How to remove your info from Ohio Resident Database
Redact finds listings · manual opt-out
The opt-out itself is one of the lightest in the industry. It needs no ID or notarization, just your profile URL pasted into two short forms with a spam question each, and promises contact within 48 hours. The hard part is staying removed. The site re-ingests Ohio voter rolls on its own schedule, and refreshed data routinely brings listings back.
The full picture: See the Ohio Resident Database profile for what the site publishes, its anonymous operator, and the two other state sites built on the same template.
The results list every matching record with age, address, county, and voter status. Find the one that's actually you and click its red VIEW DETAILS button. On this state's site that button is the legitimate way in, unlike the Michigan site's, where the identically-named green button is an advertisement.
On Ohio's site, VIEW DETAILS is the real way into your record.
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Copy your profile URL
Your profile page's address is what identifies the record. Copy the full URL from the browser's address bar (Ctrl+C). The opt-out form asks for it.
The address-bar URL is what identifies your record on the form.
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Paste the URL into the opt-out form
Go to ohioresidentdatabase.com/opt-out (linked in the site footer). The page is headed Opt Out Step 1: paste the profile URL (Ctrl+V) and press SUBMIT. On this state's site there's nothing else on the page.
Paste the URL and SUBMIT. There's no spam question on this state's first form.
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Fill out the final form and submit
The Opt Out Step 2 page shows the record you're removing and takes your full name and email address, plus a spam question and the certification that you're the person in the listing. Submit, then watch your email for a confirmation of the request.
The final form: name, email, spam question. Then watch your inbox.
Confirm
Confirm it worked
Recheck the site after 48 hours. If the listing is still up after a week, resubmit the form. There's no support email, phone, or address to escalate to on this site. For the underlying record, go to the Ohio election authorities; ask about confidential-voter or address-confidentiality programs if you qualify (survivors of domestic violence, protected professions).
If it fails
Troubleshooting
Form errors or CAPTCHA loops: try a different browser without extensions. The site sits behind Cloudflare and blocks anything that looks automated.
Listing reappears after a refresh: this is expected behavior on a voter-roll mirror, not a failed opt-out. Refile the form, and consider your state's confidential-voter options for a durable fix.
No response at all: the FTC's report portal takes complaints about the site; an anonymous data broker that doesn't answer a removal request is the kind of thing regulators ask to hear about.
This site re-ingests state voter rolls wholesale, so treat removal as recurring maintenance rather than a one-time fix: recheck every couple of months, especially after elections when the rolls get refreshed. Redact's scan checks this site for your listing; removal here is a manual step.
Take yourself off data broker sites
Redact scans data broker sites from your device. The free scan shows which of your details are exposed but hides which broker lists you; Premium and Ultimate show where each listing is. Redact checks Ohio Resident Database for your listing. Removal here is a manual step. Premium and Ultimate submit removals for most other brokers Redact covers.
Confirmed by a real walkthrough of both forms - the red VIEW DETAILS button is the way in here, Opt Out Step 1 is just the URL paste, and the flow ends with an emailed confirmation to watch for. Five step screenshots wired in.
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