Privacy & New Media

Chicago Tribune

Becky Yerak

March 13, 2017

Peter Gabiola thought he was on the right track in 2013. He was out of prison and had been off parole for retail theft for more than a year when he started a new job with a Buffalo Grove sales and marketing firm.

But about an hour after he started, someone at the business Googled his name and saw that he was listed as being on parole. The company fired him immediately, he said.

The Illinois Department of Corrections had removed his records from its website. Commercial website Mugshots.com, however, still featured the information.

After having two more job offers rescinded, Gabiola typed his name into Google himself, saw his page on Mugshots.com, and contacted another site, Unpublisharrest.com, to try to get it taken down. He said the site, which only offers its service for Mugshots.com, told him it would cost $15,000 to attempt to scrub the information — with no guarantee that his profile would be removed.

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