Long Beach Police Department

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

Run a scan on almost any Long Beach officer and the same fields come back: full name, current address, prior addresses going back to the academy, a spouse, parents, the approximate ages of kids, a vehicle, and the county recorder record showing when you bought the house.

Spokeo, Whitepages, and TruePeopleSearch do most of the work. The LA, Orange, and Riverside county recorders all publish online, and the brokers scrape them directly. A single zip-code search can cluster officers living in Lakewood, Cerritos, Cypress, Los Alamitos, Seal Beach, Huntington Beach, Yorba Linda, Corona, and Eastvale within seconds.

What California law does for you

California gives officers a few real tools. None of them reaches every broker.

Government Code §6254.21: a peace officer can send a written demand to any person or business posting your home address or phone number online, and the recipient has to take it down within 48 hours. Your bargaining representative can send that demand on your behalf. The section was renumbered in a 2023 recodification of the Public Records Act, but the right itself did not change. It also bars government agencies from posting your home address online without your permission.

Vehicle Code §1808.4: this keeps your home address confidential in DMV records. You file a Request for Confidentiality of Home Address (form INV 32) through your agency for your license and each registered vehicle.

DPPA: the federal Driver's Privacy Protection Act limits who can pull the personal information in your DMV and vehicle-registration records and for what reasons. It governs the DMV data itself, not the people-search listings brokers build from other sources.

California Safe at Home is the state's address confidentiality program for survivors of domestic violence, stalking, and similar threats. It is a narrower path, and most officers won't qualify for it or need it.

What California doesn't have is an equivalent to New Jersey's Daniel's Law, the law that lets covered officers sue a data broker for money when it fails to remove their home address after a request. The §6254.21 demand right exists, but it carries no comparable lawsuit for damages, and out-of-state brokers routinely ignore it.

What still leaks

Even with those filings in place, three sources stay open:

1. County recorder records. LA, Orange, and Riverside counties all publish property records online, and brokers scrape them. A DMV or agency confidentiality election doesn't reach the recorder. To restrict what the recorder shows, you have to deal with the recorder separately.
2. Court records. The LA Superior Court Long Beach branch and the surrounding county courts publish dockets. Civil suits, divorce filings, and traffic matters can show an address unless it was redacted when the case was filed.
3. Out-of-state brokers. Spokeo, Whitepages, BeenVerified, and the rest operate outside California's agency rules and pull from national aggregators. A California demand letter reaches them slowly, if at all.

What this means for your family

A broker profile isn't only about you. The home address it lists is the same address your spouse, your kids, and anyone else under your roof share. Pull the profile and you've pulled the whole household.

Long Beach officers rarely live where they work. Cost of living pushes much of the workforce east and south into Orange and Riverside counties, so the address on a Spokeo page often sits well outside the city and outside LBPD's reach. The county recorder in whichever county you bought your home ties the deed to your name, and the brokers copy it.

Local coverage makes it sharper. When an officer is named in a news story, that name lands on broker pages soon after, and the home address attached to it points a stranger straight to the people who live with you.

What we do for LBPD members

We scan the broker landscape continuously. We file CCPA deletion requests where a broker has a California footprint, and standard opt-outs everywhere else. CCPA is the California Consumer Privacy Act, which lets California residents ask a business to delete the personal information it holds.

When you reappear, we catch it and refile. We keep checking, including after a new deed or filing at the LA, Orange, or Riverside county recorder puts your address back in circulation. We handle most of the process and tell you clearly when a site needs something only you can provide.

See what's exposed on your name. If your division or the Long Beach Police Officers Association wants to offer this as a member benefit, reach out.