Broker profile
ThePublicIndex
- InfoPay brand
A people-search site in the InfoPay, Inc. family that markets itself as the "#1 Resource for Finding Public Records" and leans on the Freedom of Information Act for framing. It searches by name, phone, email or address - the full four-way people-search surface - and it's one of thirteen domains on InfoPay's California filing. Its opt-out is search-first and hands off to the same gated removal endpoint InfoTracer uses.
ThePublicIndex overview
At a glance
- Data published
- Extensive
- Re-listing frequency
- Recurring
- Complaint record
- No public record
- Opt-out friction
- High
- Operator opacity
- Mostly disclosed
- 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.
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: volume and pattern of complaints across BBB, Trustpilot, and Sitejabber; no findable review presence 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
People search · public records
- Operating entity
InfoPay, Inc.
- Headquarters
Boston, MA
- Searchable by
Name · phone · email · address
- Opt-out
Search-first, then members.thepublicindex.org
- FCRA covered?
No · InfoPay's filing answers no
- CA registration
One of 13 domains on InfoPay, Inc.'s filing
- 2024 deletions
18,145 across the estate · 4,505 denied
Background
Background
ThePublicIndex is the most conventional people-search product in the InfoPay estate. Four search tabs - Name, Phone, Email, Address - over a national public-records index, wrapped in an explainer about the Freedom of Information Act and government transparency.
- Operating entity
InfoPay, Inc.
- Address
227 Lewis Wharf Boston, MA 02110
- Domains on the filing
13
- Filed compliance contact
compliance@infopay.com · (800) 309-9351
The FOIA framing deserves a moment, because it's doing rhetorical work. FOIA governs how the public can compel disclosure from government agencies. It says nothing about a private company assembling those disclosures into a searchable national index of individuals and charging for access. The records may well be public; the index is the product, and the index is what an opt-out removes.
Four-way search is what makes this one worth attention. A site that only takes a name is limited by how common your name is. One that also takes a phone number or an email address turns a single identifier someone already has into a full profile - which is the pivot that matters for stalking, harassment and social-engineering risk.
thepublicindex.org is one of thirteen domains on InfoPay, Inc.'s California data-broker registration, alongside InfoTracer, RecordsFinder, StateRecords, CourtRecords.us and CourtCaseFinder. InfoPay's 2024 filing reports 18,145 deletion requests across the estate, 4,505 of them denied.
One company, thirteen domains, and no shared suppression that anyone has confirmed. InfoPay files InfoTracer, RecordsFinder, StateRecords, CourtRecords.us, CourtCaseFinder and this site on one registration, and each serves its own opt-out page. Treat every brand that lists you as a separate removal until the operator says otherwise.
Data Published
Data types
Taken from the site's own search tabs and homepage copy. The reverse-lookup surface is the part worth noting - a phone number or an email address is enough to start a search here.
Names, searchable directly and reachable from other identifiers
Phone numbers, searchable in reverse
Email addresses, searchable in reverse
Current and previous addresses
Public-records data assembled from federal, state, county and municipal sources
Contact
Contacts & links
- Operating entity
InfoPay, Inc.
- Address
227 Lewis Wharf Boston, MA 02110
- Filed compliance contact
- Opt-out page
- Removal endpoint
members.thepublicindex.org/removeMyData/ · shared template with InfoTracer
- Site-published contacts
None found beyond the opt-out page
Network
Sister brands
InfoPay, Inc. files thirteen domains on a single California data-broker registration. This directory now covers nine of them, and the family splits into distinct products rather than clones - court records, people search, property, vehicles, business entities and identity monitoring all run off the same operator.
One company, thirteen domains, and no shared suppression that anyone has confirmed. InfoPay files InfoTracer, RecordsFinder, StateRecords, CourtRecords.us, CourtCaseFinder and this site on one registration, and each serves its own opt-out page. Treat every brand that lists you as a separate removal until the operator says otherwise.
There's a separate path for judges and law enforcement. Every opt-out page in this family carries a Covered Person Removal Request section citing the Daniel Anderl Judicial Security and Privacy Act, for current, former and retired judges, prosecutors and law-enforcement staff plus immediate family in the same household. If that's you, use that path rather than the ordinary form - it's a different legal basis and a stronger one.
FAQ
Q & A
Is ThePublicIndex a data broker?
Yes. thepublicindex.org is named on InfoPay, Inc.'s thirteen-domain California data-broker filing. It aggregates public records into a searchable national index of individuals and sells access, which is the definition the California Delete Act registry exists to capture.
Who owns ThePublicIndex?
InfoPay, Inc. of 227 Lewis Wharf, Boston, Massachusetts, which lists ThePublicIndex among its DBAs. The same registration covers InfoTracer, PropertyChecker, GoodCar, StateCourts.org, RecordsFinder, StateRecords, CourtRecords.us and CourtCaseFinder.
The site says these are public records under FOIA. Doesn't that make it legal?
Aggregating public records is generally lawful, and that isn't really the question. FOIA is about compelling disclosure from government agencies - it doesn't authorise anything a private aggregator does, and it grants you no rights against one. What does give you rights is state privacy law, which is why the site runs an opt-out at all.
Someone found me from just my phone number. How?
That's the reverse-lookup surface working as designed. ThePublicIndex accepts a phone number or an email address as a search input and returns the profile attached to it, so a single identifier someone already has becomes a name and an address. Opting out removes the listing that pivot lands on.
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August 6, 2026 · Drafted from the California data-broker registry CSV (downloaded and read directly) and each site's own pages, opt-out form and footer. The opt-out flow has since been walked end to end - see the removal guide.