How to remove yourself from CriminalRegistry.org
CriminalRegistry.org has a removal page at criminalregistry.org/remove.php where you search your name to find the record. What it removes is the listing on its own site, nothing held elsewhere.
On average, Serus sends about 184 removal requests per person, 89% of them to data brokers, so expect CriminalRegistry.org to be one of many.
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Head of Product & Co-Founder
Serus is a privacy company with paid tools to find and remove your personal data. This guide shows the free way to do it yourself.
- Opt-out page
- criminalregistry.org
- Method
- Online form
- What you need
- Listing URL
- Cost
- Free
- Last updated
CriminalRegistry.org doesn't say how long removal takes. Under California law, a business has 45 days to act on a deletion request (15 business days for an opt-out of sale).
How to opt out of CriminalRegistry.org
- 1
Open the removal page
Go to criminalregistry.org/remove.php, which is headed Remove Your Info from This Site.
- 2
Search your name
Enter your name to locate the record. The page also has an A to Z index.
- 3
Submit the removal for that record
Follow the prompts for the record you found.
Watch out for
- The site can remove the name, age and address on its own pages and nothing else. Records on truthfinder.com, which it names, need a separate request there.
- It doesn't remove official public records. For those, the page tells you to go to the court or government office that holds them.
Sources checked: criminalregistry.org
Last verified against the official page:
What CriminalRegistry.org holds about you
- Full name and aliases
- Age and date of birth
- Current address
- Court and criminal records
What CriminalRegistry.org is known to collect, not a check of your listing.
Does it come back?
CriminalRegistry.org doesn't publish a relisting policy.
Your rights
California: CCPA. If you live in California, the CCPA lets you ask a business to delete the personal information it holds about you and to stop selling or sharing it. Businesses generally have 45 days to respond.
California: the Delete Act. Data brokers that hold information on Californians must register with the state. California residents can use DROP, the state's Delete Request and Opt-out Platform, to send one deletion request to every registered broker at once.
Other US states. Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Texas, Oregon and a growing list of other states give residents a similar right to delete. Vermont, Texas and Oregon also make data brokers register with the state. Where no state law applies, the broker's own opt-out above still works for most people.
General information, not legal advice.
Frequently asked
Does removal clear my court record?
No. The site says official public records have to be corrected or removed with the court or agency that holds them.
Is CriminalRegistry.org a credit bureau?
It says it isn't a consumer reporting agency under the FCRA and doesn't provide consumer reports.
Does it remove me from TruthFinder?
No. The site tells you to contact truthfinder.com for those records.
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