Privacy in Arizona for first responders
What state law protects, what still leaks, and what we sweep beyond it.
§39-123 (broad personnel coverage), §11-484 court-supervised property redaction, §28-454 DMV, §16-153 voter.
Address Confidentiality Program
Arizona maintains a state-level program that lets eligible officers, judges, and other protected workers use a substitute address for public records.
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- Ariz. Rev. Stat. §39-123: keeps the home address and home phone of peace officers, judges, prosecutors, code enforcement officers, corrections officers, probation officers, and public defenders out of records an agency must disclose. The agency may release only if its records custodian finds no reasonable risk of harm.
- Ariz. Rev. Stat. §11-484: lets an eligible person, including a peace officer's spouse, ask a superior court judge to redact their home address from county assessor and treasurer records. The order lasts five years.
- Ariz. Rev. Stat. §28-454: redacts an eligible person's home address and phone from Arizona Department of Transportation motor vehicle records by court order.
- Ariz. Rev. Stat. §16-153: keeps an eligible person's home address confidential in the county voter registration record.
- Ariz. Rev. Stat. §13-2916: makes it a crime to distribute someone's home address or other identifying information to harass them or cause physical harm.
Applicable laws
What protects you in Arizona
Arizona gives public-safety workers several ways to keep a home address out of public records. Each tool covers a different set of records, and none of them reaches data brokers. Here is what each one does.
Agency records. Ariz. Rev. Stat. §39-123 keeps your home address and home phone out of the records a government agency has to release. It covers peace officers, judges, prosecutors, code enforcement officers, corrections and probation officers, and public defenders, among others. The agency can release the information only if its records custodian decides that doing so creates no reasonable risk of harm to you or your family.
Property records. Ariz. Rev. Stat. §11-484 lets you redact your home address from county assessor and treasurer records. You file an affidavit on the court's application form, and a presiding superior court judge must find that redaction reduces a danger to your safety before ordering it. A peace officer's spouse can file too. The order lasts five years.
Motor vehicle records. Ariz. Rev. Stat. §28-454 redacts your home address and phone from Arizona Department of Transportation records. It runs through the same kind of court affidavit and judicial order.
Voter registration. Ariz. Rev. Stat. §16-153 keeps your home address confidential in your county voter registration record. Anyone who lives at your address can be covered too.
Address Confidentiality Program. Arizona's Address Confidentiality Program gives you a substitute mailing address. It is built for victims of domestic violence, a sexual offense, or stalking, so a peace officer qualifies only by falling into one of those categories, not by the job alone.
What Arizona does not cover
Arizona has no law that forces a data broker to take down your listing on request. New Jersey (Daniel's Law) and California (the Delete Act) have those; Arizona does not. So even with every state redaction in place, the people-search and data-broker sites keep publishing until someone files with each one.
Ariz. Rev. Stat. §13-2916 makes it a crime to publish someone's home address or other identifying information to harass them or cause physical harm. It is a criminal charge, not a removal tool, but it supports a referral to your prosecutor when someone doxxes you.
What still leaks
- Out-of-state brokers. Spokeo, Whitepages, BeenVerified, and similar sites pulled your address from aggregators before any court order was filed, and they buy from commercial feeds that do not follow Arizona law.
- Court filings. Divorce, tax, and small-claims filings often list your home address in the body. The §11-484 order reaches assessor and treasurer records, not the court file. Redacting the court file is a separate motion.
- Federal court records. Cases on PACER, the federal court records system, are not affected by Arizona law.
- The five-year clock. The §11-484 redaction expires after five years unless you renew it.
What we do
State law shields your agency, property, DMV, and voter records. It does not touch the brokers. We work that side.
We find where your information is posted, file opt-out and removal requests with the people-search and data-broker sites, and keep checking so we can refile when a listing comes back. Property sales and new court filings tend to trigger fresh listings, so those are worth watching after they happen.
Your home address ties to everyone who lives there. Closing the broker path is how you keep your work from pointing strangers at your family.
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