A booking photograph is published once and then republished by a network of sites that share the same feeds and often the same owners. Clearing it is a systematic job, not a single request, and part of it depends on what your jurisdiction and your case status allow.
Most operate on the same model: publish the booking photo, rank it on the name, then sell removal. Several US states now prohibit charging for removal, and search engines have long demoted the category. Paying a site directly is the worst option available — it funds the model, marks you as a payer to the rest of the network, and carries no obligation to stay down.
Once a record is sealed, expunged, or the case is dismissed, removal requests become substantially stronger: most publishers have a stated policy for it, and search engines will drop the URL from results once the source page is gone. Expungement itself is legal work handled by counsel. We coordinate with your lawyer and run the removal wave the moment the order lands.
Records replicate across dozens of sites drawing on shared data feeds. Removing the top three results changes your search page for a few weeks and then the network repopulates it. The work is mapping the network, filing across all of it, and monitoring for reappearance — which is why we scope this by network rather than by URL.
Court dockets, clerk portals, and official records generally stay. Only the issuing court can seal them, and no vendor can remove a public docket. What we can usually change is what surfaces on your name: third-party copies, aggregator listings, and news pickups. We will not pretend the docket is in scope. See what removal actually covers.
Rules differ by state and by country. Some jurisdictions offer strong sealing routes and statutory removal rights; others offer almost nothing, and a record from one country can remain freely published in another. Nothing here is legal advice — for the legal steps we work alongside your counsel or refer you to one.
Send the name and any URLs you have found. Within 48 hours you get the mapped network: every site currently carrying the record, which are removable on request, which require an order, which are known repeat republishers, and what the realistic end state looks like.
The scope covers the site list, removal route per site, whether counsel involvement is needed, the monitoring period, and commercials. Discretion is default and the engagement runs under NDA on request. Nothing is filed until you sign.
Removal requests go across the network in waves rather than one at a time, with search-engine filings behind each success so the result disappears from search rather than just from the site. Weekly diff: sites cleared, sites refusing, current first-page results on your name.
Close-out report with the full site-by-site record. Because these networks repopulate, most engagements carry a monitoring period with fast re-filing on reappearance. Related work is described in our case studies.
No. Payment is unenforceable, often unlawful for the site to demand depending on the state, and it identifies you across a network that shares data. Where a site will only act on payment, the better routes are the statutory one, the search-engine one, or displacement.
Not by us. Sealing or expungement is a court decision obtained through counsel. What we remove is the secondary layer — mugshot sites, aggregators, people-search listings, news pickups — and the search results that point at them.
Considerably. Dismissal, acquittal, or an expungement order gives you a documented basis that most publishers have a stated policy for, and it strengthens outdated-content filings with search engines. It is the single biggest factor in how a network cleanup goes.
Cooperative sites clear in one to four weeks. A full network with resistant publishers runs two to four months, plus a monitoring period because reappearance is normal rather than exceptional. Send us the name and we will map it before you commit to anything.
A senior analyst maps the network carrying the record and writes back with a site-by-site plan. NDA on the first message if the matter is sensitive.
A review bomb is filed in batches, because forty flags submitted at once get read as noise.
A single thread gets cross-posted and mirrored, so the work has to cover the copies as well as the original.
Trustpilot cases are usually a handful of reviews, each one needing its own evidence and its own filing.
A video reuploaded by other channels needs a claim per upload, not one claim for the subject.
Glassdoor reviews sit on a single company profile, which keeps the count small and the standard high.
One story is syndicated to aggregators and wire partners, and each carrier has to be approached separately.
The same framework we use in week-one of every engagement — how to classify your branded SERP, spot removable content, and prioritize what to fix first. Free PDF, no sales call.