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Removing your record from Arrests.org
Free to remove from, with a real form — and a re-scraping problem that makes a single removal less durable than it looks.
Arrests.org does not charge, and one removal guide is blunt about it: do not pay an expedited removal fee if the site asks for one. The form works. The problem is what happens afterwards, because the record can come back through the next scrape under a new record ID, and the removal you won does not cover the new page.
What this site is
- Registered since 12 August 2001 through Tucows, behind Cloudflare, with registrant details redacted. No operator has ever been publicly identified.
- It runs as per-state subdomains — ohio.arrests.org, florida.arrests.org, texas.arrests.org and so on — with a search form at {state}.arrests.org/search.php and county filtering by query string.
- Individual listings are keyed by a record ID that appears in the page URL. You need that ID to fill in the removal form, so the URL is the thing to capture before anything else.
- It was named in a California legislative record: the Senate committee analysis of SB 1027 (Hill, as amended 28 March 2014) cited florida.arrests.org among the sites at issue. The bill would have barred soliciting or accepting fees to remove booking photos, with damages of $1,000 per violation. It did not become law in that form.
- There is a cluster of lookalike domains — arrestsorg.com, fl-arrests.us, arestss.org, arrests-org.us, texas-arrests.org. No connection to this site is established, and they need to be checked individually rather than assumed to be the same operation.
How removal actually works
Where
The removal form on the relevant state subdomain. Find your listing first, because the form needs the record ID from its URL.
What it asks for
The record ID, a reason from its list — sealed or expunged, charges dropped, and similar — and supporting court documentation.
How long
Reported at 5 to 30 days for a decision, which is a wide enough range that no one should promise you a date.
The catch
A removal attorney working this site puts it plainly: a listing removed today can quietly return in a future scrape — same photo, new record ID. Removal is not permanent unless the upstream source stops publishing.
What the removal industry charges for this site
No vendor publishes an Arrests.org-specific price. Two publish Arrests.org-specific removal pages with no figure on either.
One guide tells readers outright not to pay: “DO NOT pay an ‘expedited removal fee’ if Arrests.org asks for one,” on the basis that removal should be free. That is correct as far as it goes.
The generic figures in circulation come from vendor pricing pages, not from this site: $500–$2,500 per listing at one, a $1,700 package at another, $349 and up at a third. Read those as the cost of labour, not the cost of the record.
Where Google comes into it
No payment is demanded, so the exploitative-removal route does not apply. The tool that does matter here is Refresh Outdated Content — after the listing is genuinely gone, that is what resyncs the stale search result, and it does not require you to own the page. It will be denied if the text you describe is still on the live page, so wait for the removal to land first.
What we would charge you for, and what we would not
- File it yourself if you have the record ID and the court documents. It costs nothing and the site does respond.
- Where we earn the fee: monitoring for the re-scrape. A single removal on this site has a shelf life, and the second appearance under a new record ID is the one people do not catch because they stop searching for their own name after the first win.
- Also worth doing at the same time: the copies. This record is drawn from a county source that several other sites in this list also read, so the same booking usually exists in more than one place.
Common questions
Does Arrests.org charge to remove a listing?
No, and one published removal guide specifically warns readers not to pay an expedited fee if asked. Removal on this site is free.
Why did my record come back after it was removed?
Because it was re-scraped from the upstream county source and published under a new record ID. The original removal applied to the original URL. This is the single most common complaint about this site.
What do I need before I start?
The exact URL of your listing, because the record ID lives in it, plus documentation of your disposition. Screenshot the page before you file — once it is gone you cannot go back for the details.
Will an expungement order force them to remove it?
Not by itself. An expungement clears government records; it does not, of its own force, bind a private publisher. Where a private site is compelled it is a state statute doing the work, and most of those statutes ban fees rather than compel removal.
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.
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Sources
- California SB 1027 committee analysis (2014), naming florida.arrests.org
- Removal attorney's account of the re-scrape problem
- Removal guide advising against paying a fee
- Google — Refresh Outdated Content tool
- Nilson v. Layton City, 45 F.3d 369 (10th Cir. 1995) — expungement does not privatize
Every claim on this page was checked against these sources on 2026-08-25. Sites in this category change without notice. If you find something here that is no longer true, tell us and we will correct it.
