FBI New York Field Office

If you work for the FBI New York Field Office, here's what brokers know about you

The New York Field Office is the FBI's largest, counting more than 2,000 special agents, professional staff, and task force members combined. Run a scan on an FBI special agent assigned to New York and the same fields come back: full name, current home address, prior addresses going back years, spouse, parents, the approximate ages of children, and vehicle records. Old duty-station addresses show up too, pulled from change-of-address records.

Consumer people-search sites like Spokeo, Whitepages, and BeenVerified carry the family-facing version: name, address, relatives. The harder exposure sits with the investigative-tier brokers. Pipl aggregates social accounts, email addresses, and decades of address history. LexisNexis Risk Solutions and TransUnion TLOxp are subscription tools that licensed investigators, skip tracers, and insurance investigators can pull a full report from. That pipeline runs deeper than the consumer sites and is harder to shut down.

New York commute patterns widen the exposure. Agents who live in Westchester, Rockland, Long Island, or New Jersey leave property records across several county recorders, each with its own level of online exposure.

What federal and state law does for you

Two pieces of federal law matter here, and neither gives you a right to make a broker remove your information.

18 U.S.C. §119 is the federal criminal doxxing statute. It makes it a federal crime to publish a covered person's home address or other restricted personal information with intent to threaten them or help someone commit violence against them. FBI officers and employees are covered persons under this statute, through its cross-reference to 18 U.S.C. §1114, which names FBI personnel by role. But §119 is a criminal deterrent that punishes an attacker after the fact. It does not let you demand that a data broker take a listing down.

The removal right went to judges, not agents. The Daniel Anderl Judicial Security and Privacy Act lets federal judges demand that data brokers and government agencies remove their personal information, and sue a broker that refuses. It became law in 2022, after the son of US District Judge Esther Salas was killed by a man who found the family's home address online. It covers federal judges and their families. It does not cover FBI special agents.

A pending bill, the Protecting Law Enforcement from Doxxing Act (H.R. 5118 and S. 1952), would add a federal crime for releasing a federal law enforcement officer's name with intent to obstruct an investigation. It was introduced in 2025 and referred to committee. Like §119, it is a criminal prohibition rather than a removal right, and it is not yet law. Confirm its current status before relying on it.

State address confidentiality programs do not fill the gap either. New York's Address Confidentiality Program is built for victims of domestic violence, stalking, sexual offenses, human trafficking, and kidnapping who relocate for safety; it gives them a substitute mailing address to use in government records. An FBI agent cannot enroll based on the job alone. These programs also do not reach data brokers directly. They shield an address in state and local records, not in a Spokeo profile.

What still leaks

Even with continuous removal work, some of the exposure is structural and hard to fully close:

1. Investigative-tier brokers. LexisNexis Risk Solutions, TransUnion TLOxp, and Pipl sell to professional users. Their opt-out and suppression paths for federal law enforcement depend on agency processes and are applied unevenly.
2. Property records across the commute zone. We are not aware of a state deed-redaction law that reaches federal agents. Buying a house in Westchester or Bergen County publishes the deed in the public county record.
3. Old accounts and old addresses. Pipl is built to surface exactly this: an old email, a dormant social account, an academy-era address. Removing the current listing does not always clear the historical trail.

How this reaches your family

Federal agents are being targeted through this kind of information. In early 2026, identifying documents were stolen from FBI agents' vehicles during unrest in Minneapolis, and federal prosecutors later charged people who used that information to threaten agents. As many as 15 FBI agents and employees were harassed afterward. Separately, a doxxing site known as ICE List published names, work emails, phone numbers, and job titles of roughly 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees. FBI agents sit on the same target list, with less removal-specific law behind them.

A broker profile does not stop at you. The same record that lists your home address also names who else lives behind it: the person you married, a college-age kid who still gets mail there, the parent whose emergency contact is you. Relatives are a standard, cross-linked field on these sites. Someone who starts with your name can move to a spouse's name, and from there to a separate address, with no special access. The home you share with your family is the anchor that connects all of it. That is why removal has to cover the household, not just the agent.

What we do for FBI New York members

We scan both the consumer people-search sites and the investigative-tier brokers, then file removals across both. Standard opt-outs at Spokeo, Whitepages, BeenVerified, and similar sites. Suppression requests at LexisNexis Risk Solutions, TransUnion TLOxp, and Pipl through the federal law enforcement paths those vendors maintain. Those require specific paperwork; we handle that part and tell you clearly if a site needs something only you can provide. Where California law applies, we file requests to delete personal information. Brokers tend to repost information after a takedown, so we keep checking and re-file when a listing comes back. Coverage includes your household, not just you.

If your field office or agents association wants this as a benefit for agents and analysts in New York, talk to us.