New York Police Department

What brokers know about NYPD members

Run a scan on an NYPD officer and the same details come up: full name, current address, prior addresses back to the academy, spouse's, parents', and kids' names, vehicle, and the commute address pulled from voter registration.

Spokeo and Whitepages carry most of it. VoterRecords republishes the New York voter file with your home address and party. ClustrMaps plots it on a map.

New York adds property-record exposure that many officers underestimate. A Brooklyn or Queens deed transfer publishes the buyer's name and address in the city's public records. Broker sites scrape those filings and keep the listing up.

What New York law does for you

New York has no Daniel's-Law-style statute that lets an officer order a broker to take down their information. Two 2025 bills, S9088 and S9131, would require data brokers to register with the state and give consumers a way to request deletion. Neither has passed, and neither is written specifically for law enforcement. See the New York state guide for the current picture.

What New York does have works against agencies, not brokers. The 2020 repeal of Civil Rights Law §50-a moved police disciplinary records into the state's public-records law. General public-records exemptions cover some personal details in government files. None of that reaches a data broker.

One federal law helps at a single source. The Driver's Privacy Protection Act limits who can pull the personal information in your DMV and vehicle-registration records. It does not remove listings a broker has already built.

If you live in New Jersey, it is worth checking whether New Jersey's Daniel's Law reaches you, but do not count on it. The law lets covered law enforcement officers ask brokers to stop publishing their home address and unpublished home phone number. It defines a covered officer by New Jersey arrest authority, and an NYPD officer's authority comes from New York law, so living across the river may not be enough to qualify. Many NYPD members live in Bergen, Hudson, and nearby counties, so confirm your eligibility before you rely on it.

What still leaks

Federal court records on PACER are public and not bound by any state privacy law. New York voter registration is available to other registered voters and gets republished by voter-record sites. County property records stay open.

Out-of-state and offshore brokers ignore New York exemptions even where those exemptions exist. The tools New York has apply to government agencies. The broker pipeline runs around them.

The family angle

A broker profile links your home address to the people recorded alongside you: a spouse, parents, and adult children. Many NYPD members live clustered in the same neighborhoods, so a single listing can point to a household, not one person.

Removing your listing takes the household off the same page. When the family is covered on the same plan, their listings come down with yours.

What we do for NYPD members

We scan the data broker and people-search sites that publish this information, file opt-outs through each site's process, and keep checking so we can refile when a listing comes back.

For NYPD members who live in New Jersey and qualify, we file Daniel's Law requests on top of the standard opt-outs. We use each site's opt-out and any privacy-law request that applies to you. We handle most of the work and tell you when a site needs something from you, such as an ID upload.

Agency-wide broker coverage for NYPD members is the same work at precinct or borough scale. If your union or PBA wants to offer it as a member benefit, talk to us.

Start with a scan of your own name and address. See what's exposed.