How to remove yourself from LexisNexis
LexisNexis Risk Solutions holds identity, insurance, and risk data used for fraud checks and background screening. Consumer removal is limited to specific grounds (e.g. safety concerns or legal rights), but suppression is possible.
Open LexisNexis’s opt-out page →Opens on their site. Come back here for the steps.
- Holder
- LexisNexis
- How you come off
- Online formyou submit it
- They may ask for
- Nothing beyond the name and address they already hold.
- Legal deadline
- Not set by statute here
- Re-lists
- No — once it is off, it stays off.
- Time it takes
- 15–20 minutes
- Difficulty
- Hard
What LexisNexis holds about you
- Identity records
- Address history
- Risk/insurance data
How to get removed
- Open the LexisNexis opt-out page.
- Select the basis for your request (e.g. safety, legal right).
- Complete the form with your identifying details and submit.
Risk-data broker; removal limited to certain grounds.
Requests on safety grounds (e.g. stalking risk, public-facing roles) are the most likely to succeed.
Why you come back
This one does not re-acquire, so a completed removal holds. Most do not: the holders that buy public records re-buy them about every four months, which is why the rest of this register is re-checked rather than ticked off.
Opt-out processes change. If a step no longer matches what you see, tell us and we’ll update it.