Long Beach Police Department

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

Run a scan on any Long Beach officer. Same things show up: full name. Current address. Prior addresses back to academy. Spouse, parents, kids' approximate ages. Vehicle. The county recorder record showing the deed transfer.

Spokeo, Whitepages, and TruePeopleSearch do most of the work. LA County Recorder, Orange County Recorder, and Riverside County Recorder all publish online — and the brokers scrape them directly. Cluster patterns of officers in Lakewood, Cerritos, Cypress, Los Alamitos, Seal Beach, Huntington Beach, Yorba Linda, Corona, and Eastvale are visible from a zip-code search inside seconds.

What California law does for you

California Penal Code §6254.21 lets you file a written request with each agency that holds your records to keep your home address and phone out of any public-records release. Vehicle Code §1808.4 does the same with the DMV. Both are opt-in and per-agency. California Safe at Home is the state ACP for domestic-violence and stalking survivors — narrower path, most officers won't need it.

California does not have a broker-removal statute — no equivalent of New Jersey's Daniel's Law (the NJ law that lets covered officers sue data brokers for failing to remove their home address). The state shield doesn't reach the brokers themselves.

What still leaks

Three sources stay open for an LBPD officer:

1. County recorder records. LA, Orange, and Riverside all publish online. Brokers scrape every one. The §6254.21 election doesn't reach the recorder unless you file there separately.
2. Court records. LA Superior Court — Long Beach branch — and the surrounding county courts publish dockets. 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 California-specific protections. They source from out-of-state aggregators.

Why the family angle matters here

Long Beach officers spread across two big counties. Cost of living pushes a real share of the workforce east into Riverside County. A spouse's workplace, a kid's school in Long Beach USD or Los Alamitos USD, a parent's address one block over — all reachable from a single Spokeo profile in five minutes.

The local-media pattern of naming officers in coverage of any incident makes this worse. Every named-in-the-news officer is a name that lands on a broker page within hours of the article. The home address pulled from that profile is often miles outside the city.

The family gets swept on the same plan as the officer.

What we do for LBPD members

Continuous sweeping across the broker landscape. CCPA delete requests where the broker has a California presence. Standard opt-outs across the rest. Re-listings handled — we re-check every two weeks and refile inside 24 hours when you reappear. After any LA, Orange, or Riverside county recorder filing, we re-check inside 30 days.

If your division or the Long Beach Police Officers Association wants to offer this as a member benefit, reach out. We work with locals already.