Radaris

What Radaris knows about you

Radaris compiles one of the more detailed profiles of any free people-search site. Search your name and you'll see addresses, phones, relatives, neighbors, social media accounts, and sometimes employment details on a single page. They aggregate from public records, scraped social media, and commercial broker feeds. The free preview is generous; the paid report fills in the gaps.

The site is registered in the US but operates partly through entities tied overseas, which has historically made enforcement messy. The FTC went after them in 2023 over how they marketed opt-outs that didn't actually remove people.

Why it matters if you're on the job

Radaris is a one-stop dossier. It links your home address, your spouse, your parents, your prior addresses, your social handles, and people you've worked with. For a sworn officer, the profile reads like an open-source intelligence brief.

The neighbor and associate listings make the family threat angle real. Search your spouse and your address shows up. Search your parent and your address shows up. Search the address itself and a list of everyone who's ever lived there comes back, which works the other way too — anyone who's been targeting one of your relatives can land at your door.

Radaris is also one of the more aggressive sites at re-aggregating after opt-out. Treat it as a recurring task, not a one-time fix.

How to opt out

The Radaris opt-out is the rough one. The flow has shifted multiple times — at various points it's required account creation, ID verification, or a phone call. The current path is account-based: create an account with the email tied to the profile, verify, then claim and delete.

That's a chunk of friction for a single broker. Plan on the full flow taking 15-20 minutes, and re-checking inside 60 days because re-listings are quick.

Steps are in the optOutSteps field above.

How long until you're back

Four months on average, sometimes less. Radaris re-aggregates from upstream feeds aggressively. After a move, expect the new address inside 30-60 days.

If you ever uploaded ID verification to a prior Radaris opt-out, that data was retained until the FTC consent order; the deletion is now required but trust-but-verify applies.

What we do that's faster

We handle the Radaris account creation, the email verification, and the deletion ourselves. We re-check every two weeks because Radaris is a known re-list site. When you reappear, we file again the same day. Same drill across 200+ broker sites in parallel — Radaris is one of the ones that earns the continuous sweep. When Radaris re-aggregates a few weeks after removal, recurring re-list defense across the people-search stack catches it on the next pass.