Stalking by a known perpetrator
Most stalkers are known to the target. The information they need to find you is usually publicly searchable.
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The most common stalking pattern is by someone the target knows. An ex-partner. A former patient. A former defendant. A coworker who escalated. The stalker often already knows where the target used to live, where they work, what they drive.
Even when they know the basics, brokers fill in what they don't have. New address after the target moved. Where the target's family lives. The target's spouse's workplace. New phone number after the target changed it.
Why first responders catch this more
The job creates the relationships that produce stalkers. Cops who arrested an obsessive defendant. Prosecutors whose former defendants fixate on them. Mental-health workers who treated a patient who attached. CPS caseworkers who removed a child. Victim advocates whose former clients' abusers hold a grudge.
For all of these, the stalking risk is lifelong — it doesn't end when you change jobs. The data broker piece is what makes the stalking still functional five years later, after you've moved twice and changed numbers.
What we sweep that prevents the chain
We file opt-outs across 200+ broker sites and re-check every two weeks. For your prior addresses too — brokers maintain decades of address history, and a known stalker who knows where you used to live can use the broker page to confirm where you are now.
Pair the broker cleanup with the legal protection you have access to: protective orders, no-contact provisions, address confidentiality programs. The legal layer doesn't reach the brokers. The brokers don't honor the legal layer. Both layers are necessary.