How to remove a search engine result with information about me and my disability

The-Pimp

There is a .gov website of a court ruling pertaining to me and a disability I used to have. It is one of the first search engine results when searching for my name.

The website contains information contains my full name, where I used to live, and a disability I had as a child. It is a court ruling found on the Department of Human Resources website with information about litigation about my mom fraudulently cashing my disability checks when I moved out of state to live with my dad in Ohio when I was a kid. It's been up there for quite some time and I don't want someone like an employer looking at my previous medical history. Isn't this information supposed to be kept private?

TychoCelchuuu

I really have no clue, but court records are supposed to be public, just like the actual trial, because otherwise nobody could ever know what the laws are.

embrik

Here's what Google has to offer/say. Hopefully this will help you out.

necroSYS

You'd have to get a lawyer to get the DoHR website to redact the specific information about your disability from the case file.

They aren't going to do it based on a cleverly-crafted cease-and-desist from Chuck U. Farley.

DrZiplock

I know this isn't the easiest advice to hear, but you should contact a lawyer.

You're playing in a rather gray area in terms of if it's privileged information. It went to court and in most cases those can become public records. But it's a medical case, I don't really know.

I can certainly understand your concern. Still, just go talk with a lawyer. I'm sure having it removed would be lots of red tape.