Texas Address Confidentiality Program

What Texas ACP actually does

The Texas Address Confidentiality Program (codified in Code of Criminal Procedure Chapter 56, Subchapter C) operates the same way as similar programs in other states. The Office of the Attorney General assigns the participant a substitute mailing address — actually a PO Box managed by the OAG. State and local government agencies in Texas are required by law to use the substitute address whenever the participant's home address would otherwise appear.

That covers voter registration, DMV records, court filings (with proper invocation), property tax records (with proper invocation), and any other agency record where the home address is collected. The OAG maintains a confidential record of the participant's real address and forwards first-class mail received at the substitute PO Box to the real address.

Who's eligible

Eligibility is limited to specific categories of survivors:

• Survivors of family violence
• Survivors of sexual assault
• Survivors of stalking
• Survivors of trafficking of persons or human trafficking
• Members of the same household as a qualifying participant (spouses, children, dependents)

The program is administered through county-level designated assisting agencies — typically family violence shelters or victim services agencies. Enrollment requires in-person assistance through one of those agencies.

Unlike California's Safe at Home, Texas ACP does not currently extend to reproductive healthcare workers as a separate category. Eligibility runs through the survivor categories listed above.

How to enroll

1. Contact a designated assisting agency in your county. The OAG maintains the list at texasattorneygeneral.gov.
2. Complete the application with the assisting agency's help. Provide documentation of qualifying status (police report, protective order, etc.).
3. Attend the in-person enrollment session. The assisting agency walks you through how to use the substitute address with agencies and service providers.
4. Receive your enrollment certificate. Use the substitute address on every record going forward.

Enrollment lasts three years and can be renewed. There's no fee.

What it doesn't reach

Texas ACP is a state-level program with limits:

1. Data brokers and commercial data sources. Spokeo, Whitepages, BeenVerified, and the rest hold addresses they obtained before you enrolled, or through commercial channels (credit reports, marketing data, leaked databases) that aren't bound by the program.
2. Federal records. Federal court PACER filings, federal agency records, and federal voter registration aren't bound by Texas law.
3. Private parties. Banks, landlords, employers, doctors, and anyone else you've given your address to over the years still have it. ACP doesn't reach back and clean those.
4. Property records you owned before enrollment. Records of your prior ownership of real property remain public unless you separately invoke Tax Code §25.025 with the county appraisal district.

What we do

Texas ACP closes the agency disclosure path going forward. We close the broker path — the historical records and commercial data feeds the program doesn't reach. Standard opt-outs across 200+ broker sites, re-checked every two weeks.

For first responders in Texas specifically, the parallel tools you can stack with ACP (or use independently if you don't qualify for ACP) are:

• Government Code §552.117 — written election with each agency holding your personnel records. If your agency doesn't hand you a form, the agency confidentiality election template covers the standard fields. Once filed, your home address, home phone, emergency contact info, SSN, and family-member info are exempt from public-records disclosure. This is the workhorse for active and former peace officers, prosecutors, judges, and other covered personnel.
• Tax Code §25.025 — written request with the county appraisal district to make your home address confidential in appraisal records. The covered list is broad: current and former peace officers (and their spouses, surviving spouses, and adult children), county jailers, TDCJ employees, commissioned security officers, federal judges, state judges, US Marshals, district and county attorneys, firefighters, volunteer firefighters, EMS personnel, customs and border patrol officers, and others. The filing path is Form 50-284 to your county appraisal district.
• Election Code §15.0215 — written request with your county elections office to keep your voter registration confidential.

Stack all three.