PublicRecords.com
A court aggregatorssite that exposes your name, address, phone, and relatives. Here's what they collect, how to opt out, and why it matters if you're on the job.
Visit PublicRecords.comWhat PublicRecords.com collects
- Full name
- Current and prior addresses
- Phone numbers
- Court records
- Property records
- Relatives and household members
How to opt out yourself
Direct opt-out: https://www.publicrecords.com/optout
- Open https://www.publicrecords.com/optout in a private window.
- Search your name on PublicRecords.com to find your record.
- Submit the opt-out form with your record URL.
- Provide an email address.
- Click the verification link in the email.
- Allow 7 business days for the listing to drop.
What PublicRecords.com knows about you
PublicRecords.com is a different animal from the commercial people-search sites. It's a court-record aggregator. The data they sell — your name, current address, prior addresses, phone numbers, court filings, property records, relatives — comes straight from courthouses, county recorder offices, and civil-suit dockets. Divorces. Liens. Property transfers. Speeding tickets that escalated. Anything that hit a public file.
That source matters. Commercial brokers buy lifestyle data and refresh it monthly. Court records refresh on the court's clock, which is slower. So once PublicRecords.com is suppressed, it tends to stay quiet longer than a Spokeo or BeenVerified would.
Why it matters if you're on the job
A court file is harder to suppress than a marketing list, because the underlying record stays public forever. If you bought a house, that deed is on file. If you went through a divorce, that filing is on file. PublicRecords.com just packages it for someone who doesn't want to drive to a courthouse.
The exposure pattern is the same one that puts every first responder at risk: home address, family members, the path from your name to your front door. If your spouse owns the house, their name pulls your address too. Kids who turned 18 and got their own court footprint show up as relatives.
How to opt out
You search PublicRecords.com for your record, copy that URL into the opt-out form, hand over an email, and click the verification link they send you. Skip the email click and the request stalls. Listings drop inside about a week. Full steps are above.
How long until you're back
About twelve months in our data — roughly twice as long as a typical commercial broker. The catch: any new court filing or property transaction re-lists you immediately. A house purchase, a refinance, even a small claims case can pull you back in.
What we do that's faster
We submit the opt-out, click the verification email, and re-scan PublicRecords.com on a recurring cycle. After a property closing or court filing, we re-check inside 30 days, because that's when the upstream data actually changed. Same coverage runs across 200+ broker sites in parallel.
Who owns it
PublicRecords.com was part of the PubRec, LLC portfolio (alongside TruthFinder and Instant Checkmate) that merged with PeopleConnect Holdings in January 2020 — the deal was brokered by Livingstone Partners. Following the merger, PubRec brands shared infrastructure and corporate parent with the existing Intelius / Classmates / ZabaSearch stack.
Lawsuits
- NJ Superior Court, Monmouth County (MON-L-000484-24) · 2024 · active in state court; brief federal detour terminated Nov 2024
Covered under the PeopleConnect master state docket MON-L-000484-24. PeopleConnect briefly removed to federal court (D.N.J. 1:24-cv-04227) in March 2024; the federal case was terminated in November 2024 and the state action is the operative forum.
Where the data comes from
- Court recordsCivil-suit dockets, divorce filings, liens, small claims.
- Criminal records
- Property recordsCounty recorder offices.
- PubRec / PeopleConnect data pipelineShared with TruthFinder, Instant Checkmate (pre-2020), and the rest of the PeopleConnect portfolio post-merger.
Named in incidents
- 20,000 New Jersey officers vs. 118 data brokers — the Daniel's Law class actions (2024)2024-02-13
PublicRecords.com is covered under the PeopleConnect Atlas docket along with Intelius, ZabaSearch, TruthFinder, and Classmates.
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