Now it has become easier to get a birth certificate. In 2025, you do not need to visit the corporation or state website. You ...

An original or certified U.S. birth certificate — or U.S. Certificate of Naturalization, if foreign born — may be presented with a valid U.S. government-issued photo identification for select ...

Cathy Pareto and Karla Arguello in August filed a lawsuit in federal court in Tallahassee asking that state officials with the department of Vital Statistics be ordered to list both parents on their ...

Similarly, the Florida health department’s Bureau of Vital Statistics’ denials of trans people’s requests for amended birth certificates do not reflect any new state law, and have resulted ...

In the past year, Florida’s health department has declined to amend gender markers on birth certificates for both transgender adults and minors. Although the agency says it is basing denials on ...

Republican lawmakers in Florida have repeatedly failed to pass legislation that aims to prevent transgender people from being able to obtain accurate birth certificates.

Officials confirmed thieves hacked the state's vital statistics system which processes birth and death certificates. Since the hack, those systems have been inaccessible.

Any baby born in Florida since June 28 might have to wait even longer to receive a birth certificate.

Any baby born in Florida since June 28 might have to wait even longer to receive a birth certificate.

The Florida Department of Health has been hit by a cyberattack, causing outages in their databases and disrupting critical services like issuing birth and death certificates. (WPEC) ...