Florida Judge Orders DHS To Restore Citizenship Database For Four States
Two district courts issued contradictory orders on the same federal database, forcing DHS into a technical workaround that restores bulk and SSN search only for the four settlement states while the features stay disabled everywhere else.
Two district courts issued contradictory orders on the same federal database, forcing DHS into a technical workaround that restores bulk and SSN search only for the four settlement states while the features stay disabled everywhere else.
On July 13 DHS restored bulk-upload and SSN-search features of the SAVE system for Florida, Ohio, Iowa and Indiana after a July 7 federal order enforced a 20-year settlement.
Why it matters: States use the restored features to verify citizenship on voter rolls and professional licenses; the conflict determines whether non-citizens remain on the rolls that decide ballots and household representation.
Date to watch: July 20 D.C. hearing on whether the four-state carve-out violates the nationwide vacatur
Sources:
- U.S. District Court N.D. Fla. Order Doc. 45, State of Florida et al. v. DHS (2026-07-07)
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flnd.527782/gov.uscourts.flnd.527782.45.0.pdf - CourtListener docket State of Florida et al. v. DHS No. 3:24-cv-00509 (2026-07-07)
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69271601/state-of-florida-v-department-of-homeland-security/ - CourtListener docket League of Women Voters v. DHS No. 1:25-cv-03501 (2026-06-22)
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71499795/league-of-women-voters-v-us-department-of-homeland-security/ - DHS USCIS DOGE Overhaul of SAVE Database release (2025-04-22)
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/04/22/dhs-uscis-doge-overhaul-systematic-alien-verification-entitlements-database - U.S. District Court D.D.C. Order vacating SAVE modifications (2026-06-22)
https://epic.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/LWV-ordr.pdf - Democracy Docket report of DHS July 13 status report and technical workaround (2026-07-13)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/dhs-relaunches-voter-purge-database-in-4-red-states/
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