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title: "Does expungement remove my record from the internet?"
description: "No. An expungement order reaches the court, the police, the Attorney General, and the Bureau of Criminal Identification. It does not reach websites. Mugshot sites, old news articles, social media..."
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date: 2026-07-18
modified: 2026-09-30
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# Does expungement remove my record from the internet?

No. An expungement order reaches the court, the police, the Attorney General, and the Bureau of Criminal Identification. It does not reach websites. Mugshot sites, old news articles, social media posts, and private data brokers that copied your case before the order are outside the court's control, and they will keep showing the case until someone asks them to stop. The certified copy of your expungement order is the tool for that. Many background check companies will remove a record when shown the order, and some mugshot sites have removal processes. News organizations are not required to take down accurate reporting, though some will update old stories on request. Search results take time to catch up after a page changes. Start with the companies an employer or landlord is most likely to use, since those reports are the ones that cost people jobs and apartments.