Domain repurposed

UnpublishArrest was the cashier, and it is gone

Site guide · unpublisharrest.com · checked 2026-08-25

UnpublishArrest.com never published anything about you. It was the payment side of the Mugshots.com operation — the place people were sent once they asked to have a booking photograph taken down, and where they were charged a de-publishing fee. Today the domain redirects offshore, to an Indonesian-language online-slots page wrapped in a stolen retail template.

You will not find a removal company selling removal from this site, and that absence is the most honest thing in this whole list: there was never anything here to remove.

What this site was

• Its role is described precisely in the California Attorney General's 2018 announcement: once subjects requested removal of their photograph, they were routed to a secondary website called Unpublisharrest.com and charged a de-publishing fee.
• The alleged scale was significant — more than $64,000 from about 175 Californians, and more than $2 million from about 5,703 people nationally, over three years. Those figures are allegations from a charging document, not findings.
• Reported fees varied widely. Press accounts describe $399 quoted and $500 paid. An earlier civil complaint, filed in Cook County in January 2016, alleged fees from $398 to $2,000, with one plaintiff quoted $15,000 to remove everything and another $1,000 per page.
• That civil complaint named Mugshots.com, UnpublishArrest.com and a third domain together, alleging all three were owned, operated and staffed by the same people behind masked registrations and shell company names. Naming the publisher and the cashier in one filing was the point.
• The case ended in 2025. Three defendants pleaded no contest on 5 May to identity theft and attempted extortion, receiving a year of summary probation each and sharing $78,000 in restitution, with credit for time served in 2018. A fourth had pleaded guilty in 2022 as an accessory after the fact. Note the distance: more than $2 million alleged in 2018, $78,000 in restitution ordered seven years later.
• The domain today issues a redirect to a Czech-registered host serving an Indonesian online-slots page. Whatever this was, it is now spam infrastructure.

What actually works now

There is nothing to remove

This domain never hosted arrest records. It hosted an invoice. If your record was published, it was published on the other side of the operation.

Go to the publishing side

Mugshots.com now states it does not accept payment for removal, and lists six grounds it will act on: expungement, seal, no information, record restriction, identity theft, or death.

If you paid a fee here

Keep whatever records you still have. Restitution in the criminal case was limited and specific, and what remedies remain will depend on your state and how long ago it happened — that is a question for a lawyer, not for us.

For the search result

If anything still points at this domain, Google's Refresh Outdated Content tool is the free route, and does not require you to own the page.

What is still being sold for this site

No removal company sells removal from this domain, because there is nothing here to remove. That is the correct behaviour, and it is worth noting how rare it is across the rest of this list.

The prices that matter here are historical: $399 quoted and $500 paid per press accounts, and $398 to $2,000 alleged in the 2016 civil complaint, with outliers of $1,000 per page and $15,000 for everything.

The wider industry rates quoted today — $500 to $2,500 per listing is the range published by one vendor — sit in the same territory as the fees that produced a criminal prosecution. The difference is what the money buys: labour on your behalf, or access to a page someone is holding hostage. Ask which one you are paying for, every time.

Where Google comes into it

Nothing here to de-index; if a record exists it is on the publishing side. This domain is, though, the clearest illustration of Google's exploitative-removal policy trigger. That policy applies where a website requires payment to the site or other agencies to have content removed — and routing subjects to a separate site to pay is exactly the arrangement the words other agencies were written for.

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

• If someone is charging you to remove a record from a site that does not publish records, you are being sold nothing. That was the original business model on this domain and it did not stop existing when the domain did.
• Go to whichever site is actually publishing. That is where the page is, and on Mugshots.com the published route now costs nothing.
• Where we are worth paying: everywhere the record was copied while all this was going on. Those copies outlived the prosecution and they outlived the domain.

Try the free route first

This is the tool for a search result still showing a page that no longer exists. It is free, and — the part almost nobody knows — you must NOT own the page to use it. That is its entire purpose. Processing takes a few days. A request is refused if the text you describe is still on the live page, so it works only once the page is genuinely gone, which here it is.

Open Google’s Refresh Outdated Content tool

Sources

• California AG — charges announced 16 May 2018
• Domain Name Wire — 2025 plea deal resolving the case
• Courthouse News — 2016 class action naming UnpublishArrest
• Prison Legal News — reported per-removal fees
• Google — exploitative removal practices policy

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.