Louisville Metro Police Department

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

The profile looks the same for most LMPD officers. Full name. Current home address. Prior addresses going back years. Spouse, parents, and the approximate ages of your kids. Your vehicle. A property record from the Jefferson County Property Valuation Administrator, the county office that assesses property and posts ownership records online, or an Indiana parcel record from Floyd or Clark County if you live across the river.

Spokeo, Whitepages, and TruePeopleSearch do most of the work. The Jefferson County property office publishes detailed records online, and the surrounding county offices do the same. The brokers copy those records straight off the public sites. An officer living in Middletown, Fern Creek, Jeffersontown, Fairdale, Pleasure Ridge Park, Mt. Washington, Shepherdsville, La Grange, or across the Ohio River in New Albany or Jeffersonville shows up on a plain zip-code search.

What Kentucky law does, and where it stops

Kentucky's Open Records Act exempts records whose release would be a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy (KRS 61.878(1)(a)). State attorney general opinions have applied that exemption to public employees' home addresses and personal phone numbers. Once those fields are on file with the agency, the agency can withhold them from a public-records request.

That protection has a hard limit. It controls what a government agency hands out. It does nothing about the data brokers. Kentucky has no broker-removal statute and no state version of New Jersey's Daniel's Law, the law that lets covered officers there demand a data broker take down their home address and sue if the broker refuses. In Kentucky you have no comparable legal lever against the brokers themselves.

One federal law does apply. The Driver's Privacy Protection Act limits who can obtain the personal information in your driver's license and vehicle registration records from the DMV. It restricts DMV disclosure. It does not, on its own, pull your details off a people-search site.

What still leaks

Three sources stay open for an LMPD officer.

County property records. Jefferson County and the surrounding Kentucky counties, plus Floyd and Clark counties in Indiana, publish parcel and ownership data online. Brokers copy it directly.

Court records. Kentucky's CourtNet system and the Jefferson County courts publish case dockets. Home addresses can appear in civil, divorce, and traffic filings unless they were redacted when the case was filed.

Out-of-state brokers. Spokeo, Whitepages, BeenVerified, and similar sites are not Kentucky agencies and are not bound by the state's records exemptions. They pull from national aggregators.

Why the cross-river commute raises the stakes

LMPD is one of the metros where a real share of officers live outside the state they police. Southern Indiana suburbs put officers on Indiana property rolls in Floyd and Clark counties, so their exposure sits in two states' public records at once. A single broker profile can tie one home address to the people who live there: a spouse, kids, an aging parent nearby. That is how a name in a news story becomes a route to a home address.

When an officer is named in local coverage of an incident, that name feeds the same broker sources. New names get attached to the existing address and relative data.

The people living at that address run through the same removal work as the officer.

What we do for LMPD members

We scan the people-search sites we track and check the ones that publish Louisville-area records. When a property record updates in Jefferson County, the surrounding Kentucky counties, or the Indiana counties across the river, new listings can surface, so we keep checking rather than filing once and walking away. When a removed listing comes back, we file again.

We handle most of the process. When a site needs something only you can provide, like an ID for a specific removal, we tell you plainly.

If your division or River City Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 614 wants to offer this to members, talk to us.