# Home-address privacy in Georgia, 2026 Georgia separates law-enforcement property website removal, Safe at Home's real-estate exclusion and the county VoteSafe confidentiality process. Source: https://golowprofile.com/states/georgia (updated 2026-10-24) [States](https://golowprofile.com/states) / Georgia # Home-address privacy in Georgia, 2026 Last updated October 24, 2026 Georgia's local property website rule covers defined law-enforcement officers. Safe at Home separately excludes real-estate holdings, while VoteSafe protects qualifying voters through a county application. [[1]](#source-1) [[2]](#source-2) [[3]](#source-3) General information, not legal advice. Individual eligibility depends on the cited provision. ## Which records and offices are covered? Georgia record routes and their limits, checked October 24, 2026 | Record or recipient | Published mechanism | Important limit | | --- | --- | --- | | Local government property website | A qualifying officer sends a written request for residential address or telephone removal. | The enacted section gives the local government 30 days. [[4]](#source-4) | | Local request form | The government must publish an online request form. | The form may require employment verification. [[5]](#source-5) | | Safe at Home property | The Secretary of State says purchased real-estate addresses remain public. | Real-estate holdings are exempt from this program. [[2]](#source-2) | | County VoteSafe request | Submit the application and qualifying affidavit or shelter certification to the county registrar. | Residency, registration and the listed order or shelter conditions apply. [[3]](#source-3) | | VoteSafe duration | Residence-address protection lasts four years after registrar approval. | Withdrawal, cancellation and moves can require action before that date. [[3]](#source-3)[[6]](#source-6) | ## Which property request did Georgia enact? O.C.G.A. 50-18-78, enacted through SB 215, defines law-enforcement officers for this request. The enacted language is narrower than earlier proposals concerning public employees generally. It reaches specified officers with arrest and criminal-law enforcement responsibilities. A reader should use that definition rather than assume every government job or safety-related role qualifies for property website removal. [[1]](#source-1) The section requires a local government to remove the residential address or telephone information from property records on its own website within 30 days. The statutory personal-information definition includes a spouse. The local government must make a request form available online and may require employment verification. This is a request to the local website operator, with a particular statutory subject and recipient. [[4]](#source-4) [[5]](#source-5) ## Why does Safe at Home not close the property record? The enacted section provides a limited injunction remedy against the county employee with the ministerial removal duty. The retained source does not establish a private-party deletion route under that section. Safe at Home has a separate limitation. The Secretary of State's compliance guidance expressly excludes real-estate holdings and says a purchased property's address will be publicly available. [[7]](#source-7) [[2]](#source-2) Safe at Home's application page requires the program application and a sworn statement. Its address-substitution role should be kept separate from the officer's local-government property request. An applicant can therefore need different procedures for program enrollment and a particular property website. The official real-estate exclusion is especially important when a person expects a new program address to replace a public ownership record. [[8]](#source-8) [[2]](#source-2) [[5]](#source-5) ## How does VoteSafe protect election information? VoteSafe uses the county registrar. The published conditions require Georgia residency, Georgia voter registration and either a qualifying protective or restraining order or bona fide residence in a family-violence shelter. The application must include the required order affidavit or shelter certification. The residence address remains confidential from public disclosure and is used only for voter-registration purposes under the published guidance. [[3]](#source-3) VoteSafe confidentiality normally runs four years after the registrar approves participation. Withdrawal or cancellation can end it earlier, and moving counties requires a new application with the new registrar. Those rules should be checked before a participant relies on an old approval. Ordinary voter-list purchasing remains a separate process. Georgia's reviewed online-tracking guidance also does not establish a general commercial address-deletion entitlement. [[3]](#source-3) [[6]](#source-6) [[9]](#source-9) [[10]](#source-10) [Open the Georgia privacy-rights tool](https://golowprofile.com/tools/state-privacy-rights?state=georgia). Compare the [home-address laws](https://golowprofile.com/reference/home-address-laws), [address confidentiality programs](https://golowprofile.com/reference/address-confidentiality-programs), [consumer privacy rights](https://golowprofile.com/reference/privacy-rights-by-state) and [voter-record rules](https://golowprofile.com/reference/voter-record-confidentiality) behind this page. Related state references. [Texas](https://golowprofile.com/states/texas) and [Florida](https://golowprofile.com/states/florida). Return to the [state directory](https://golowprofile.com/states). ## Which sources were reviewed? Checked October 24, 2026. Scheduled source review January 24, 2027. Each linked provision governs its own record channel and statutory conditions. - [50-18-78(a)(1)](https://gov.georgia.gov/document/2023-signed-legislation/sb-215/download). - [sos.ga.gov official text](https://sos.ga.gov/page/safe-home-compliance). - [Georgia Secretary of State, VoteSafe](https://sos.ga.gov/page/votesafe). - [50-18-78(a)(3), (b)](https://gov.georgia.gov/document/2023-signed-legislation/sb-215/download). - [50-18-78(c)](https://gov.georgia.gov/document/2023-signed-legislation/sb-215/download). - [Georgia Secretary of State, VoteSafe, county move](https://sos.ga.gov/page/votesafe). - [50-18-78(b)](https://gov.georgia.gov/document/2023-signed-legislation/sb-215/download). - [sos.ga.gov official text](https://sos.ga.gov/page/safe-home-faq). - [Official state election-office guidance](https://sos.ga.gov/page/order-voter-registration-lists-and-files). - [Georgia AG, Protecting Your Privacy Online](https://consumer.georgia.gov/protecting-your-privacy-online). --- Go Low Profile is not a law firm and does not give legal advice.