Your home address doesn't have to be findable by a birth family.
When a child's placement needs to stay private, or an adoption connection opens years later, your address can still surface on people-search sites in a few clicks. We find where it's published and start taking it down.
Start your free scan →A private placement doesn't stay private on the open web
You can have a file sealed, a caseworker withhold an address, or an adoption handled in confidence, and still have your home turn up on a people-search site. Those sites pull from property records, voter rolls, and utility hookups no one asked you about, then sell the result to anyone who searches a name. Here's where the exposure comes from.
A placement address surfaces through your household profile
When a child comes into your home, people-search sites tie them to your address the same way they tie any resident: through shared-address records. A birth-family member who searches a name can land on your front door, whether or not a court restricted contact. Protecting a foster care placement address starts with your own listing.
Open records make old connections findable
As more states give adult adoptees access to their original birth records, and as DNA and ancestry tools keep spreading, connections that were once confidential are easier to trace. A single data-broker listing is what turns a matched name into a current home address, so adoptee and birth-parent privacy now depends on what's published, not what's sealed.
The "relatives" section can out an adoption
People-search sites publish a "relatives" and "known associates" list built from shared addresses and public records. For adoptive families that list can quietly surface the link between a child and their birth family, or between a birth parent and the child they placed, without anyone choosing to reveal it.
A birth parent's own address is exposed too
Someone who placed a child for adoption years ago, under an expectation of privacy, is as findable as anyone else on people-search sites. Whether you want to be reachable one day or not, that's a decision you get to make, not a broker that published your address without asking.
Background reading:How people-search sites work · The data-broker stalking risk
Run a free scan to see where your family's home address is published across people-search sites right now.
Start your free scan →We find where your address is published, and go after each listing
We scan for everyone on your plan
We search people-search sites, search engines, and AI indexes for each household member you add. You get a clear picture of what's public about your family and exactly where it lives, before you decide what to remove.
We file removals on your address and the links around it
We submit removal requests for each member's listing and for the "relatives" and "known associates" sections that tie the household together. Cutting those links is how a home address stops leading a birth family back to your door.
We cover the household as one unit
Brokers rebuild a profile from whatever's left, so leaving one member listed re-exposes the rest. Family plans cover every member you add, so nothing stays in place to reconnect the record.
We keep watching and re-filing
Brokers re-list removed records, and new listings appear after a move or a records update. We monitor every covered member and re-submit removals as they come back, without you having to track it.
Why these families choose ongoing coverage over doing it by hand
| Manual opt-outs | Generic privacy tools | Delist.ai | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Household members covered | One at a time, separate process each | 1-2 typically | Full household |
| Address-history removal | Often missed | Current address only | Full history |
| "Relatives" and kinship links | You don't know they exist | Not targeted | Full profile |
| Re-listing detection | None | Limited | All members |
| Time investment | Hours per member, per month | Per-seat pricing adds up | One family plan |
| Places covered | 10-20 per person | 50-200 | Brokers, AI, search, dark web |
Common questions from foster and adoptive families
Protect your family's home address.
A free scan shows you where your family's personal information is published and how the household is connected across people-search sites.
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