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Removing your record from Arre.st

Site guide · arre.st · checked 2026-08-25

Charges nothing, removes almost nothing. Court order only — and its terms threaten to publish more if you send a legal demand.

Arre.st takes no money and grants almost no requests. Its FAQ says removal happens only with a valid court order specifying the URL. It expressly declines requests based on being found not guilty, charges being dropped, a record being sealed or expunged, false accusation, or identity theft, citing the First Amendment. One removal service rates the difficulty here as near impossible, and that assessment is fair.

Its terms also warn that frivolous legal threats seeking to compel removal may result in additional publicly available records being published about the person making them. Read that before you send anything.

What this site is

The domain has existed since 26 February 2011 and is registered until 2033. The registry WHOIS is GDPR-protected and lists a residence in Bulgaria; the site's own terms say it is operated by US Support LLC, described as a Nevada news syndicate. Those two facts do not reconcile, and no public source resolves them.
arre.st redirects to new.arre.st. Listings sit under /Arrests/{State}/All/{page}/ and /Mugshots/{State}/Arrests/{n}/. Its FAQ claims coverage of around 1,000 counties.
It ran a licensing option at one point and discontinued it in 2022, which is consistent with its current no-money position.
Its terms include a DMCA notice provision under 17 U.S.C. §512(c). That is the copyright route, and it matters only if you hold copyright in the photograph — which, for a booking photo taken by a sheriff's office, you almost certainly do not.
No litigation, prosecution, regulatory action or press investigation naming this site was found. It has stayed out of the record, which is itself unusual for a site with this posture.

How removal actually works

What it accepts

A valid court order that names the specific URL. Not a dismissal, not an expungement, not a not-guilty verdict.

What it charges

Nothing. Its terms say it does not charge any fee for removal, alteration or modification.

What it warns

That frivolous legal threats may be met with the publication of additional public records about you. Whether that is enforceable is a separate question from whether it is a reason to be careful.

The practical read

This is not a site where a well-written request wins. It is a site where either you have a court order naming the URL or you work on the search result instead of the page.

What the removal industry charges for this site

Three removal companies name Arre.st explicitly. None publishes a price. One offers pay-after-results terms with no figure attached.

One removal directory lists it as free to remove from and rates the difficulty “hard / near impossible” — those two facts together are the honest summary of this site.

Be careful what a fee is being quoted for here. If nobody can get the page down without a court order, a fee for “removal” is really a fee for suppression work, and it should be described that way.

Where Google comes into it

The exploitative-removal route does not apply, because no payment is demanded — the policy's trigger is the site requiring payment to itself or another agency, and this site requires none. Nor does an expungement order help by its own force: courts have repeatedly held that expungement clears government records without binding private publishers. Where a private site is compelled, it is a state statute doing the work, and most of those ban fees rather than compel removal.

What we would charge you for, and what we would not

Do not send a demand letter here without understanding the terms first. This is the one site in this set where an aggressive letter has a published downside.
If you have a court order that names the URL, send it. That is the route the site says it honours, and it costs nothing to use.
Where we are worth paying: everything other than the page itself. If the page is not coming down, the work is the search result, the copies, and what someone actually finds when they look for your name.

Common questions

Does Arre.st charge for removal?

No. Its terms state it does not charge any fee for removal, alteration or modification of a record. It also removes almost nothing.

Will an expungement get it removed?

No. Its FAQ expressly declines sealed and expunged records among others. And as a general matter an expungement order does not bind a private publisher — courts have been consistent on that.

What about a DMCA notice?

Its terms include a DMCA provision, but a DMCA notice requires you to own the copyright. A sheriff's office booking photograph is not your photograph, so this route is almost never available.

Is it safe to send a legal demand?

Its terms warn that frivolous legal threats may result in more of your public records being published. Take that as a reason to be sure of your footing before writing, not as a reason to accept the listing.

Try the free route first

Google removes your phone number, home address, email and — since February 2026 — government ID numbers at no cost through its own tool. More than 10 million people have used it. It does not cover arrest records, so it will not touch the listing on this page, but it is free and worth running before you pay anyone for anything.

Open Google’s Results about you tool

Sources

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