Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office

What brokers know about a Miami-Dade deputy

The Miami-Dade Police Department became the Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office on January 7, 2025. The rename did not change what brokers publish about its deputies.

Pull any Miami-Dade deputy up on a people-search site and the profile looks the same: full name, current home address, past addresses going back years, spouse and relatives, the approximate ages of your kids, and your vehicle. Most profiles also link straight to the Miami-Dade Property Appraiser parcel for your home.

Spokeo, Whitepages, and TruePeopleSearch do most of the work. The Miami-Dade Property Appraiser publishes property records online, including purchase price, parcel data, and ownership history. Brokers scrape those records directly. A search on your name and city returns the profile.

Deputies concentrate in suburbs like Pinecrest, Palmetto Bay, Cutler Bay, Doral, and Miami Lakes, and across the county line into Pembroke Pines and Miramar. A residential address in any of them ties back to the people living there.

Run a free scan to see which sites list your address.

What Florida law does for you

Florida Statute 119.071(4)(d) makes the home address, phone number, date of birth, photograph, and the names and schools of your children exempt from public records. It covers active and former sworn law enforcement, firefighters, judges, prosecutors, and other public servants. You or your agency has to file a written request with each agency that holds your records before those fields go confidential.

The Miami-Dade Property Appraiser takes a separate exemption request. Since a 2021 change to Florida law, the appraiser redacts the protected owner's name and the deed book and page reference rather than the address itself. File the request with the appraiser's office, and confirm the current scope of what gets redacted before you rely on it. Many deputies never file it at all.

Florida's Marsy's Law gives crime victims the right to withhold information that could be used to locate or harass them. In November 2023, the Florida Supreme Court ruled it does not hide a victim's name, including a police officer's. Treat it as protection for locating details, not for your identity.

A newer Florida statute closes part of that gap. CS/HB 1113 (Chapter 2026-32) took effect July 1, 2026. If you are assaulted or threatened on the job, it keeps your identity confidential for 72 hours and exempt from public-records release for 60 days. It applies when a deputy is a genuine victim, not automatically in every use-of-force case, and courts are still working out where that line falls. Confirm current practice with your agency's records custodian.

One more law works in the background. The federal Driver's Privacy Protection Act (DPPA) limits who can pull the personal information in your Florida DMV and vehicle-registration records, and lets you sue for at least $2,500 if a broker obtained it without a permitted purpose. It does not take a listing down on its own. We do not file DPPA suits, but the address and vehicle details those records feed are exactly what we remove from the broker sites.

What still leaks

Filing the exemptions helps, but three sources stay open for a Miami-Dade deputy.

1. Property records scraped before you filed. Anything the Property Appraiser published before your exemption was already copied by brokers. Filing the exemption does not pull those old copies down, so the broker opt-outs still have to be run.
2. Court records. The Miami-Dade Clerk of the Courts publishes case dockets online. Civil suits, divorce, and traffic cases can show your address unless it was redacted at filing.
3. Out-of-state brokers. Spokeo, Whitepages, BeenVerified, and similar sites are based outside Florida and pull from national aggregators. Florida's exemption does not bind them. Each one needs its own opt-out.

Why the family angle matters here

Your home address does more than point to you. It points to everyone who lives there. A deputy's parcel record and people-search profile also name a spouse, list relatives nearby, and give the ages of the children in the house.

Someone carrying a grievance from an arrest or a scene does not need your work address. The home address is enough to reach your family. Removing the listings that publish it is how you keep that door shut.

What we do for Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office members

We scan the people-search sites we track, find the listings that carry your name and address, and file the removals. Because the Property Appraiser is the fastest way for a Florida listing to come back, we keep checking after property records update and re-file when you reappear. We handle most of the process and tell you clearly when a site needs something from you, like an ID to verify a request.

If individual deputies can't keep up with the opt-outs on their own, sheriff's-office privacy coverage for deputies and their families puts the agency on that path. If your district or the Police Benevolent Association wants to offer this as a member benefit, talk to us.