Denver Police Department

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

The data trail on any Denver officer looks the same. Name and current address. Every prior address back to academy. Spouse, parents, kids' approximate ages. Vehicle. The county assessor record showing where you live.

Spokeo, Whitepages, and TruePeopleSearch do most of the work. Denver, Adams, Arapahoe, Jefferson, Douglas, and Weld county assessors all publish detailed online property data — owner name, mailing address, sale history — and the brokers scrape it directly. Cluster patterns of officers in Thornton, Northglenn, Aurora, Centennial, Parker, Castle Rock, Lakewood, Arvada, and Brighton are visible from a zip-code search inside seconds.

What Colorado law does for you

Colorado Revised Statutes §24-72-204(2)(a)(VII) and related provisions exempt the personal information of sworn officers — home address, telephone, family information — from public-records release once filed with the agency. Colorado expanded its sworn-personnel privacy protections in 2023, broadening what counties have to redact when an officer files the request.

Colorado Revised Statutes §18-13-131 is the 2022 anti-doxxing statute. It creates criminal liability for sharing personal information of first responders or other protected categories online when doing so poses an imminent and serious threat. An early conviction came in 2024 in a Denver case involving a livestream reveal of a commander's home address. Full background at /incidents/denver-police-commander-doxxing-2024.

The criminal statute reaches the act of doxxing. It does not reach back and remove the underlying broker data.

What still leaks

Three sources stay open for a DPD officer:

1. County assessor records. Denver and the surrounding counties publish online. Brokers scrape them. The §24-72-204 election doesn't reach the assessor unless you file there separately.
2. Court records. Colorado courts publish through CoCourts. Civil filings, divorce, traffic — addresses appear unless redacted at filing time.
3. Out-of-state brokers. Spokeo, Whitepages, BeenVerified, and the rest don't honor Colorado law. They source from out-of-state aggregators.

Why the family angle matters here

The Denver commander case is what makes the pattern concrete here. The address the activist's followers found was reachable through public-records and broker channels — the same channels that hold every DPD officer's address one search away. The criminal conviction is after-the-fact. The data was on the page before the livestream.

A spouse's workplace, a kid's school in Cherry Creek or Douglas County, a parent's address one block away — all reachable from a single Spokeo profile in five minutes.

What we do for DPD members

Continuous sweeping across the broker landscape. Standard opt-outs across the people-search sites. Re-listings handled — we re-check every two weeks and refile inside 24 hours when you reappear. After any county assessor record update, we re-check inside 30 days.

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