San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department

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

Run a scan on a San Bernardino County deputy and the pattern repeats: name, current address, prior addresses back to your academy days, spouse, parents, your kids' approximate ages, and your vehicle. Next to it sits the county assessor record showing the parcel.

Spokeo, Whitepages, and TruePeopleSearch carry most of it. The San Bernardino, Riverside, and Los Angeles county assessors and recorders publish parcel and deed data online, and the brokers pull from those sources directly. A zip-code search surfaces clusters of deputies in Apple Valley, Hesperia, Victorville, Yucaipa, Redlands, Highland, Rancho Cucamonga, Fontana, and Chino Hills.

What the law does for you

A deputy has a few overlapping protections here, and none of them covers everything.

Vehicle Code §1808.4: keeps your home address out of the DMV records that would otherwise be open to public inspection. It covers active and retired peace officers, and their families in defined cases. You request it through the DMV.

Government Code §7928.205: bars California state and local agencies from posting your home address or phone number online without your written permission. It binds government agencies, not the data brokers themselves. (This is the provision formerly numbered §6254.21, renumbered when the Public Records Act was reorganized in 2023.)

The California Delete Act: lets any California resident file one deletion request through a state-run portal called DROP that every registered data broker must act on. Your residency triggers it, not your job. The consumer portal opened January 1, 2026, and brokers must start processing requests on August 1, 2026. See how the Delete Act and DROP work.

One federal law layers on top. The federal Driver's Privacy Protection Act limits who can pull the personal information in your California DMV and vehicle records. It restricts those disclosures; it does not remove listings brokers have already built. We can't reach into DMV records, but we file the broker opt-outs that take those listings down and refile when they come back.

California Safe at Home is the state's substitute-address program for domestic-violence and stalking survivors. It's a narrower path most deputies won't need.

California has no statute like New Jersey's Daniel's Law, which lets covered officers sue a data broker for damages when it fails to remove their home address. The Delete Act is a deletion mechanism, not a right to sue.

What still leaks

Even with those tools, three sources stay open for an SBCSD deputy.

1. County property records. The San Bernardino County Assessor publishes detailed parcel data online, and the Riverside and Los Angeles recorders cover the rest of the commute range. Brokers scrape all three. The DMV and agency protections above don't reach the assessor.
2. Court records. San Bernardino Superior Court publishes dockets. Addresses on civil, family, and traffic filings appear unless they were redacted when filed.
3. Out-of-state brokers. Many people-search sites operate outside California and source from out-of-state aggregators, so a registered-broker deletion request may not reach all of them.

Why the geography matters here

San Bernardino County covers more than 20,000 square miles, the largest county by area in the contiguous US, and the patrol stations are spread across it. A deputy working a high-desert station often lives nearby, in Apple Valley, Hesperia, or Victorville. Inland Empire deputies cluster in Rancho Cucamonga, Fontana, Yucaipa, and Redlands. Either pattern is easy to narrow down from a zip-code lookup.

Your family is on the same listing

A broker profile rarely stops at the deputy. The same page that lists your address reaches sideways into the household: the co-owner named on the parcel, a phone number that traces back to someone you live with, a relative whose record surfaces because you once shared an address. In a county where deputies cluster in a short list of Inland Empire and high-desert towns, those links make a home easy to pin down. Clearing your own listing means clearing what's attached to it, not just the line with your name.

What we do for SBCSD members

We scan the people-search sites that carry deputies and file removals where you show up. In California that includes filing through DROP as brokers come online under the Delete Act, plus individual opt-outs at the sites DROP doesn't reach. We keep checking, because brokers repost, and we file again when you reappear, including after a San Bernardino, Riverside, or Los Angeles county recorder update, a common way an address comes back. When a site needs something only you can provide, we tell you exactly what and why.

Run a free scan to see what's exposed on your name.

If your station or the Sheriff's Employees' Benefit Association wants to offer this to members, talk to us.