How ArrestFacts Collects, Sells, and Shares Your Personal Information
What is ArrestFacts?
Rain‑Street (operating via the domain rain‑street.org) is a U.S.‑based public‑records data broker, formerly known as ArrestFacts (arrestfacts.com / arrestfacts.org). It collects arrest records, mugshots, court proceedings and other criminal‑history information, aggregates those records tied to individuals, and makes them searchable online.
URL
rain‑street.org
Support
support@arrestfacts.com
Type of Data Broker
People Search
Aggression level
High
What ArrestFacts collects and how your privacy is at risk
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This company is listed in our Top 100 Most Aggressive Data Sellers based on sensitivity and reach.
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Collects and sells basic details like your name, address, phone number, and email address.
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Collects and shares information about your family members, relationships, and household makeup.
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Collects and monetizes data related to your income, spending habits, debts, and financial status.
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The company’s practices pose a heightened risk for identity theft, scams, discrimination, and profiling.
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Collects and distributes your work history, job titles, company affiliations, and professional connections.
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Tracks your browsing habits, online searches, shopping behaviors, and content preferences.
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Tracks and sells your location history, movements, and device-based geolocation data.
The risks shown are based on the types of personal data this company collects, sells, or shares.
Even limited data collection can expose you to serious privacy threats.
How to Opt Out and Remove Your Information from ArrestFacts
Rain‑Street offers an opt‑out pathway (via “Information Control” or “Contact” link) where individuals may request removal of their profile. However the process is manual, the removal is limited to this site and does not guarantee permanent deletion (especially if records are updated or republished). Users should treat the opt‑out as one component of a broader removal strategy.
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ArrestFacts Privacy Risks and How to Remove Your Personal Data
They scrape and aggregate your personal data:
Rain‑Street acquires records from publicly available arrest and court filings (police departments, jails, courts), other data brokers and online sources, then aggregates them into profiles by individual name and location.
They engage in automatic data harvesting:
While precise internal mechanisms are not fully disclosed, Rain‑Street appears to index and pull data from multiple jurisdictions automatically (including police press releases, booking logs, court record databases), and repackages that data for its searchable interface.
Opting out is possible, but removal is difficult:
Even after submitting an opt‑out request, your profile may remain online, reappear if the same data is republished, or persist in search engine caches. Because the origin is public record (arrest/booking), the broker may reacquire and relist it over time. Therefore using a service like mePrism to monitor multiple data brokers, detect re‑appearance and manage removal proactively can provide stronger protection than addressing a single site alone.
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