Safe at Home

Safe at Home is a program run by the California Secretary of State designed to help victims of certain crimes keep their home address, telephone number, and image confidential and off the internet. The program serves victims of domestic violence, stalking, sexual assault, child abduction, elder or dependent adult abuse or human trafficking. The program also helps employees, providers, patients, and volunteers, and public entity employees who have experienced harassment, violence, or threats of violence because of their affiliation with a reproductive health care or gender-affirming health care services facility, or their work for a public entity.

Government Code section 6208.1(b) prohibits publicly displaying the home address or telephone number of any participant in the Safe at Home program who makes a written demand to not disclose that information. See sample written demand. Section 6208.1(a) also prohibits publicly displaying the home address, telephone number, or image of a Safe at Home participant, or their household members, with the intent to threaten or cause physical harm to the participant or their household members.

Other privacy protections are also available to Safe at Home participants. Under the California Consumer Privacy Act, all California residents can ask businesses to delete their personal information and to opt out of having their information sold or shared with others. (Civ. Code, §§ 1798.105, 1798.120.) Under the DELETE Act, this right to delete applies to data brokers that collect and sell the personal information of California residents. (Civ. Code, § 1798.99.80.) Starting January 2026, California residents can register for the Delete Request and Opt-out Platform (DROP), which helps to limit the information all registered data brokers collect and sell about them with a single request.