Privacy in North Dakota for first responders
What state law protects, what still leaks, and what we sweep beyond it.
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- N.D. Cent. Code §44-04-18.3(5) — public records and property records redaction for prosecutors, federal/state/magistrate judges, juvenile probation, law enforcement employees, corrections employees, and Department of Corrections staff. Annual renewal required.
Applicable laws
What protects you in North Dakota
North Dakota's protection is narrow but useful. The single working lever is N.D. Cent. Code §44-04-18.3(5). It lets covered personnel — prosecutors, federal and state judges, magistrates, juvenile probation officers, law enforcement employees, state and local corrections employees, and Department of Corrections staff — request that their home address be redacted from public records. The same statute covers property records.
The filing is a written request to the custodian of the records. Either the officer or the employer can file. The protection lasts one year. You renew annually — miss the renewal and you're back in the public file.
There's no state Address Confidentiality Program in North Dakota. There's no state-level DMV confidentiality election; federal DPPA is the only DMV floor. There's no broker-removal statute reaching data brokers — 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). The §44-04-18.3(5) request is the lever you have.
What still leaks
- Out-of-state brokers. Spokeo, Whitepages, BeenVerified, and the rest don't honor §44-04-18.3(5). They source from out-of-state aggregators that scraped you before the redaction was on file.
- Court filings. Civil filings often include addresses in the body of the document. The §44-04-18.3(5) request applies to records the agency would otherwise release — not to what's already inside a court filing.
- Annual renewal gap. Miss the renewal and you're back to public. The risk is procedural, not statutory, but it's real.
Laws that work for you here
- N.D. Cent. Code §44-04-18.3(5) — written request to the custodian of records to redact your home address. Covers public records and property records. Renew every year.
- DPPA (federal) — federal DMV floor in every state. See DPPA.
What we sweep that the state doesn't
North Dakota gives officers one real lever and one renewal calendar. We handle the rest. We file standard opt-outs across 200+ people-search sites and re-check every two weeks because the brokers don't read state statutes. The state shielded the agency disclosure path. We close the broker path that runs around it. Run a free scan to see what's currently exposed.