relatives who share your name and the addresses tied to them. In a two-state metro that reach widens, because a spouse or a parent can turn up under Ohio records, Kentucky records, or both. Your home and the people in it are not public property, and a removal plan has to cover them. The household goes on the same plan as the officer.

What we do for CPD members

We scan the people-search sites we track, file removals against the ones that list you, and confirm when the data comes down. Broker sites relist people, so we keep checking and refile when you reappear. When county auditor or Kentucky PVA records change, that can put you back in front of the scrapers, so we watch for that too. We handle most of the process and tell you clearly when a site needs something only you can provide.

If your district or the Cincinnati Fraternal Order of Police Queen City Lodge 69 wants to offer this as a member benefit, talk to us. Other Ohio members can read the Columbus PD page and Cleveland PD page for the same statutory picture.

Run a free scan to see what's exposed for your address.