Memphis Police Department

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

Run a scan on a Memphis PD officer and the profile looks the same nearly every time. Full name. Current address. Prior addresses going back to your academy days. Spouse, parents, and kids' approximate ages. Vehicle. The Shelby County Assessor record showing your parcel and what you paid.

Spokeo, Whitepages, and TruePeopleSearch do most of the work. The Shelby County Assessor of Property and the Register of Deeds publish property records online, and the brokers pull straight from that parcel data. Officers cluster in places like Bartlett, Cordova, Collierville, Germantown, Lakeland, and Arlington, plus across the state line in Olive Branch and Southaven, Mississippi. Those clusters are searchable by zip code.

What Tennessee law does for you

Tennessee Code Annotated §10-7-504 protects the personal information of law enforcement officers: residential address, home and personal cell phone, place of employment, and the names and work details of immediate family. A home address held by your agency as your employer is confidential under the statute, and releasing it can be charged as a misdemeanor. Corrections officers are covered too.

The rest of that personal information is not sealed automatically. Your chief law enforcement officer can redact it, and the statute sets a separate procedure when someone requests it for a professional or business purpose. What the shield controls is what state and local agencies hand out. It does nothing to a data broker.

Tennessee has no broker-removal statute. New Jersey's Daniel's Law lets covered officers sue a data broker that refuses to take down their home address; Tennessee gives you no equivalent. You have no direct legal lever against the brokers themselves.

Federal law covers one narrow slice. The Driver's Privacy Protection Act limits how your state DMV releases your vehicle and license records. It restricts the DMV, not the brokers, which source vehicle data elsewhere.

What still leaks

Even with the state shield in place, several sources stay open for an MPD officer:

1. County property records. Shelby County and the surrounding counties publish online, and so does DeSoto County, Mississippi for cross-state commuters. Brokers scrape them directly.
2. Court records. Shelby County General Sessions and Circuit Court post dockets online. Civil filings, divorce, 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 are not bound by Tennessee law. They pull from national aggregators that already hold your data.

Why the family angle matters here

Memphis sits right on the Mississippi line, and a real share of MPD officers commute in from across it. That commute pulls Mississippi property records into the same broker pipeline as the Shelby County data, so one profile can carry addresses in two states. Every address on it is a way to reach whoever lives there with you. They never signed up for the risk that rides along with your badge, but the record hands it to them anyway.

Local coverage tends to name officers involved in an incident. A name in the news is a name a broker can attach to a home address, and the household at that address goes through the same removal work you do.

What we do for MPD members

We monitor the people-search sites that matter for MPD officers and file removals when your information shows up. Property-record updates in Shelby County and DeSoto County are a common re-listing trigger, so we keep checking after those updates and re-file when you reappear. We handle most of the process and tell you clearly when a site needs something only you can provide.

Run agency-wide privacy enforcement for MPD at the precinct level and the workflow scales without each officer filing on their own.

If your precinct or the Memphis Police Association wants to offer this as a member benefit, talk to us.