Court records in your search results
The official record and the dozen aggregator copies of it are different problems. The copies are the ones ranking for your name, and the copies are the winnable fight.
Can court records be removed from Google?
Official court records are public documents and are generally not removable from search while they remain public. What is usually removable are the third-party aggregator copies — legal data sites that republish filings — particularly where a record has been expunged or sealed, where charges were dismissed, or where the page carries personal information such as a home address. Where a court seals or expunges a record, the search results can then be cleared too.
Expungement is the real lever, and it is a legal process rather than a removal service. If you qualify, getting the record sealed first turns a near-impossible search problem into a routine one. We will tell you when that is the right order of operations, even though it means waiting.
What makes a court record case workable
- An expungement or sealing order from the court
- Charges dismissed, dropped, or ending in acquittal
- A civil matter settled, withdrawn, or decided in your favour
- The page is an aggregator copy rather than the official court portal
- Personal information — address, date of birth, identifiers — on the page
- A bankruptcy or judgment that has since been discharged or satisfied
How a court record case runs
- 1
Separate official from aggregator
The official portal and the copies are different targets with different odds. We map which is which before quoting.
- 2
Legal status check
Expunged, sealed, dismissed, discharged — or none of those. This decides whether there is a case at all.
- 3
Aggregator removal
Most legal data sites have a removal process for sealed or expunged records, because republishing them creates liability for them.
- 4
De-index filing
Per URL, where the site will not act and a policy ground applies.
- 5
Proof and monitoring
Dated screenshots per URL, then re-checks as aggregators re-import from the same upstream feeds.
The specifics
- Priced
- Per URL
- Usually removable
- Aggregator copies, especially after sealing or expungement
- Usually not removable
- A live official record that remains public
- Typical timeline
- 2 to 10 weeks per URL after the legal status is settled
- Counts as delivered
- The URL no longer returns for searches of your name, evidenced by a dated screenshot
What we will not claim
- A public court record that has not been sealed or expunged generally stays public and stays indexed. We will not sell an attempt that has no ground under it.
- We are not a law firm and we do not file expungement petitions. Where that is the right route we will say so and step back.
- Removal at the source beats de-indexing every time: it clears every search engine at once and it cannot be undone by a recrawl. We try the source first even when de-indexing is the cheaper job for us.
- Google decides. We build the strongest documented request; nobody outside Google can force a result down, and anyone claiming a contact there is lying to you.
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