St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department

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

Run a scan on a St. Louis officer and the same records show up: full name, current address, past addresses, a spouse and relatives, approximate ages of kids, and the vehicle. The county assessor record showing where you own a home is usually in there too.

Spokeo, Whitepages, and TruePeopleSearch carry most of it. The St. Louis County assessor and the St. Charles, Jefferson, and Franklin county assessors publish detailed property records online, and the brokers copy from them. Because SLMPD members cluster in the same suburban towns (St. Charles, O'Fallon, Wentzville, Wildwood, Ballwin, Oakville, Arnold, and Festus among them), a plain search by town or zip code pulls up officer after officer.

What Missouri law actually does for you

Missouri's Sunshine Law (Chapter 610) lets a public body close certain personnel records. That can keep your home address out of what SLMPD releases, but it does nothing about the people-search sites that already copied it.

Missouri's Judicial Privacy Act (RSMo 476.1300) lets judges, prosecutors, and other court-related officers make their home address confidential in state records. Patrol officers are not covered. The process runs through the courts and can take up to about three months.

The federal Driver's Privacy Protection Act limits who can pull personal information from your motor vehicle record. It restricts DMV data, not the brokers that already published your address.

Missouri does not give patrol officers a broad right to strip their home address from county property records. For most SLMPD members, filing opt-outs with the people-search sites is the practical way to take down what is already public. Confirm any statute before you rely on it.

What still leaks

Even after opt-outs, a few sources keep feeding the brokers:

1. County property records. The assessors in these counties publish owner names and addresses online. There is no broad redaction for patrol officers, so anything already posted was copied, and re-running opt-outs is what closes the loop.
2. Court records. Missouri's Case.net system publishes case records statewide. Addresses can appear in civil, divorce, and traffic filings unless they were redacted when filed.
3. Out-of-state brokers. Spokeo, Whitepages, BeenVerified, and similar sites pull from national aggregators and do not answer to Missouri law.

Why the residency history matters here

Missouri first lifted St. Louis's police residency requirement in 2020, and a 2023 law (SB 626) kept it lifted while requiring officers to keep a primary residence within a one-hour response time of work. Officers spread across the suburban ring. Year after year they concentrate in the same towns, so a property search across St. Charles, Jefferson, and Franklin counties returns clean, current addresses.

Your home address is not only about you. It sits on a property record and a people-search profile that also list who else lives there. For an officer in Wentzville or Oakville, that ties a spouse and kids who never made an arrest to the same address anyone can pull up. Taking the address down is what breaks that link, so we run family members through the same removal work.

What we do for SLMPD members

We scan the major people-search and data broker sites for your listings and file opt-outs on the ones we find. People-search records come back, so we keep checking and refile when your information reappears. When a county assessor update or a new court filing puts your address back in circulation, we look for it on the broker sites and file again.

Run a free scan to see what is already public.

If your district or the St. Louis Police Officers Association wants to offer this as a member benefit, reach out. KCPD members can read the Kansas City PD page for the same Missouri context.