8 Best Criminal Record Removal Services for 2026

A criminal record is the hardest version of this problem, and the reason is simple: unlike an arrest that led nowhere, a conviction is a finding. The state examined the matter, reached a conclusion, and published it because the law requires that convictions be a matter of public record.

Which means a page promising to remove your criminal record is, in most cases, promising something nobody can deliver. Our main guide covers court records broadly. This page is about what is genuinely achievable when a conviction stands, and the eight companies that work in that space honestly.

Three different things get called a criminal record

They behave completely differently and buyers routinely conflate them.

The state’s own record. Held by the court and the relevant agencies. Not removable by any company. It changes only by court order, through sealing or expungement, and eligibility depends entirely on your state, the offense and how much time has passed.

Private copies. Background check services, court record aggregators and people search sites that bought or scraped the data. These are removable, because they are private publishers with no obligation to carry it, and this is where the achievable work lives.

Media coverage. News reports of the case. Governed by editorial judgment, not public records law, and handled as news rather than as records.

Nearly everyone arriving here believes they need the first and can actually be helped with the second and third.

What determines whether anything is possible

Four factors, in order of weight.

Whether the conviction stands. A vacated, overturned or pardoned conviction changes the position entirely. So does a case that ended in a lesser disposition than the record suggests.

Eligibility for sealing or expungement. Many states allow petitions after a waiting period, with eligibility varying by offense class. This is criminal defense work, not something any company on this page performs, and it is the highest-value step available to most people.

Accuracy. A private site reporting charges that were dropped, an incorrect offense class, or a case belonging to someone with a similar name is publishing something false, and false is a different legal category from unflattering.

Age. Not a legal lever, but a practical one. A twelve year old record on an aggregator that has changed ownership twice is often removed with less resistance than a recent one.

The honest ceiling

If your conviction stands, is accurately reported, and is not eligible for sealing where you live, the realistic outcome is this: private copies cleared, search listings for those copies cleared, and the state’s own record still public but no longer the first thing a search returns.

That is a meaningful result. It is not erasure, and a company describing it as erasure is setting you up to feel cheated by work that actually succeeded.

The eight

Minc Law

Internet defamation firm in Cleveland, founded 2018, litigating in 26 states and 5 countries with more than 200,000 pieces of content removed. Relevant where a private site is reporting the record inaccurately, which converts the matter from a records question into a defamation one. Not a criminal defense firm; does not petition for sealing.

National Security Law Firm

Washington DC, all 50 states, flat 3,000 dollars per item refunded in full if the item is not removed or de-indexed. Handles court records, dockets and government announcements alongside news and mugshots. Where the aggregator count is small this prices cleanly; where it is large it does not.

RM Warner Law

Scottsdale, over a decade in internet defamation, offering demand letters through to court ordered removal. On the public record and worth raising: the 2018 State Bar of Arizona investigation of the partners over lawsuits naming apparently fictitious defendants, which resulted in discipline for two attorneys.

Kohrman Jackson and Krantz

Content removal group inside a business firm dating to 1918, national, retainer billed. The reason to choose this shape is a record entangled with something else live, a professional license, an employment dispute, an immigration matter, where the removal strategy has to fit the position taken elsewhere.

Guaranteed Removals

Canadian, since 2009, covering criminal record and mugshot related removal alongside search results, news and personal information, on pay after results terms across most removal work. The right structure for the private copy layer, where outcomes vary per site and no company controls compliance. Their published guidance also tells buyers to attempt self removal first.

NetReputation

Sarasota, founded 2014, running removal, suppression, monitoring and privacy work together. Criminal records propagate into people search profiles that then rank independently, so a single engagement across both layers avoids the common outcome where the record is cleared and the profiles carrying it are not.

Reputation Resolutions

Colorado, founded 2013, accredited with the Better Business Bureau since 2014 with a reported clean complaint history. Handles court and public record takedowns with removal billed pay for performance and retained work billed separately, which is the correct split when part of the job will succeed and part cannot. Independent review volume is thin.

Top Shelf Reputation

Our own service. On a standing conviction we say at the first call which copies are removable and which are not, and we quote the removable list rather than the whole problem, because quoting the whole problem implies we can solve all of it.

We do not file sealing or expungement petitions and cannot change the state’s record. Where you may be eligible, a criminal defense attorney in your state is worth far more than we are, and that referral costs you nothing from us.

Against us: no published pricing.

Reference

Company	Type	Private copies	Inaccurate reporting	Pricing
Minc Law	Law firm	Yes	Yes, as defamation	Retainer
National Security Law Firm	Law firm	Yes	Yes	3,000 per item, refunded on failure
RM Warner Law	Law firm	Yes	Yes	On request
Kohrman Jackson and Krantz	Law firm	Yes	Yes	Retainer
Guaranteed Removals	Agency	Yes	No	Pay after results
NetReputation	Agency	Yes	No	Quote
Reputation Resolutions	Agency	Yes	No	Pay for performance
Top Shelf Reputation	Agency	Yes	No	On request

No row in this table can remove a standing conviction from the state’s own record, and any company claiming otherwise is describing one of the other two categories while letting you hear the first.

The order that gets the most from this

1. Ask a criminal defense attorney in your state whether you are eligible for sealing or expungement. Free consultations are common and the answer changes everything below.
2. If eligible, pursue that first. Removal work is far easier with an order in hand.
3. Check every private copy for inaccuracy. Dropped charges reported as convictions are common and are a stronger argument than any takedown request.
4. Then clear the private copies, and expect the state record to remain.

Sealing eligibility varies substantially by state and nothing here substitutes for advice from an attorney licensed where the case was heard. Notes on individual aggregators are in the blog, and a case review will tell you what is realistically removable before you spend anything.