Memphis Police Department

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

Run a scan on any Memphis PD officer. Same things show up: full name. Current address. Prior addresses back to academy. Spouse, parents, kids' approximate ages. Vehicle. The Shelby County Assessor record with the parcel and what you paid.

Spokeo, Whitepages, and TruePeopleSearch do most of the work. The Shelby County Assessor of Property and Register of Deeds publish online — and brokers scrape directly from the parcel data. Cluster patterns of officers in Bartlett, Cordova, Collierville, Germantown, Lakeland, Arlington, and across the state line in Olive Branch and Southaven, MS are visible from a zip-code search inside seconds.

What Tennessee law does for you

Tennessee Code Annotated §10-7-504(a)(28) shields the home address, phone, and personal contact information of active and former law enforcement officers, plus judges, prosecutors, and corrections personnel. Once on file with the agency, those fields are exempt from public-records requests.

Tennessee 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 shield protects what state and local agencies disclose. It does not give you a legal lever against the brokers themselves.

What still leaks

Three sources stay open for an MPD officer:

1. County property records. Shelby County and the surrounding counties — plus DeSoto County, MS for cross-state commuters — all publish online. Brokers scrape them directly.
2. Court records. Shelby County General Sessions and Circuit Court publish dockets online. 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 Tennessee law. They source from out-of-state aggregators.

Why the family angle matters here

Memphis is one of the few major departments where a real share of officers live across a state line. That cross-state commute pulls Mississippi property records into the broker pipeline alongside the Shelby County data. A spouse's workplace, a kid's school in Collierville or Olive Branch, a parent's address two streets over — all reachable from a single Spokeo profile in five minutes.

The local pattern of naming officers in news coverage of any incident makes this worse. Every named-in-the-news officer is a name that lands on a broker page within hours.

The family runs through the same removal queue as the officer.

What we do for MPD members

We sweep all 200+ people-search sites we track, plus a re-check after any Shelby County or DeSoto County property record update. Re-listings handled — we re-check every two weeks and refile inside 24 hours when you reappear.

If your precinct or the Memphis Police Association wants to offer this as a member benefit, reach out. We work with locals already.