Phoenix Police Department

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

Run a scan on a Phoenix officer and a familiar profile comes back: full name, current home address, prior addresses going back years, spouse, parents, the kids' approximate ages, and the vehicle you drive. Next to it sits the Maricopa County Assessor record that ties your name to the parcel.

Spokeo, Whitepages, and TruePeopleSearch do most of that work. The Maricopa County Assessor publishes parcel-level property data with the owner's name, and the people-search sites pull from it. A zip-code search surfaces clusters of officers living in the same suburban pockets around the Valley.

What Arizona law does for you

Arizona gives peace officers real tools, but each one is a form you have to file. None of it is automatic.

Arizona Revised Statutes §39-123: keeps the home address and home phone number of peace officers, and their spouses, out of records released by their employing agency and other public bodies. It controls what the agency hands out. It does not reach the county's property file or the out-of-state broker sites, and it stops applying once you leave the job.

Arizona Revised Statutes §11-483 and §11-484: let eligible persons, a category that includes peace officers and their spouses, restrict public access to their home address and phone number in county recorder records (§11-483) and county assessor and treasurer records (§11-484). You can combine those two into one affidavit, on the form the courts publish, filed through the superior court in the county where you live. Maricopa County's Assessor runs a redaction process for approved requests. A separate statute, §28-454, covers the same restriction for Arizona MVD records.

Arizona has no broker-removal statute. There is no state equivalent of New Jersey's Daniel's Law, the law that lets covered officers demand a data broker take down their home address and sue if it refuses. The state and county shields cover what government agencies disclose. They do not force the people-search sites to remove anything.

Federal law adds one narrow lever. The Driver's Privacy Protection Act limits how your Arizona MVD record, including vehicle registration, can be shared. It restricts DMV disclosure. It does not pull your address off a broker page on its own.

What still leaks

Even after you file the state and county forms, several sources stay open:

1. County property and court records you haven't redacted. The §11-484 restriction applies only once your affidavit is approved. Until then, the Assessor record is public. Maricopa County Superior Court and the Phoenix city court also publish dockets, and civil, family, and traffic filings can show an address unless it was redacted at filing.
2. Out-of-state brokers. Spokeo, Whitepages, BeenVerified, and the rest source from national aggregators and do not honor Arizona's redaction affidavits. Each one has its own opt-out.
3. News coverage. When an officer is named in a local story, that name often lands on a broker profile soon after.

The family angle

Your exposure does not stop with you. The Assessor parcel that carries your name also carries the address where your family lives, so a broker profile built from it points anyone straight to your door. The prior-address history on these sites links you to relatives who once shared those homes, and a spouse at the same address turns up on the same listing. One officer's profile can map a whole household and the people in it. Your home and family are not public property, and the removal work treats them that way.

What we do for PPD members

We scan the major people-search and data-broker sites for your information and file opt-outs where you appear. Removed listings come back, so we keep checking and refile when they do. A new property purchase or a local news story is a common reason a listing reappears, and our re-checks are meant to catch it. When a step needs something only you can do, such as the superior court redaction affidavit, we tell you plainly and walk you through it.

Set this up once for a precinct and we carry the recurring removal and refiling work, then flag the few steps that need an officer's own signature. See department coverage for Phoenix.

If your precinct or the Phoenix Law Enforcement Association wants to offer this as a member benefit, talk to us.