New Orleans Police Department

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

The data trail on an NOPD officer is predictable. Your name and current address. Prior addresses going back years. Your spouse, your parents, and your kids' approximate ages. Your vehicle. A parcel record showing where you actually live, usually pulled from the Orleans Parish Assessor or an assessor in one of the surrounding parishes.

Spokeo, Whitepages, and TruePeopleSearch do most of the work. Parish assessors across the region publish parcel data online, and the brokers scrape it directly. A single zip-code search can surface clusters of officers in Algiers, Lakeview, and Gentilly, across the parish line in Metairie, Kenner, Marrero, and Harvey, and across Lake Pontchartrain in Slidell, Mandeville, and Covington.

What Louisiana law does for you

Louisiana keeps some of your personal information out of what a public agency releases. Under La. R.S. 44:11, a public employee's home address, personal phone number, and personal email address are confidential in personnel records. That covers police, fire, EMS, and other public employees. La. R.S. 44:3 keeps law enforcement investigative and intelligence records confidential, including information that would reveal an undercover officer's identity. Both rules bind the agency that holds the records, not the brokers, so neither is a request we file for you.

Separately, the federal Driver's Privacy Protection Act limits when a state DMV can release the personal information in your driver and vehicle records. Like the state rules, it constrains a government source, not the brokers we work. It sits in the background of what we do.

Louisiana added a new lever in 2026. HB 339, now La. R.S. 44:11.2, was signed on May 29 and takes effect August 1, 2026. It names current law enforcement officers as protected persons. They can demand that a government body take down their personal information posted online, such as on a parish assessor page. You use that right yourself; the state runs the process.

Here is the gap that remains. That law reaches government bodies, not data brokers. Louisiana still has no broker-removal statute and no state equivalent of New Jersey's Daniel's Law, which lets covered officers demand that data brokers take down their home address and sue if the broker refuses. The brokers stay out of reach of Louisiana law. That is the piece we work.

What still leaks

Even with those protections, three sources stay open for an NOPD officer:

1. Parish assessor records: Orleans, Jefferson, St. Tammany, and St. Bernard all publish property data online, and brokers scrape it directly.
2. Court records: Orleans Parish Civil District Court and Criminal District Court post dockets online. Addresses in civil, divorce, and traffic filings appear unless they were redacted when filed.
3. Out-of-state brokers: Spokeo, Whitepages, BeenVerified, and others source from national aggregators and do not apply Louisiana's public-records rules.

Why the family angle matters here

Most NOPD officers live outside Orleans Parish, in the North Shore towns of Slidell, Mandeville, and Covington or on the West Bank in Marrero and Harvey. Cost of living and school choice drive that. Those living patterns are easy to read from broker data.

Once your home address is on a people-search page, everyone who shares that address is on it too. A broker profile ties your name to the house, and the house ties back to the people who live there. That is how a name from a news report about a call becomes a route to your family.

Officers get named in local coverage of incidents, and a named officer tends to land on a broker page soon after. Your family runs through the same removal work as you do.

What we do for NOPD members

We scan the major data broker and people-search sites for your information and file removals on what we find. Brokers tend to repost after a takedown, especially when a parish assessor record refreshes, so we keep checking and refile when your listing comes back. We handle most of the process and tell you clearly when a site needs something from you.

If your district or the Police Association of New Orleans wants to offer this to members, reach out.