Sacramento Police Department

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

The profile usually looks the same: your full name, current home address, prior addresses going back to the academy, your spouse and parents, the approximate ages of your kids, your vehicle, and the Sacramento County Assessor record for your parcel.

Spokeo, Whitepages, and TruePeopleSearch do most of the work. The assessors and recorders in Sacramento, Placer, El Dorado, Yolo, and Sutter counties all publish records online, and the people-search sites copy them. A single zip-code search can surface clusters of officers living in Elk Grove, Roseville, Rocklin, Lincoln, Folsom, El Dorado Hills, Citrus Heights, and Natomas.

What California law does for you

California gives peace officers a few specific tools. None of them is automatic. You have to file each one.

Government Code sections 7928.205 through 7928.215: these let you demand that state and local agencies stop posting your home address and phone number online. The request is in writing, made to each agency, and your bargaining representative can file it for you. These were recodified in 2023 from the former section 6254.21.

Vehicle Code 1808.4: active and retired peace officers can ask the DMV to keep their home address confidential in vehicle and license records. You file form INV 32 through your agency. Behind that, the federal Driver's Privacy Protection Act limits how the DMV releases personal information from driver and registration records, but it allows several exceptions that brokers pull through, so it slows the vehicle source rather than closing it.

California Safe at Home: the state's address-confidentiality program for survivors of stalking, domestic violence, and similar threats. It's a narrower path, and most officers won't qualify. See California Safe at Home.

There is also a newer statute aimed at the brokers themselves. Under the California DELETE Act, the state runs a website called DROP where residents can ask registered data brokers to delete their personal information in a single request. Brokers that register with California have to check DROP and process those requests on a set schedule, with the processing requirement starting in August 2026. It reaches brokers that register. It does not reach sites that don't.

This is a different approach from New Jersey's Daniel's Law, which lets covered officers sue a data broker that fails to remove their home address. California offers a deletion platform, not a right to sue.

What still leaks

Three sources stay open for a SacPD officer even after you file:

1. County property records. Sacramento, Placer, El Dorado, Yolo, and Sutter all publish online, and brokers copy them. The agency requests above don't reach the assessor unless you file there separately.
2. Court records. Sacramento Superior Court publishes dockets. Civil filings, divorce, and traffic matters can show an address unless it was redacted at filing.
3. Brokers that don't register. A people-search site that isn't registered with California, or that sources its data from out-of-state aggregators, can sit outside both the DELETE Act platform and the state agency rules.

Why the capital city raises the risk

Sacramento is the state capital, and protest activity at the Capitol can put local officers in front of cameras. SacPD's roughly 700 sworn positions are authorized strength; the department has run well under that in recent years, with about a hundred vacancies reported through 2025, so the officers actually working carry more exposure per head. An officer's name reaches news coverage and social media, and a name is easy to run through a people-search site. The home address that comes back is often in a suburb like Roseville or Elk Grove, not downtown.

A broker profile doesn't stop at you. It links your name to the people listed at your address and near it: a spouse, a parent, an adult child. From one page, a stranger can move from your name to your household and the addresses tied to it. Your home and the people in it are not public property, and that linkage is the reason removal has to cover your family, not just you.

What we do for SacPD members

We scan the data-broker and people-search sites for your information and file removals on what we find. Where California's consumer privacy law applies, we file deletion requests; where a site runs its own opt-out, we use it. When a listing comes back, we re-check regularly and re-file. County recorder filings can put your address back into circulation, so we keep watching for it and handle your family's exposure alongside yours. We handle most of the process and tell you clearly when a site needs something from you.

To see which sites currently list you, run a free scan.

If your division or the Sacramento Police Officers Association wants to offer this to members, talk to us.