Dallas Police Department

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

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

Spokeo, Whitepages, and TruePeopleSearch do most of the work. The Dallas Central Appraisal District publishes detailed property records — purchase price, lot size, plat — and the brokers scrape it directly. Cluster patterns of officers in Wylie, Frisco, Allen, Forney, Mesquite, and the mid-cities 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 confidential under the Public Information Act. §552.1175 extends similar protections to a longer list of public servants. File per agency.

The lever most DPD officers miss is Tax Code §25.025. File with the Dallas Central Appraisal District (and any other county appraisal district 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.

What still leaks

Three sources stay open for a DPD officer:

1. County court filings. Dallas County District Clerk publishes detailed dockets online. Civil suits, divorce, traffic — addresses appear in filings unless redacted at filing time.
2. Property records before §25.025 redaction. Anything published before you filed the election was already scraped. Re-running broker opt-outs after the redaction is critical.
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 family angle matters here

Dallas-area officers spread across multiple counties and concentrate in the same suburban pockets year after year. A spouse's workplace, a kid's school in Frisco ISD or Plano ISD, a parent's address in the same neighborhood — all reachable from a single Spokeo profile in five minutes.

What we do for DPD members

Continuous sweeping across every people-search site that matters, plus a re-check after any Dallas Central Appraisal District update. Re-listings handled — we re-check every two weeks and refile inside 24 hours when you reappear.

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