Removal guide · People Search USA
This form deals with exactly one record at a time. That matters more than it sounds, because most people who look themselves up here find several, split across a maiden name, an address they left years ago, or a middle initial that came and went. Each one is its own submission and its own emailed link afterwards. People Search USA does publish an address for anyone facing a long list, which is the one shortcut on offer.
Want the background first? The People Search USA profile covers Truth Now LLC, the Illinois class action, and its place in the 2024 MC2 Data leak.
At a glance
Free
Around five minutes for each record you find
No
One, so count yours before you start
Verification email within 48 hours · click it to complete
A cleared listing and a stopped charge are two different requests. Ring (855) 420-0512 for the second one, ideally before the seven-day trial rolls into a full charge. The terms hold fees non-refundable unless People Search USA is the party cancelling the order.
The steps
Open peoplesearchusa.org/api/helper/optOutLight/search, headed "Remove My Information". First name, last name, city and state are what it needs, with zip, phone and email optional. Press SEARCH, and answer the CAPTCHAs, which arrive several in a row rather than one at a time.
Before going further, count how many of the results are actually you. That number is how many times you're about to do this.
Candidates appear under "Select the person you would like to remove", each with an age and a run of past cities. On a common name those entries sit close together, so check both details before clicking.
Pick one. The form takes it from here and forgets the rest, which is why the count from step one matters.
A closing form collects your email, full name, address and phone so the site can match you to the record, then SUBMIT files it. A masked or secondary email is the sensible choice, since there's no reason to give a people-search company a new identifier while removing the ones it holds.
People Search USA says it replies within 48 hours, and that opening its message is what completes the removal. Submitting alone achieves nothing, so watch that inbox for a couple of days.
For every other record that's yours, go back to step one and repeat, including the emailed link at the end. Nothing carries over between submissions.
If the list runs long enough that this stops being reasonable, write to support@peoplesearchUSA.org instead and set out the records you want gone. The site publishes that address for exactly this situation, which is a fair sign it expects people to hit it.
The sisters
Truth Now LLC puts four domains on one California filing, this being one. SealedRecords and Check Secrets are two of the others, and turning up on one generally means turning up on the others. The fourth domain on the filing is spelled inmatesearcher.com with a single "s", which is a different and unrelated site from the InmatesSearcher we profile. It looks like a typo in the filing, but nothing on the record confirms it, so treat that one as a separate job rather than a filing sibling.
One filing is not one opt-out, though. Every domain posts its own form to its own address. Set your expectations before you start, too, because only SealedRecords can be completed the way this site can. Check Secrets refuses every request its form receives and needs a written one instead, as does the two-"s" InmatesSearcher, which shares this platform without sharing the filing.
Confirm
Search yourself again a day or two later, once per record you filed, and try site:peoplesearchusa.org alongside your name in a search engine as well, because listing pages get indexed and can survive in a cache after the page itself is gone.
Keep every confirmation email, not just the first. With several submissions in flight they're the only way to tell which records you've actually dealt with.
If it fails
One record went, the others didn't. That's the form working as designed. Each listing needs its own trip, or one email covering the lot.
No verification email. Look in spam, then submit again from a different address. Nothing else sends it.
Back within a few weeks. The site refills from public records and upstream brokers, so a cleared record can return through a source you never dealt with. File it again and hold on to the dates.
Illinois residents. The operator has already answered a putative class action in Illinois over how it handles personal data, which is worth knowing if a request goes ignored.
Staying off
Expect to repeat this. Records here are rebuilt from public sources rather than entered once, so the same details resurface months later without anyone deciding to relist you, and a site that splits removal per record makes that slower to clean up each time. Recheck every few months, and take in the other three domains on the filing while you're at it. Redact's data-broker scan follows the whole family and refiles when your details come back.
Redact scans 120+ data broker sites from your device, finds where your details are listed, and submits the removal requests for you. If a broker relists you, it files again.
August 2026 · Steps confirmed by a real run of the form rather than from reading the site, evidenced by the step captures on this page. The platform's sister sites were walked between 7 and 11 August; this one was not dated more precisely at the time. Supporting research dated August 5, 2026 from the site's own opt-out form and privacy policy, the California data-broker registry, both BBB profiles, and the CourtListener docket for the Illinois class action.