Separate the two problems first
There are two different things happening and only one of them is fixable by request. The first is a news story or a docket that is genuinely about another person and simply shares your name, and nothing will take that down. The second is a people-search profile that has merged the two of you into one record, and that one is wrong on its face.
Work out which results are which before doing anything. Our self-opposition checklist audits search results, data brokers, your background file, and PACER separately, which is exactly the split you need here.
Fix the merged records, because those are errors
People-search sites assemble profiles automatically and they mix people up constantly. A profile carrying your city and age alongside somebody else's record is not a judgment call, it is bad data, and every one of these sites has an opt-out. One request often covers several sites: TruthFinder's suppression reaches four properties, and Intelius clears the same family.
Your background file matters more than the websites here. Screening companies operate under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, which gives you an actual right to dispute an inaccurate record rather than a policy to appeal to, and a mismatched criminal record on a screening report is the version of this problem that costs people jobs.
For everything accurate, the answer is outranking
The other person's story stays, so the only move is to be the more findable version of the name. That is the ordinary build: a website on a domain you own, the profile set that fills what is missing, and enough current material that a search resolves to you rather than to them.
This case has one advantage over the usual one. You are not trying to outrank something about yourself while also being the reason it exists. There is nothing tying the two of you together beyond a string of characters, so the work compounds cleanly once it starts.
What to expect
The broker corrections can land quickly. Our fastest documented removal took eight days, on a record where the basis was clean and the sites involved answer requests, which is written up in the expunged record case study. In that engagement 281 aggregator records were checked and none were still hers at the end.
The outranking half runs in months. The whole first two pages as one job is $2,488, one time, and personal information removal on its own is $399 with a thirty-day money-back guarantee and no conditions.
Give people a consistent way to identify you
Mark which results actually concern you before requesting changes. Another person’s legitimate page is not automatically a removal candidate because the two of you share a name. Use accurate, consistent profession, employer, biography, and location details where appropriate on your own profiles.
For a fictional example, two people named Alex Morgan may have different professions. A consistent title and a website linking to the correct published work help a reader distinguish them. Do not manufacture a new identity. If you already have useful articles, amplification can help more people find that work.