Privacy in Arkansas for first responders
What state law protects, what still leaks, and what we sweep beyond it.
§25-19-105(b)(13) personal-contact exemption, §27-16-811 ACP (Driver Services). Limited otherwise.
Address Confidentiality Program
Arkansas 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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- Arkansas Code §25-19-105(b)(13): under the state Freedom of Information Act, the home address, personal phone numbers, and personal email of nonelected state, municipal, school, and county employees are not open to the public.
- Arkansas Code §5-27-610: makes it a crime to doxx a minor on social media with intent to intimidate, threaten, or harass. It can apply when someone targets your child, not to your own broker listing.
Applicable laws
What protects you in Arkansas
Arkansas has little privacy law written for officers. The one real lever is the state Freedom of Information Act exemption at Arkansas Code §25-19-105(b)(13). Under it, the home address, personal phone numbers, and personal email of nonelected state, municipal, school, and county employees are not open to the public. Your agency's records custodian carries the duty not to release them. There's no separate form for an officer to file; the protection runs to the records your agency holds. Confirm with your custodian that your address is being treated as exempt.
The address confidentiality program is narrow
Arkansas runs an Address Confidentiality Program under Arkansas Code §27-16-811. The Office of Driver Services runs it, and it puts a post office box on your driver's license or state ID in place of your home address. Eligibility is built for victims of domestic violence. The job alone does not make a peace officer eligible. If you qualify as a domestic-violence victim, you can apply the same as anyone else.
What Arkansas does not have
There is no broker-removal statute here. No Arkansas law lets an officer force a data broker to take down a home address, the way New Jersey's Daniel's Law does for covered public workers in that state.
We could not confirm a statutory process to redact an officer's address from county property records, and county deed and tax records are public by default. DMV records are covered only by the federal floor described below. Voter registration records list a home address, and we could not confirm a confidentiality election for officers. Check the current rules with the relevant county or state office before relying on any of these.
Laws that work for you here
- Arkansas Code §25-19-105(b)(13): the FOIA exemption above. It keeps your personal contact information out of public records held by your agency. Ask your records custodian to confirm your address is exempt.
- Federal Driver's Privacy Protection Act: the DPPA limits who can pull your name and address from state DMV records. It is the floor on DMV data. It does not reach brokers who sourced your address somewhere else.
- Arkansas Code §5-27-610: makes it a crime to doxx a minor on social media with intent to intimidate, threaten, or harass, when it puts the minor in reasonable fear of injury. It can apply if someone targets your child. It is not a way to remove your own listing.
If you're a federal judge in Arkansas, the Daniel Anderl Judicial Security and Privacy Act lets you and your family demand removal of personal information from brokers and agencies. It does not cover state or local officers.
What still leaks
- Out-of-state brokers. Spokeo, Whitepages, BeenVerified, and the rest do not follow §25-19-105(b)(13). They pull from aggregators and commercial feeds outside Arkansas, so the state exemption does not reach them.
- County property records. Deed transfers, tax assessments, and mortgage filings are public by default, with no officer redaction process we could confirm. Buying or selling a home can put your address back into the broker pipeline within weeks.
- Court filings. Civil filings often include a home address in the body, and the FOIA exemption does not reach court records. Redaction is a separate request made to the court.
What we do that the state doesn't
Arkansas hasn't passed officer-specific privacy law beyond the FOIA exemption, and the DPPA is the only floor on DMV records. The exposure that actually gets used is on the broker side, and that's where we work.
The April 2026 Arkansas State Crime Lab breach shows why. A threat actor leaked a full personnel directory of prosecutors, police, and city officials onto a dark-web forum. The agency-level FOIA exemption can't pull that data back once it's out. What limits the damage is whether a leaked name and agency can be cross-referenced to your home address on a broker page.
We file opt-out requests across the major people-search and data-broker sites, then keep checking, because listings come back. When a site needs something from you to finish a removal, we tell you what it needs and why.