Privacy in Delaware for first responders
What state law protects, what still leaks, and what we sweep beyond it.
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Delaware 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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- 11 Del. C. §9612 — Address Confidentiality Program; first-responder eligibility is not explicit and may need to be established as a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, or human trafficking.
- 21 Del. C. §305 — DMV record privacy act; allows confidentiality election on motor vehicle driving and license records.
- 15 Del. C. §1303 — voter roll confidentiality; eligible registrants can petition to keep their address from public disclosure.
Applicable laws
On the sources for this page: Some of the statutes cited below were verified through state-code aggregators (Justia, Cornell LII, FindLaw) rather than the Delaware state legislature's official site. The citations are accurate to the best of our knowledge as of April 2026, but verify against your state's official records before filing or relying on a specific code section. We'll update this page when we can confirm primary sources.
What protects you in Delaware
Delaware has no first-responder-specific public-records exemption. There's no broker-removal statute either — no equivalent of New Jersey's Daniel's Law (the NJ law that lets covered officers sue data brokers for failing to remove their home address). What you get instead is a DMV election, a voter-roll election, and an Address Confidentiality Program where officer eligibility isn't explicit.
21 Del. C. §305 is the DMV one. File the request and your driving and license records are restricted from public release. That's the cleanest lever Delaware gives you.
15 Del. C. §1303 lets eligible registrants keep their address out of the public voter roll on petition. Worth filing if your name is on the rolls — Delaware voter data flows into commercial broker feeds.
The ACP under 11 Del. C. §9612 is on the books. The catch: it was written for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, and human trafficking. First-responder eligibility based on the threat profile of the job alone is unclear. If you've been threatened on the job specifically, talk to the program intake; otherwise the DMV and voter elections are the practical path.
What still leaks
- County property records. Delaware county recorders publish deed transfers, tax assessments, and mortgage filings. The state has no redaction statute for officer property records.
- Public-records requests. Without a sworn-personnel exemption in the state FOIA, agency disclosure of your information runs through the general balancing test. Less protective than a categorical exemption.
- Out-of-state brokers. Spokeo, Whitepages, BeenVerified, and the rest don't care about Delaware law. They source from out-of-state aggregators that scraped your data already.
Laws that work for you here
- 21 Del. C. §305 — file the DMV confidentiality request. Restricts driving and license records from public release.
- 15 Del. C. §1303 — petition the elections office to keep your registration address out of the public voter roll.
- 11 Del. C. §9612 (ACP) — substitute-address program. First-responder eligibility is unclear; check intake if you've been threatened on the job.
What we sweep that the state doesn't
Delaware has no state-level officer-specific privacy law beyond the DMV and voter elections. The federal DPPA covers DMV records. The broker side is what's actually leveraged here, and that's where we operate. We file standard opt-outs across 200+ people-search sites and re-check every two weeks because re-listings happen.