PeopleFinders has been aggregating public records — court filings, property records, voter rolls, old phone listings — since 1999, by its own account, which means most people who search their own name run into it sooner or later. Its removal is free, needs no account, and unusually for a people-search site it doesn't gate anything behind a confirmation email: you fill in one form and PeopleFinders processes it. The trade is that the form wants more about you than most: a street address is required, and it asks for a date of birth too, so it can match you to the right record.
If you want the bigger picture before you file, our PeopleFinders.com profile covers what the site is, what a listing shows, and whether it's legit.
Step 1: Find your listing
Go to peoplefinders.com and search your name with a city and state to narrow the results. Open the listing that matches you and write down what it shows: the address it has for you, the birth year, the middle name if there is one. Those are the details the removal form asks you to reproduce, and a mismatch is the main reason a request comes back unfilled.
Step 2: Open the opt-out page
Go to peoplefinders.com/opt-out. Nothing on the site links there in one hop: from the homepage you have to take the footer's "Do Not Sell My Personal Information" link to /do-not-sell, then follow "Opt-Out Form" from there, so the direct URL saves you a step.
The page opens with two panels side by side, and only one of them removes anything. The left one, "Right to Opt-out," has a Next button that starts the removal. The right one, "Free Identity Monitoring," is a PeopleFinders product sign-up (dark-web scanning, breach alerts, a "Learn More" button), and clicking it takes you further from the thing you came for. The form you want is the one further down the page, headed Record Suppression Form.
Step 3: Fill in the Record Suppression Form
The form's own instruction is the whole flow in one sentence: "Please fill out the form below and then press the 'Submit' button. Based on the information you enter, we will locate your record and remove it from our system within 3 days."
First name, last name, street address, city and state are required; middle name, email, phone and date of birth are not, but the site is blunt about what happens if you leave them out: "Omitting or providing inaccurate information, such as adding a fake date of birth, will only hinder the opt-out process." Since the whole request turns on PeopleFinders finding your record, give it the details you copied in Step 1.
Two formatting rules that trip people up. Drop punctuation from names: the page's own example is that "James Brown, Jr." goes in as Brown Jr in the last-name field. And check everything before you commit, because the confirmation reads "You will not be able to modify the information once you click submit." Then tick the certification box ("I certify that I am the person, or an authorized agent of the person, to whom the information pertains") and press Submit.
There is no confirmation link to click. Older write-ups of this flow (ours included, until we re-walked it) describe an emailed verification link that gates the removal; PeopleFinders' own FAQ says the email arrives after the fact: "we will notify you that it is being processed and you will also receive a confirmation email."
Step 4: Wait 3 days, then re-check
PeopleFinders asks for three days, not three business days, and tells you how to verify: "Kindly allow a period of 3 days for our servers to refresh. Following this, to confirm the removal, please clear your browser's cache and then search for yourself on our site." If the listing is still there, its instruction is to file again with details that match the record more closely, since "if our system cannot match the provided information to a record, the information will not be removed."
If you'd rather not use the form at all, PeopleFinders' opt-out notice names a phone lane for the same request: (877) 551-9688.
Who runs PeopleFinders
For years the site was operated by Confi-Chek, Inc. of Sacramento, the company that settled an Illinois right-of-publicity class action over peoplefinders.com in 2024. California's current data broker registry lists the operator as Peoplefinders, LLC of San Francisco. An earlier version of this guide said PeopleFinders and USPhonebook shared a parent. The registry now lists USPhonebook under Mississippi Tornado Alley, LLC. Either way, they keep separate listings and separate opt-out forms, so clear both if you appear on both.
Two similarly named companies are easy to confuse with PeopleFinders, and neither is covered by this form. PeopleConnect is the network behind TruthFinder, Intelius, and Instant Checkmate; those sites share one removal portal, the PeopleConnect Suppression Center, and a PeopleFinders opt-out does nothing there. PeopleWhiz is a separate people-search site with its own listings and its own removal form. If the listing you found is on either of those, follow the guide for that site rather than this one.
Why it's worth checking back
PeopleFinders doesn't generate the data it shows. It collects it from thousands of public-record sources and republishes it, then refreshes that pool on an ongoing basis. The site says as much on the form itself: "If we receive new data connected to a record that we were unable to identify based on your original request, information you submit here may reappear on our site." An opt-out suppresses what's listed today; it doesn't stop a new address or phone number from feeding a fresh listing weeks or months later.
That recurring check is exactly what Delist My Data is built to automate — filing the removal once, then watching for you to reappear on PeopleFinders and the rest of the people-search sites, and filing it again without you having to remember. We're in pre-launch now; join the waitlist for founding-member access as we bring it online.