Dallas Police Department

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

Run a scan on a Dallas officer and the same records come up. Full name, current address, prior addresses going back to the academy, a spouse and relatives, and the county appraisal record tying your name to the property. Spokeo, Whitepages, and TruePeopleSearch carry most of it.

The Dallas Central Appraisal District publishes property records online, including the owner name, address, and appraised value. Brokers pull from that source directly. DPD officers cluster in the same suburbs year after year, so a single zip-code search returns a recognizable group.

What Texas law does for you

Two Texas statutes keep an officer's home information out of public agency records.

Government Code §552.117 and §552.1175: these keep a current or honorably retired peace officer's home address, home phone, emergency contact, and family information confidential when someone requests records from your agency. For many peace officers the protection is automatic. Some covered roles have to file a form with the agency to turn it on.

Tax Code §25.025: this is the one most officers miss. File the request-for-confidentiality form (Comptroller Form 50-284) with the Dallas Central Appraisal District, and any other county district where you own property. Your home address is then withheld from the public appraisal roll, the tax record, and the online property search. Current and former peace officers, their spouses, and adult children qualify, and the choice stays in effect until you rescind it in writing.

The federal Driver's Privacy Protection Act limits when a state DMV can release the name, address, and phone number from your motor vehicle record, with a set of specific exceptions.

Texas also runs an Address Confidentiality Program that gives you a substitute mailing address. It is built for victims of stalking, family violence, sexual assault, or trafficking, so it fits an officer who is being stalked, not every officer.

What still leaks

Even with those confidentiality requests filed, several sources stay open:

1. County court filings: the Dallas County District Clerk publishes civil, family, and traffic dockets online. Addresses appear in filings unless they were redacted when the case was filed.
2. Records published before you filed: anything the appraisal district or county posted before your §25.025 request was already copied by brokers. Re-running opt-outs after the redaction takes effect matters.
3. Out-of-state brokers: Texas confidentiality laws bind Texas agencies, not national people-search sites. Brokers like BeenVerified source from out-of-state aggregators and keep publishing.

Why your family shows up too

A people-search profile does not end at your name. It links your home address to the people who share it: a spouse, a parent nearby, a kid old enough to have a listing of their own. Anyone trying to reach you can start with any of them. Taking your address offline closes that path.

What we do for DPD members

We scan the people-search sites that publish this information, file the removals, and keep checking, including after Dallas Central Appraisal District updates that tend to trigger new listings. When a record comes back, we find it and file again. We handle most of the process and tell you clearly when a site needs something from you.

Departments and associations can cover their whole roster through the plan for departments instead of one-off cleanups.

If your division or the Dallas Police Association wants to offer this as a member benefit, talk to us.