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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s a gray area, especially if parents continue using the original address with DCPS. But if you own residential DC real estate that you don’t formally rent out, do what you want when registering in boundary. Just make sure that you pick up mail at the property you use for school residency regularly. In our experience, things will work out if you cover your bases on the residency docs and mail collection fronts. Asking permission from DCPS is the last thing you want to do, OP. Opening that can of worms would be naive and dumb. [/quote]

Translation:  If you commit residency fraud, don’t tell anyone and cover your tracks.

Same advice that criminals follow.[/quote]

So get those boundary cheating criminals arrested then. Report them! Lobby for them to be busted, fine, jailed.

So nobody have anything better to worry about?  These parents own these properties so they pick up mail at them if they wish. For all you know, they lived in the properties whose addresses they use for enrollment at the time of enrollment. Yawn. [/quote]

DC, after year of complaints about out of state students, finally cracked down in roughly 2015-2016.

A Maryland couple who fraudulently enrolled three children in top D.C. public schools for a decade must pay the city more than $500,000 in fines, Attorney General Karl Racine announced Thursday.
The parents, both D.C. police officers, lived at various locations in Maryland and Virginia while their children attended D.C. schools between 2003 and 2013, according to the attorney general’s office. The husband owned a home in Northeast that he rented to tenants, using that address to enroll the couple’s children in some of the city’s most coveted public schools — a violation of city law.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/md-family-that-sent-kids-to-dc-public-schools-must-pay-more-than-500000-fine/2016/07/28/b7f3656c-54eb-11e6-b7de-dfe509430c39_story.html

Seems like you can't claim an address that you rent out as your primary residence.  As quoted, a violation of city laws.

The larger problem is that DC looked into this once and tried to make a statement with fines.  The problem is there is no enforcement now.  [/quote]

Wow.  Some posters on this thread could be looking at hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines.  I wonder if the AG’s office is reading this?[/quote]

That was residency fraud. They lived in Maryland. [/quote]

+1. Posters are still conflating residency and boundary. They can and do come after residency fraud. They do not come after boundary fraud.[/quote]

You’re really missing the point. YES DC cares most about residency fraud. Which means that they will increasingly investigate it, including by using more sophisticated data approaches that identify students who do not appear to live at the OSSE provided address through matching up other addresses used by the parent in many other datasets (mail, subscriptions, court records, car registrations, etc.) Once they suspect you listed a fake address what do you think happens? They investigate you. Because you listed a fake address and they do not know if you live in DC or MD. Because again, to repeat, you listed a fake address. And this is the point where you decide whether to double down on your lie or confess that you lied on the form, the form that you signed and attested to its truthfulness. [/quote]

You are missing the point. There is no consequence for this for boundary fraud, except possibly losing your feeder pattern. There is a consequence for residency fraud.[/quote]

There is absolutely a consequence for putting a false address on the enrollment form. [/quote]

What is it?

Here are 45 pages of process and procedures for verifying *residency* -- absolutely nothing on verifying if you live in a boundary.

https://osse.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/osse/publication/attachments/OER_Handbook_02242023.pdf[/quote]

When you sign the form you swear under “penalty of perjury” that the information and documents you submitted are true. Again, if you think you can just … lie … on a government form that includes an attestation like that, godspeed! I don’t think it’s incredibly likely you’ll get caught but you should understand what you are doing. [/quote]

Actually, the school official signs under penalty of perjury, not the parent/guardian/custodian.

But it is still a crime to provide false statements and/or documents under, for example, § 22–2405.

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