Privacy in North Dakota for first responders

What protects you in North Dakota

North Dakota gives covered personnel one automatic protection and one you have to file for.

Under N.D. Cent. Code §44-04-18.3, the home address and phone number of covered personnel are confidential in agency records by default. Covered personnel include prosecutors, federal judges, state supreme court justices and district judges, magistrates, judicial referees, juvenile court directors and probation officers, law enforcement employees, and state and local corrections staff. You don't file anything for this part. The agency is supposed to withhold it.

Property and mapping records are the exception. Your home address in a geographic information system (a county's online property map), a property title record, or tax parcel data stays public unless you send a written request to the custodian of those records. That request covers the current calendar year and has to be renewed annually. Miss the renewal and the address is back in the public file.

That's the whole state framework. A few things it does not include:

• No state Address Confidentiality Program. Some states run a program that gives protected workers a stand-in mailing address to use on public records. North Dakota does not.
• No broker-removal statute. There's no ND equivalent of New Jersey's Daniel's Law, the law that lets covered officers sue a data broker for leaving their home address up. Nothing in ND compels a broker to take you down.
• No officer-specific DMV election. Federal DPPA is the floor. It restricts who can pull your driving and vehicle records, but ND adds no separate confidentiality designation on top of it.
• No voter roll to scrub. North Dakota is the only state without voter registration, so there's no statewide voter list publishing your address.

If you're a federal judge living in North Dakota, the Daniel Anderl Judicial Security and Privacy Act is a separate federal channel. It lets federal judges and their immediate families demand that brokers and agencies take down personal information. It does not cover state judges, prosecutors, or local officers.

What still leaks

1. Out-of-state brokers. Spokeo, Whitepages, BeenVerified, and the rest don't answer to §44-04-18.3. They pull from national aggregators that already had your address before any confidentiality request was on file.
2. Court filings. Civil filings often carry a home address in the body of the document. The §44-04-18.3 confidentiality applies to what an agency would otherwise release, not to an address already sitting inside a filed court record.
3. The renewal gap. The property-records request lapses at year end. If the renewal slips, the GIS and tax parcel address goes public again until you refile.

Laws that work for you here

• N.D. Cent. Code §44-04-18.3: makes covered personnel's home address and phone confidential in agency records automatically, and covers GIS, property title, and tax parcel records on a written request you renew each year.
• DPPA (federal): limits who can access your motor vehicle and driver records. It applies in every state and sets the floor ND relies on for DMV data.
• Daniel Anderl Act (federal): for federal judges living in ND, a channel to demand removal of personal information from brokers and agencies.

What we do that the state doesn't

North Dakota shields the records its own agencies hold. It does nothing about the people-search sites that publish your address for anyone with a browser. That's the gap we work.

We scan the major people-search and data-broker sites, file removal requests on the listings that show your information, and keep checking, because brokers re-post from fresh source data. We handle most of the process and tell you clearly when a site needs something from you. Your home address and the people who live with you shouldn't be one search away.

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