Portland Police Bureau

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

The data trail on any Portland officer looks the same. Name and current address. Every prior address back to academy. Spouse, parents, kids' approximate ages. Vehicle. The county assessor record showing the parcel.

Spokeo, Whitepages, and TruePeopleSearch do most of the work. Multnomah, Washington, Clackamas, and Clark (WA) county assessors all publish detailed online property data — owner name, mailing address, sale history — and the brokers scrape it directly. Cluster patterns of officers in Beaverton, Hillsboro, Tigard, Tualatin, Lake Oswego, West Linn, Gresham, Happy Valley, and across the river in Vancouver are visible from a zip-code search inside seconds.

What Oregon law does for you

Oregon's Public Records Law (ORS Chapter 192) defaults to disclosure but carves out exemptions. ORS 192.345 and 192.355 list categories that may be withheld, including personal information of certain public employees and law enforcement personnel home addresses under specific conditions. File the written request with each agency holding your records.

Oregon's Address Confidentiality Program (ORS 192.820 et seq.) covers domestic-violence, sexual-assault, and stalking survivors. Officers are not categorically eligible. Oregon has no 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 broker opt-out is the leverage point for what's already on people-search pages.

What still leaks

Three sources stay open for a PPB officer:

1. County assessor records. Multnomah, Washington, Clackamas, and Clark (WA) all publish online. Brokers scrape them. The agency-side election doesn't reach the assessor unless you file there separately.
2. Court records. Oregon eCourt publishes through OECI. 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 Oregon law. They source from out-of-state aggregators.

Why the protest angle matters here

Portland has hosted sustained protest activity for years. PPB officers are routinely named in news coverage, on social media, and on activist sites. Every named-in-the-news officer is a name that lands on a broker page within hours of the article. The home address pulled from that profile is often across the river in Vancouver, or out in Hillsboro or Happy Valley.

A spouse's workplace, a kid's school in Beaverton SD, Hillsboro SD, or Vancouver Public Schools, a parent's address one street over — all reachable from a single Spokeo profile in five minutes.

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

What we do for PPB members

Continuous sweeping across the broker landscape. Standard opt-outs across the people-search sites. Re-listings handled — we re-check every two weeks and refile inside 24 hours when you reappear. After any Multnomah, Washington, Clackamas, or Clark (WA) assessor update, we re-check inside 30 days.

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