Privacy in Kentucky for first responders

On the sources for this page: We confirmed the two main statutes below against the Kentucky legislature's site and the Secretary of State as of July 2026. Some supporting details were checked against state-code aggregators (Justia, Cornell LII, FindLaw). Confirm the current code section against official records before you file or rely on it.

What protects you in Kentucky

Kentucky has no first-responder-specific privacy statute and no broker-removal law. There is no equivalent of New Jersey's Daniel's Law, which lets covered officers require data brokers to remove their home address and sue if the broker refuses. The Kentucky protections below are general. They apply to any resident, not specifically to sworn personnel.

The Safe at Home program under KRS §14.300 to §14.318 gives participants a substitute address they can use with state and local agencies instead of their real one. It was written for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, and human trafficking. Sworn officers are not categorically eligible. If you have been threatened off the job in one of those ways, intake may consider you. The standard on-the-job threat profile alone will not qualify.

KRS §61.878(1)(a) is the open-records exemption. It lets an agency withhold personal information when releasing it would be a clearly unwarranted invasion of privacy. There is no filing election for officers. Your agency decides how to apply it record by record, and a court can order the record released.

What still leaks

1. County property records. Kentucky county clerks publish deed transfers and tax assessments. Brokers scrape them. There is no redaction statute for officer property records.
2. Court filings. Civil suits, divorce, and small-claims filings often include your home address. KRS §61.878 does not reach court records.
3. DMV records. The federal Driver's Privacy Protection Act limits who can pull personal information from your motor-vehicle record. Kentucky has no confirmed program that suppresses an officer's address from DMV records beyond that federal baseline.
4. Voter rolls. Kentucky voter registration records, including your name and home address, are open for public inspection. Your Social Security number is redacted. Only Safe at Home participants get address confidentiality here.
5. Out-of-state brokers. Spokeo, Whitepages, BeenVerified, and the rest do not answer to Kentucky law. They pull from out-of-state aggregators and commercial feeds.

Laws that work for you here

• KRS §61.878(1)(a): the general open-records exemption for personal-privacy information. Not officer-specific. Ask your agency how they apply it to your records.
• Safe at Home (KRS §14.300 to §14.318): substitute-address program through the Secretary of State. Eligibility is victim-based. On-the-job threat alone is not categorical grounds.

What we do that the state doesn't

Kentucky gives you no officer-specific privacy law, so the broker side is where removals actually happen. That is where we work. We file opt-out requests across the people-search sites that publish your information, and we keep checking, because listings come back.

When a broker ties your home address to your name, it ties the people who live there too. Your spouse and your kids can show up in the same profile, one click from a stranger. Removing your listing removes that link.

In December 2025, a ransomware group exposed Social Security numbers held by the Warren County Sheriff's Office. Stolen data like that gets matched against broker profiles that already list where you live.