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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I see people complain on this board all the time about Maryland plates at DC schools.... if the DMV can determine where people live why can't DCPS? Are enrollee families not required to show evidence of residency before being admitted?

- Sincerely, parent to 2019-2020 PK3 student showing my ignorance [/quote]

Yes you have to show proof of residency.

It seems one of the more common forms of residency fraud is that a family lives in Maryland but uses the address of a person living in DC (often a close relative) as their enrollment address. They may keep a DC driver's license with that address, register their car there, or have a utility bill in their name.

If you present legitimate documents that meet the requirement, how is the registrar to know if you are committing fraud.

The way people get caught is a) sloppy fraudulent documents b) someone reporting that they know Suzy Q lives elsewhere.

It's also complicated because many, many kids have parents who are divorced or separated or never married who live in separate jurisdictions. If you have one parent who legitimately lives in DC, the regulations say that is enough for you to enroll. The rules do not get into definitions of what constitutes residency, custodial parents and so forth. The rules have to be flexible to handle this reality and also enforce the law.

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In one case here they also were in receipt of benefits in DC, no way registrar would know. Look at the uproar on here about Ellington criticizing the investigation, sometimes you can't win for trying. A registrar is not a police officer they can only accept what is provided but not their job to also be detectives, if it passes the sniff test they have to take it. [/quote]

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