Fort Worth Police Department

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

Run a scan on a Fort Worth officer and the same details come up. Full name. Current address. Prior addresses back to the academy. Spouse, parents, and kids' approximate ages. Vehicle. The Tarrant Appraisal District record showing when you bought the house and what you paid.

Spokeo, Whitepages, and TruePeopleSearch do most of the work. Tarrant Appraisal District publishes parcel-level property data online: owner name, mailing address, and market value. Brokers pull it straight from there. Officers who live west and south of the city, out toward Aledo, Burleson, Crowley, Cleburne, Weatherford, Azle, and Granbury, show up in the same searches. That spread separates FWPD from Dallas PD officers, who concentrate north and east.

What Texas law does for you

Texas gives agencies strong tools to withhold officer information, but it has no statute that forces data brokers to remove your home address. Two laws matter most for a Fort Worth officer.

Government Code §552.117 and §552.1175: these keep your home address, home phone, emergency contact, and family information out of records an agency releases under the Public Information Act. For current and honorably retired peace officers, the agency must withhold that information. §552.1175 covers a broader list of public servants. Both control what your agency hands out. Neither reaches the data brokers.

Tax Code §25.025: this is the one most Fort Worth officers miss. File a request with Tarrant Appraisal District, plus any other county where you own property, and your home address is kept confidential in the appraisal roll, the tax record, and the online property search. Current and former peace officers, their spouses, and their adult children qualify. This is a form you submit to the appraisal district yourself. It is worth doing.

The federal Driver's Privacy Protection Act limits when a state DMV can release the name, address, and phone number tied to your license and vehicle registration. That is the law behind the "Vehicle" detail brokers list, though it does not force brokers to drop what they already pulled.

The Texas Address Confidentiality Program is a separate path for people relocating to escape domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, or human trafficking. It gives you a substitute address to use in public records.

What still leaks

Even after those filings, a few sources stay open.

1. Court records. The Tarrant County District Clerk publishes civil and criminal case records online. Addresses in a lawsuit, divorce, or traffic case can appear unless they were redacted when the case was filed.
2. Data captured before your §25.025 filing. Anything published online before you filed was already copied by the brokers. Re-running the opt-outs after your address is made confidential is what closes that gap.
3. Out-of-state brokers. Spokeo, Whitepages, BeenVerified, and the rest are not bound by Texas confidentiality law. They source from national aggregators.

Why the family angle matters here

A people-search profile does not stop at you. Your home address on one of these sites also lists the people tied to that address: a spouse, a parent, an adult child still on the lease. In the smaller towns west and south of Fort Worth, where several officers may share a subdivision, one address search can map a household and its neighbors. Taking your address off these sites removes the easiest path from your name to your family.

What we do for FWPD members

We scan the people-search sites that publish this information, file removal requests, and keep checking for records that come back. A Tarrant Appraisal District update is a common way a Texas officer reappears, so it is one of the sources we watch. We handle most of the process and tell you clearly when a site needs something from you.

If your division or the Fort Worth Police Officers Association wants to offer this to members, talk to us.