Is a pesky mug shot picture causing you problems? Have you gotten your criminal record sealed, your case dismissed or dropped only to later find out your mug shot was still on the Internet publicly for everyone to see? Public mug shot records are now being made available to the general public, there is currently over 1 million mug shot records on the Internet. Thousands of people are sitting at work, or home and do what many of us do, punch their names into Google, only to see their mug shot picture from years ago staring back at them.
Why are these records online? The answer is pretty simple actually; county sheriff offices have put them online. After the sheriffs department puts the record on the Internet private companies will scrape the data and use it on their websites. These companies put these records on their sites to generate ad revenue through Google adsense and other pay per click type programs. The more pages they have the more money they can generate. Each mug shot website is individual owned and operated so they all work differently. For instance a popular Florida mug shot website, jailbase.com only hosts the images for 180 days after the individual was arrested. Other websites like mugshots.com and florida.arrests.org will host the images indefinitely.
So how do you remove your mug shot? Luckily for those who find themselves slapped on the Internet with embarrassing arrest photos there is an option. Punching a quick search into Google How to remove mug shots will display a list of companies that are able to quickly remove arrest and mug shot information. . Some of the websites have an option for you to remove the mug shot through paying a processing fee on their website; other sites have developed vendor lists of companies that can process an application and for a fee to remove mug shots.
The question many people ask? Is can I remove these mug shots myself? Some of the websites will allow you to do this yourself, others dont make it so easy. The companies offering mug shot removal have pretty much jumped through all the hopes and developed strategies and relationships to quickly and effectively get your public information removed from the search engines. Companies like InternetReputation.com offer all inclusive mug shot and public information removal. They remove information from Spokeo and other data mining website as well as mug shot websites.