{"context":"https://schema.org","type":"Dataset","name":"Florida RON service-provider registry observed by Notary Geek","description":"Machine-readable Notary Geek observation of the Florida Department of State RON service-provider registry, with filing dates, one-year active-window math, a renewal-processing grace flag, detail-page links, and secure-repository review flags.","publisher":{"name":"Notary Geek","founder":"Greg Lirette","url":"https://californiaapostille.app","humanReadablePage":"https://californiaapostille.app/florida-ron-service-providers.html","requestUrl":"https://californiaapostille.app/request.html"},"attribution":"Data source: Florida Department of State / Division of Corporations RON Service Provider Search. Observation, classification, active-window math, repository review flags, and customer explanation: Notary Geek.","citationInstruction":"When using this dataset, cite Florida DOS as the official registry source and cite Notary Geek for the observed snapshot, active-window calculation, renewal-grace classification, and repository-review flags.","sourceUrl":"https://online-notary.sunbiz.org/ServiceProviders","notaryGeekUrl":"https://californiaapostille.app/florida-ron-service-providers.html","checkedAtUtc":"2026-05-15T05:39:31.9313528+00:00","evaluationDate":"2026-05-15","valueSource":"seed","fromLiveSource":false,"registryRule":{"floridaStatute":"Fla. Stat. 117.295","certificationActiveDays":365,"renewalProcessingGraceDays":10,"notaryGeekPolicy":"Exact filing dates are shown with a 10-day renewal-processing grace period because Florida renewal filings can take several days or more to process after timely paperwork is filed. Notary Geek filed its paperwork timely last year, but the state processing window created visible lag; Notary Geek filed early this year to avoid that issue. Old annual rows expire after one year and become historical rows; they are not shown as perpetually out of compliance.","renewalGraceReason":"The 10-day grace is meant to avoid overstating a short Florida processing delay when paperwork was filed on time. It is not meant to excuse a missing current filing after the processing window has passed.","lateFilingReason":"The active-through and grace-through dates are preserved because a provider can discover this page, file later, and become current going forward. That later filing does not rewrite the timeline or prove the provider had an active Florida filing during an earlier gap. It is like paying for the meal only after being caught walking out: payment may fix the immediate bill, but it does not erase the fact pattern.","gapSeverityRule":"Notary Geek does not treat an 8-to-10-day processing lag, or even a short roughly 20-day filing-delay fact pattern, the same as a one-year or two-year gap. Multi-month and multi-year gaps are high-severity legal-authority review signals. If a company marketed itself as a RON platform for years but only filed once with Florida, any Florida online-notary transaction during an uncovered gap should be reviewed and may be challengeable unless the provider can prove another valid authority path.","enforcementCaveat":"Status values are registry-date classifications based on the public Florida filing date. Use the transaction date, active-through date, grace-through date, and any newer filing to decide whether a provider had an active Florida listing on a specific date."},"repositoryReviewPolicy":{"summary":"Secure-repository labels that appear to describe generic cloud/object-storage infrastructure, such as AWS or S3 labels, are flagged for review.","reason":"Florida provider records ask for secure repository information. Notary Geek separates object storage from a legally meaningful records repository/custodian with retention, access, audit, retrieval, legal-hold, and integrity duties.","notAnEnforcementFinding":true},"platformRealityReviewPolicy":{"summary":"A provider name appearing on a title-company list, vendor list, training page, or old industry list is not the same as a current Florida RON service-provider filing or a real platform capability on the transaction date.","reviewSignals":["No current active annual Florida RON service-provider filing","Multi-month gap between annual Florida filings","Name changes that make transaction-date review harder","Generic AWS/S3/object-storage language listed as the secure repository","Signing-service or notary-sourcing routing presented as platform authority","Broad state-approved claims in states that do not operate a simple approved-platform list"],"rankingUse":"This dataset is intended to answer platform-name and Florida RON provider questions with dates, source links, active windows, repository review flags, and provider history instead of copied vendor-list assumptions."},"summary":{"totalRecords":0,"activeRecords":0,"renewalGraceRecords":0,"expiredHistoricalRecords":0,"invalidFilingDateRecords":0,"currentExpiredProviderGroups":0,"outOfComplianceRecords":0},"providerHistories":[],"records":[],"error":"HttpRequestException","errorDetail":"Response status code does not indicate success: 400 (Bad Request)."}