Teachers and school staff
Removing a teacher's home address from people-search sites
Your full name is known to several hundred students and their families, which is an unusual amount of exposure for a job that pays what teaching pays. A student with a grudge and a phone can find your home address in under a minute on a free people-search site. Escalation from parents is also increasingly common.
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What's different for you
Why the generic advice doesn't fit
Most privacy guidance is written for someone with no particular threat. Yours is specific, so the priorities change.
- You are searched by name constantly, often by minors, which means the free unpaywalled sites are almost the entire risk.
- District staff directories sometimes expose more than intended.
- Social-media aggregators that link a real name to personal accounts matter more here than for most people.
Do this in order
- 01All free people-search sites — this is most of the job.
- 02PeekYou and social aggregators that connect your name to personal accounts.
- 03Address-indexed property sites.
- 04Ask your district to review what its public directory exposes.
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The sites to take down first
Free and unpaywalled, which means anyone can use them with no account and no skill. These are the real risk.
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