Denver Police Department

What brokers know about a Denver officer

Pull up any Denver officer on a people-search site and the profile is roughly the same. Full name and current home address. Prior addresses going back to the academy years. Spouse, parents, and the approximate ages of your kids. Registered vehicles. The county assessor record that ties your name to the house.

Spokeo, Whitepages, and TruePeopleSearch do most of the assembling. Denver, Adams, Arapahoe, Jefferson, Douglas, and Weld county assessors publish property data online: owner name, mailing address, and sale history. Brokers scrape those records directly. When a run of officers lives in Thornton, Northglenn, Aurora, Centennial, Parker, Castle Rock, Lakewood, Arvada, or Brighton, a single zip-code search surfaces them together.

What Colorado law does, and where it stops

Colorado gives peace officers two tools, and both have limits.

First, you can ask government agencies to remove your personal information, including your home address, from public records posted online. It is a request-based process. The protection applies once you file, and it binds government records, not private brokers.

Second, Colorado Revised Statutes 18-9-313 makes it a crime to knowingly post a protected person's personal information online when doing so poses an imminent and serious threat to that person or their family. Peace officers and firefighters are covered protected persons. The first conviction under that statute came in 2026, in a Denver case built on a livestream that broadcast a police commander's home address. Full background at /incidents/denver-police-commander-doxxing-2025.

The criminal statute punishes the act of doxxing after it happens. It does not reach back and pull the underlying address off the broker pages.

What still leaks

These sources stay open for a Denver officer, even after you file:

1. County assessor records. Denver and the surrounding counties publish property data online, and brokers scrape it. The public-records removal request does not reach the assessor unless you file with that office too.
2. Court records. Colorado court records are available online. Addresses in civil, divorce, and traffic filings show up unless they were redacted when the case was filed.
3. Out-of-state brokers. Spokeo, Whitepages, BeenVerified, and the rest are not bound by Colorado's removal process. They pull from national aggregators outside the state's reach.

Why this reaches your family

The address on a broker page is not only your problem. The same record lists the people who live in the house with you, and often relatives nearby. Your registered plate is one more thread: under the federal Driver's Privacy Protection Act your DMV record is supposed to be restricted, but a plate that has already leaked can tie straight back to the same address.

The Denver commander case shows how that plays out. Followers found the commander's home address through ordinary public channels, and it went out on a livestream. The conviction came later. The address was on the page before anyone said it out loud, and the same channels hold every Denver officer's address the same way.

What we do for Denver officers

We scan the broker landscape for your information and file opt-outs across the people-search sites. Brokers relist, so we keep checking and refile when your profile comes back. We handle most of the process and tell you clearly when a site needs something only you can provide.

Run a free scan to see what is already public on you. If your district or the Denver Police Protective Association wants to offer this to members, talk to us.