Privacy in Nebraska for first responders

What protects you in Nebraska

Nebraska gives covered officers a way to pull their home address out of county records. Neb. Rev. Stat. §23-3211 lets a law enforcement officer, a Nebraska National Guard member acting in a law enforcement role, or a judge apply to the county assessor to withhold their residential address from the assessor, register of deeds, and county treasurer. The protection lasts five years, and you renew it every five years. The statute covers the officer, Guard member, or judge who files. It does not name spouses or other household members.

This is a public-records withholding law, not a data-broker law. It resembles New Jersey's Daniel's Law but stops short of it. Daniel's Law lets a covered officer demand removal from data brokers and sue if they refuse. Nebraska's statute only closes the county-records channel. It gives you no claim against a broker.

You file through the Department of Revenue's law enforcement address-withholding application, which goes to your county assessor. Filing it shuts down the county-records feed that many brokers pull from.

Nebraska's Uniform Motor Vehicle Records Disclosure Act (§§60-2901 to 60-2912) adds state limits on top of the federal DPPA. Your DMV record, including your name and address, is not sold to marketers or handed to anyone who asks.

What still leaks

1. Out-of-state brokers. Spokeo, Whitepages, BeenVerified, and similar sites do not follow §23-3211. They pull from record aggregators outside Nebraska and from commercial data feeds, so your information can surface there even after the county filing.
2. Court filings. Civil suits, divorce decrees, and small-claims records often list a home address in the body of the document. The §23-3211 application does not reach court records.
3. The Address Confidentiality Program gap. Nebraska's Address Confidentiality Program, under §§42-1201 to 42-1210, is built for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking. Officers are not listed as eligible on the basis of the job alone.

Laws that work for you here

• Neb. Rev. Stat. §23-3211: file with your county assessor to withhold your home address from county records. Renew every five years.
• Neb. Rev. Stat. §84-712 et seq.: Nebraska's Public Records Act, the framework the address-withholding exemption sits inside.
• Neb. Rev. Stat. §§60-2901 to 60-2912: state limits on DMV records, layered on top of the federal DPPA.
• Neb. Rev. Stat. §32-331: voter registration confidentiality. You can keep your name, address, and phone number off the public voter list if you are in the Address Confidentiality Program, or if a court finds good cause based on a life-threatening circumstance. File with your county election commissioner or clerk.
• DPPA (federal): the federal floor on selling DMV records, in effect in every state.

What we handle that the state doesn't

The §23-3211 application closes the county-assessor channel. It does not reach the data brokers that copy and resell your information, and that is the gap we work on. We scan the major people-search and data-broker sites, file removal requests where you appear, and keep checking, because listings come back. A home address is tied to the family who lives there, so keeping it off broker sites protects them too. Run a free scan to see where your information is exposed right now.