Data removal. Updated 2026-09-13. About 4 minutes to read.
Suppress your record once in the PeopleConnect Suppression Center to clear PublicRecords.com and the Intelius family, then check the look-alike public records sites separately.
PublicRecords.com looks like a directory of government records, with links for property, court, vital and voter records. The people-search results on it are powered by Intelius, part of PeopleConnect, Inc. That means your listing there comes from the same database as Intelius, TruthFinder, Instant Checkmate and US Search.
So the removal does not happen on PublicRecords.com itself. You suppress your record in the PeopleConnect Suppression Center, which hides it across the whole group. It is free and takes about ten minutes. You cannot opt out of the government records themselves, and several other sites use similar names, so this guide also shows how to tell them apart.
The site has two parts. One is a directory pointing to categories of official records: birth, marriage, divorce and death records, property and tax records, business and professional licences, court and criminal records, inmate searches and sex offender registries. The other is a people search, labelled as powered by Intelius, that sells reports built from those records and commercial data.
The government records are held by courts, counties and state agencies, and they are public by law. PublicRecords.com is a privately owned site, not a government service. You can suppress the report about you, but you cannot use an opt-out to remove a deed from a county recorder or a case from a court index.
PublicRecords.com, PublicRecords.info, PublicRecords.us, PublicRecordsNow and PublicRecordReports are different sites. Suppressing your record through PeopleConnect covers PublicRecords.com only among these, so search each one that ranks for your name.
If you have already suppressed yourself for Intelius, TruthFinder or Instant Checkmate, log back in to the Suppression Center rather than starting again. Your earlier suppression should cover PublicRecords.com, and you can check for any new records while you are there.
Suppression hides your record but does not promise to delete it. If you live in a US state with a consumer privacy law, you can ask for deletion. Removal guides report that PeopleConnect accepts deletion requests at privacy@peopleconnect.us, and that privacy@publicrecords.com also takes requests. Say which state you live in, list the names and addresses on the record, and ask for written confirmation. Do not send a Social Security number or a copy of your ID unless the company asks for verification and you are comfortable providing it.
Californians can send one deletion request to every registered data broker through DROP at privacy.ca.gov/drop. Registered brokers have had to process those requests at least every 45 days since 1 August 2026.
PublicRecords.com is about US records. In Australia, court lists, land titles and the electoral roll each have their own access rules, and your Privacy Act rights to access and correction apply to organisations covered by the Act, with complaints going to the OAIC. In the UK, the ICO handles complaints about erasure requests under the UK GDPR, and you can opt out of the open electoral register. In Canada, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner handles PIPEDA complaints about private companies.
No. It is a private site whose people-search results are powered by Intelius. It links to categories of government records, but the reports it sells come from a commercial database.
It should, because PublicRecords.com uses Intelius data and the PeopleConnect Suppression Center covers the group. Search PublicRecords.com after a few days to confirm.
Not through a data broker opt-out. Court records can only be restricted through the court, for example by sealing or expungement where the law allows. Property records stay with the county, although some counties and states offer name shielding for people at risk.
PeopleConnect suppression usually takes effect within 72 hours. Allow up to 10 business days for all its sites to update.