How To Remove Mugshots From Google With Expert Help

July 23, 2025

If an unflattering arrest record is showing up in search results, you can learn how to remove mugshots from Google and build a better online presence today.  

What would happen if a potential girlfriend, employer, or family member were to come across your mugshot online?

Mugshots from years ago can easily resurface on websites and databases, harming the personal lives of millions of people. Even if your charges were dropped or dismissed, having mugshots online can ruin employment opportunities and relationships while causing you personal harm.

This is a reality for thousands of people. Criminal records from over 20 years ago are now publicly accessible in many states, leaving your mugshot completely visible to users searching your name. This can happen to anyone with a mugshot or a criminal record, even if they only have minor offenses. 

And today, it’s easier than ever for someone to access your mugshots or criminal records with a Freedom of Information Act request.

Most people aren’t comfortable with their personal and sensitive information floating around freely online, but you can’t just petition Google to de-list your information. It may be difficult or next to impossible for you to find the person responsible for posting your mugshot, especially if the content was generated by an anonymous user.

If you’re feeling confused or frustrated and are unable to remove your criminal records from the internet, read on.

Our mugshot removal service was designed with you in mind. Since early 2012, we’ve been utilizing our skills in search marketing to protect the reputation of individuals who have been on the receiving end of bad luck or unfortunate circumstances. We specialize in removing harmful content — including mugshots — from the web. Contact us today at 866-601-6803 to learn more.

Why Is It So Difficult To Remove Mugshots From Google?

Google doesn’t offer a removal service that you can use to immediately take content down or petition for removal. They recommend you contact the owner of the site, but that can be tricky.

Technically, if you owned the copyright of the image, you would send a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown notice to the webmaster of the mugshot site. Unfortunately, these sites do not accept DMCA removal notices because the images are owned by police departments and similar entities.

In addition, site owners who run these mugshot sites tend to use private hosting that masks their identities and makes them difficult to find. Even if they have a contact form, it’s little more than decoration. They aren’t likely to respond to you, even if you make legal threats.

Mugshot websites host vast databases of criminal records, and there is little recourse the average person has to defend themselves. The number of states that legally allow mugshots online is also growing.

If you live in Florida, for instance, your records from as far back as 1999 might be freely available online for employers and potential business partners to find. The same goes for anyone living in Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Oregon, New Jersey or a whole host of other states across the U.S.

Do you need help removing your arrest records and mugshots from search results? Get a free mugshot removal analysis today and sign up for a consultation with one of our experts. Learn more here.

How Our Experts Can Help Remove Your Mugshot Image From Search Engines

Often, you can’t simply submit a removal request to search engines or mugshot websites and have them take down your online arrest records or mugshot photos. That data is considered public interest. There’s no compelling reason for law enforcement agencies or website owners to comply with your requests.

Similarly, these sites won’t have a mugshot removal process in place. Why? It’s not common practice to delete online mugshots from databases.

However, with the help of online reputation experts, you can influence search engine results, including Google Search results. We can make it so that your mugshot is not nearly as visible online as it has been.

It’s not usually possibly to have your mugshot removed completely. Luckily, there are ways to make it so difficult to find that people will rarely come across it.

Suppression tactics use new content and SEO to push down your mugshot online. Once your mugshot photo, arrest information and other sensitive data is far down on the first search engine results page (SERP) — or, better yet, on the second page or later — few people will ever see it.

Only the top 3 search results on Google get a majority of clicks. And most people don’t ever go past the first SERP — under 1% actually clicks on a second-page result.

With our content suppression services, you can essentially have your mugshot removed from top search results. This makes it much less likely that the images will be found.

We work on behalf of our clients to erase mugshots, arrest records, police reports and other sensitive information from the internet. Give us a call at 866-601-6803 to learn more.

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