✓ Court-order-accepted

Already have an expungement order? We use it.

Your court-issued expungement, sealing, dismissal, or pardon order is the strongest legal lever you have for record removal online. We attach it to every CCPA submission. Optery and DeleteMe don't.

The problem: expunged in court ≠ removed online

State courts seal or expunge records under state law. That order binds the court, law enforcement, and most government databases. It does not automatically reach data brokers, mugshot sites, or Google's cached snippets. Those platforms got copies of the original record before it was sealed and have no court-mandated process to scrub them.

The result: your record is legally clean but your search results aren't. Employers and landlords running a background check still see what was supposed to be erased.

Federal background checks don't see expunged records — but the open internet does. Title VII, the FCRA, and most state ban-the-box laws assume the consumer-reporting layer is clean. They don't account for the data-broker and mugshot layer that lives outside the regulated reporting framework.

How we use your court order

If you upload your expungement order during onboarding (or attach it later), we file it as a structured record in our system. From that point on, every removal request we send on your behalf cites it specifically.

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You upload the order

Court name, case number(s), petition number, statute, order date. PDF or image of the signed order if you have one. We treat the order as evidence of your legal status, not a marketing artifact.

2

We embed it in every CCPA email

Each removal request to a broker references your specific order — court, petition number, statute, sealed cases — in the body of the email. The broker can verify against public court records. This is materially harder for them to ignore than a generic "please remove me" template.

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We escalate when they ignore it

If a broker does not respond within 45 days, we escalate via second-tier email referencing both CCPA non-compliance and the court order. After 60 days, we flag the case for manual legal review and dispute-letter generation.

What that actually looks like

A real CCPA email we send on behalf of a customer with a sealed New Mexico case includes a paragraph that reads roughly like this:

Subject: CCPA Deletion Request — [Customer Name] This email is a verified consumer privacy request under the California Consumer Privacy Act (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.100 et seq.) and applicable state-equivalent statutes. The subject of this request holds a court-issued expungement order: Court: Second Judicial District Court, Bernalillo County, New Mexico Case Numbers: D-202-CR-2008-05315 Petition: 2024-EXP-001293 Statute: NMSA § 29-3A-3 (Criminal Record Expungement Act) Order Date: 2024-XX-XX Under New Mexico law, the records associated with these case numbers are legally sealed. Continued publication, sale, or display of these records by your service constitutes ongoing harm to the subject and may expose your company to liability under § 29-3A-7. We request immediate deletion under both the CCPA and applicable state expungement law.

That paragraph does not appear in generic privacy-tool removal emails. We've audited Optery's and DeleteMe's send patterns — they reference CCPA, but they do not reference the customer's actual judicial order. That's the difference.

Compared to other removal services

Optery / DeleteMe / Incogni

Generic CCPA template. Same email body for every customer. No reference to your court order, even if you have one. Some let you upload an order — none surface it in the actual outbound email body.

FixMyRecord

Your specific court (court name, case numbers, petition number, statute, order date) is embedded in the request. Brokers can verify against the public court record. Materially harder to ignore.

What kinds of orders qualify

If you're unsure which category your order falls into, upload whatever you have. We'll classify it.

Don't have an order yet?

That's fine. You don't need an expungement order to get useful removal coverage from FixMyRecord — your CCPA rights as a California or in-scope-state resident, plus our broker opt-out automation, still cover most data-broker exposures. The court order is a force multiplier, not a prerequisite.

If you're eligible for expungement and haven't filed yet, our free eligibility checker can tell you what's possible in your state. Once you have the order, attach it and we'll re-run your removal sweep with the order embedded.

Legal context. CCPA gives California residents (and via state-equivalent statutes, residents of several other states) a right to deletion. A court-issued expungement or sealing order does not directly bind a private data broker, but it is admissible evidence of the legal status of your record and materially strengthens the deletion demand. Removal outcomes depend on broker compliance and are not guaranteed for any single site; see our refund guarantee for the data-broker layer.

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