An Arrest Without a Conviction Still Shows Up in Searches
Arrests become public record the moment booking occurs, meaning dismissed charges and acquittals still surface in standard search results.
Commercial mugshot sites and legal aggregators scrape booking logs immediately. Many states treat non-convictions differently under the law, which expands your legal options, but search engines do not make that distinction on their own. Background checks and routine name searches will continue showing the arrest until you actively dispute or de-index the listings.
What Actually Comes Down, and What Doesn't
Free options exist for site opt-outs and specific policy violations, while permanent court record removal requires formal legal expungement.
You can often submit free removal requests directly to commercial mugshot websites or use Google's personal information removal tool for qualifying personal data. However, Google's tool does not cover general arrest aggregators. If charges were dropped or dismissed, expungement legally clears the underlying record, while aggregator de-indexing prevents republication on private databases.
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The $199 service covers one category of court record across every eligible aggregator we can find. A real person inventories the copies, prepares the evidence, files the requests, and documents what clears. We don't alter the underlying court record or promise a decision controlled by a third party.