Broker profile
Open Public Records
- Court filings by name
- Removal wants a photo ID
- Redact finds listings · manual opt-out
A free public-records site that indexes over 12.9 million court filings and gives each one its own page, titled with the names of the people in the case. Every filing page ends in a removal form that wants a photo ID and supporting documents and is written for people with legal grounds, such as an expungement or a court order. No page names the company that runs it. A sponsored search box sends the names people type to BeenVerified, which pays the site a referral fee.
Open Public Records overview
At a glance
- Data published
- Substantial
- Re-listing frequency
- Occasional
- Complaint record
- Not established
- Opt-out friction
- High
- Operator opacity
- Obscured
- Prior data incidents
- None documented
Each broker is scored 1 to 4 across the six dimensions above; higher means more exposure, and the overall gauge is their average.
Complaint record isn't established for this broker, so it's left out of the gauge rather than averaged in as a number nobody researched. The figure above is the average of the other five dimensions.
What each dimension means
- Data published: how much and how sensitive the personal data they put out.
- Re-listing frequency: how quickly you reappear after opting out.
- Complaint record: the volume and pattern of complaints across BBB, Trustpilot, and Sitejabber. No listing, or a listing with no reviews, counts against the broker.
- Opt-out friction: how hard the removal process is to complete.
- Operator opacity: how hidden the operating company and its principals are.
- Prior data incidents: history of breaches or leaks of the data they hold.
- Category
Court filings index · searchable by name
- Size
12,943,639 court filings, by the site's own count
- Operating entity
Not named on any current page
- Stated affiliate
Search Systems · per the site's FCRA notice
- Sponsored search
Goes to BeenVerified for a referral fee
- Removal
A form on each filing page · photo ID and documents required
- Contact
- Domain registered
August 26, 2011
- CA registration
None found, checked October 5, 2026
- FCRA covered?
No · disclaimed on every page
Background
Background
Open Public Records presents itself as a transparency project. Its homepage is headed "Open Public Records - Graded" and scores states, counties and police departments on how easy their records are to get. The same homepage says "We do not take advertising from data brokers", and the terms say the site "is not a data broker".
- Court filings
12,943,639, per its court search page
- Coverage
50 states and the District of Columbia
- Price
Free, no account
- Paid for by
Referral fees from BeenVerified
What a visitor's name runs into is the court archive. The court search takes a name and returns matching cases, and every case has a page of its own with the parties' names in the title. Those pages aren't hidden from search engines, so a filing can turn up when someone looks for the person named in it.
The money comes from an orange Public Records Search box that sits on the homepage and elsewhere. The privacy policy calls BeenVerified the site's "single advertising partner" and says "We earn a referral fee on clicks. That referral revenue keeps the site free." A name typed into that box leaves the site and lands on BeenVerified with an affiliate code attached.
Who runs it is harder to pin down. The current pages name no company. An older removal page that still loads, though nothing links to it, carries a 2020 footer naming Statistico Inc at a Montecito, California address. The FCRA notice says "Our affiliate, Search Systems, is a separate FCRA-compliant background screening operation." That's the site's own word for the tie, and it stops short of saying Search Systems owns or runs Open Public Records, so we don't say it either.
Two different things can list you here. A court filing page is hosted by Open Public Records and comes off through its own form. A report you reach through the orange search box belongs to BeenVerified and comes off through the BeenVerified removal guide. Neither removal touches the other.
Data Published
Data types
Sensitive: elevated identity-theft, doxxing, or safety riskStandard public-record field
Read from a live filing page on October 5, 2026. The site says the checks beyond the filing itself are matched by name only, and that it hasn't verified they're about the same person.
- Names of the parties, in the page titleSensitive
- Case number, court, state and filing dateSensitive
- Docket entries, with links to court documentsSensitive
- Bankruptcy, civil and criminal filingsSensitive
- Name checks against public arrest feedsSensitive
- Name checks against U.S. Treasury sanctions and FBI most-wanted listsSensitive
- Name checks against the federal healthcare exclusion listSensitive
- Other cases involving the same surname
Separately, the Texas and California state pages listed named arrestees with their age and sex when we read them on September 22, 2026.
- Arrest listings with name, age and sexSensitive
A name match isn't you. Each filing page carries a notice saying everything on it was matched by name only and may belong to relatives, namesakes or unrelated people. That cuts both ways. A sanctions or arrest check printed beside your case may be about someone else entirely.
Contact
Contacts & links
- Operating entity
Not named on any current page
openpublicrecords@gmail.com · the address the removal form falls back to
- Contact page
open-public-records.com/contact_us.htm · shows the address as a picture
- Phone
None published
- Removal form
At the foot of every court filing page
- Footer on its old removal page
Statistico Inc, 1187 Coast Village Rd., Suite 786, Montecito, California 93108
- Domain
Registered August 26, 2011, per the .com registry
- California registration
None found, checked October 5, 2026
Network
Who it sends you to
Open Public Records has no documented corporate family. It has one advertising partner, BeenVerified, and one company it calls an affiliate, Search Systems. That name sits behind two sites we profile. SearchSystems.net, a records directory with a sponsored BeenVerified search of its own, names Search Systems SR LLC, and Background-Check.com names SearchSystems LLC.
A referral isn't ownership. BeenVerified pays for clicks from the orange search box, and the site's privacy policy says so. Nothing we've read puts Open Public Records on BeenVerified's own list of brands, and none of the removal routes on the site lead there.
FAQ
Q & A
Is Open Public Records owned by BeenVerified?
Nothing says so. Its privacy policy describes BeenVerified as its single advertising partner and says the site earns a referral fee when someone uses the orange search box. That's a paid referral. The court filing pages are hosted by Open Public Records itself, and its removal form doesn't involve BeenVerified.
Who runs Open Public Records?
The current site doesn't name a company. An old removal page still carries a 2020 footer for Statistico Inc of Montecito, California, and the FCRA notice calls Search Systems "our affiliate". Neither of those is a statement of who runs it today, so we leave the operator as unnamed.
Is Open Public Records a data broker?
Its terms say it isn't, and it doesn't appear on California's data broker registry (checked October 5, 2026). What it does is publish court filings under people's names on pages search engines can index, and pass searches to BeenVerified for a fee. Whether that meets a legal definition is for a regulator. For someone named in a filing, the effect is the same either way.
How do I get a court filing taken off Open Public Records?
Through the Request Removal of This Record form at the foot of the filing's page. It asks for your name, your email and an upload of a photo ID with supporting documents, and it's written for people with legal grounds such as an expungement or a court order. Our removal guide goes through it screen by screen.
Do I have to send my ID?
On the form, yes. The upload is marked required and the form won't send without a file. The site's terms describe a second route through its contact page that asks for the page address, enough information to show the page is about you, and a short reason, without spelling out an ID.
Does removing my filing here take it off the court's own records?
No. The site says so itself. It can take a page out of its index, but the record stays with the court that holds it. Only the court can change what its own file shows. Whether a sealing or expungement order closes that file to the public depends on the state and on the order, so ask the court what yours does.
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October 5, 2026 · Written from the site as it stood on October 5, 2026, when we read its court search, a live filing page, its privacy policy, terms, FCRA notice and contact page, and walked the removal form on a filing page up to the Submit button. California's data broker registry was fetched the same day. The Texas and California arrest listings were read on September 22, 2026. We didn't check review sites for this profile, so it carries no complaint rating.