Florida Mugshot Removal
Backed by Florida Law

If your arrest photo is on a commercial mugshot website, Florida law is on your side. Under Florida Statute § 901.43, you can demand that any person or entity that publishes booking photos for commercial purposes remove yours — and it does not matter how your case ended. Dismissed, dropped, pled, even convicted: the right to demand removal applies to everyone.

Once a proper written demand is delivered, the site has 10 days to comply. After that, it faces a civil penalty of up to $1,000 per day, plus your attorney's fees and court costs. If it removes the photo and later republishes it, the penalty rises to $5,000 per day.

The statute is powerful, but it is technical. The demand must include proof of your identity, identify the specific photo and where it appears, and be sent by registered mail to the registered agent of the publisher. Mugshot site operators know most people get these details wrong — and they ignore defective demands.

I prepare and serve statutory demands correctly the first time, track the 10-day clock, and when a site does not comply, I pursue the daily penalties and fees the statute provides. Sites respond very differently when non-compliance starts costing them money.

• 1Free confidential assessment. We locate every copy of your mugshot across websites and search engines and map the fastest removal path for each.
• 2Statutory demands and takedowns. Formal § 901.43 demands, site removal procedures, DMCA notices, and dismissal/expungement documentation — whichever tool fits each site.
• 3Search engine cleanup. Once sources are down, I force Google to drop the cached results and images so your name searches come back clean. See removing your mugshot from Google.
• 4Monitoring. If the photo reappears, I act immediately — and republication after a statutory demand is where the $5,000-per-day penalty applies.

Removal under § 901.43 takes the photo off commercial sites, but the underlying arrest record remains public. If you qualify, sealing or expunging your Florida record through FDLE and the courts erases the source itself — making any future publication legally actionable and giving you the right to lawfully deny the arrest in most circumstances. I handle the FDLE Certificate of Eligibility application and court petition as part of a complete cleanup, and can tell you in one call whether you likely qualify.

My office is in Dania Beach, and I work with clients across Broward County, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach County, and the rest of Florida — Fort Lauderdale, Miami, West Palm Beach, Orlando, Tampa, Jacksonville, and everywhere in between. Mugshot removal is handled remotely, so wherever you are in Florida, the process is the same: one flat fee, every site, with a Florida attorney's authority behind every demand.