Remove Mugshot from WhosArrested.com

WhosArrested.com is a mugshot search website that takes arrest information and mugshot photos from public databases and publishes this content online. The website already has pages on thousands of individuals who have been incarcerated for charges ranging from DUI or drug possession to domestic violence, and everything in between. When the site was first launched it only published mugshot photos and arrest records for people whose arrests took place in Nevada, Arizona or Florida. Since then, Whos Arrested has steadily expanded its coverage of arrests by increasing the number of states it accesses public arrest records from. Today WhosArrested.com contains mugshot photos and arrest record information on people who have been arrested in 15 U.S. states: Florida, Nevada, Arizona, Michigan, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Iowa, Idaho, Georgia, Ohio, Utah, Oregon, California, Tennessee and Texas; covering a total of nearly 50 separate counties in the United States.

As the website states, WhosArrested.com was designed to be search engine friendly, so that the information contained on the website could be easily found on Google, Bing and other internet search engines. This means that the mugshots and criminal records of people who have been arrested in any of the counties covered by WhosArrested.com can normally be found online by googling the name of the inmate. As you might expect, making this type of sensitive information available to millions via the web has drawn a good deal of positive and negative attention from the American public and media. WhosArrested.com was even awarded Best Website of 2011 by Miami News Times, a local online newspaper based in Miami, FL.

Why Does My Mugshot Appear on Whos Arrested?

Most people have no idea that, if arrested, their criminal record and mugshot might end up being prominently displayed on the internet because of websites like WhosArrested.com. So when they find their picture plastered on the internet, they want to know how it got there. WhosArrested.com is not discriminatory in their selection of whose arrest information they publicize on the internet. Because arrest information and mugshot images published on WhosArrested.com are pulled directly from State and County police departments, if you are criminally charged in any of the 46 counties covered by Whos Arrested, then chances are strong that your mugshot and arrest info will be posted on WhosArrested.com.

What if you’re innocent?
It really doesn’t matter. Whether the courts find you to be guilty or innocent, if you are charged with a crime and detained by police, WhosArrested.com is free to publish this information online.

Hot to Remove a Mug Shot from WhosArrested.com for Free

In most cases there is no way to get your name, mugshot or criminal record off WhosArrested.com for free. Because the criminal records accessed by WhosArrested.com are in the public domain, it is not illegal for them to publish on the internet, and they can cannot be forced to take it down without an official court order obtained from a judge.

If the information appearing on WhosArrested.com is from charges that have been expunged or sealed by the courts, you will need to provide WhosArrested.com with documents that prove that your case was expunged by a judge. This is the only way to make WhosArrested.com take down the page containing your arrest information or mugshot.

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