A sovereign credential for Florida's workforce
Florida already leads the nation in workforce credentials — hundreds of thousands issued, each one signed by the state. The next problem is portability: a credential is only worth as much as the places it travels. Trua makes a Florida credential self-verifying and holder-owned — trusted anywhere, forever, without depending on a central state registry.
The next problem
Right now, a Florida workforce credential is trusted because the state's name is on it. That works beautifully — inside Florida, today. But workers move to other states, change industries, and present that credential years from now, to an employer whose first reader is an AI screening tool. The real question isn't how do we issue more credentials — Florida answered that. It's how does a credential a Floridian earned stay verifiable everywhere, forever, without depending on the office that issued it.
Two ways to build it
A state-owned wallet backed by a statewide, state-run credential registry. You verify a credential by checking it against the government's index. The moment the registry is what makes the credential trustworthy, the citizen doesn't own it — the state does. Portability lasts as long as the database stays funded and online, and every employer and other state has to be able to reach a state system to trust it.
The citizen owns the wallet. The credential carries its own proof — a cryptographic signature anyone can verify on the spot, the way your phone already checks a software update is genuine. No lookup in a government registry for the everyday case, no permission from Tallahassee. Built on open standards, it works in any wallet and is honored by any employer — none of whom has to integrate with, or even reach, a state system to trust it.
The state's role, clean
Florida sponsors the wallet for its workforce and is the issuer — the authoritative source only a government can be. Florida is also a relying party when it hires. But Florida never owns the network, and it doesn't need to. That is limited government written directly into the architecture: the data belongs to the Floridian, there is no central registry to breach or defund, and the credential outlives the administration that issued it.
The state signs each credential with a key only it holds. Authoritative — the one job in this domain only a government can do well.
The state stands the wallet up for participating workers. It funds the on-ramp — not a registry every employer must depend on.
When the state hires, it verifies a presented credential's signature on the spot — the same way any employer does. No special access required.
For Florida agencies & employers
Participating in the program is simple, because the trust is in the credential, not in a system you have to connect to.
Sign your agency up below. We onboard you as a verifier in the program — no infrastructure to stand up on your side.
The worker presents their wallet. You confirm the credential's signature is genuine and current — instantly, offline-capable, no registry call.
A credential the worker already earned satisfies your requirement. No re-verification, no duplicate files, no data you now have to secure and retain.
A concrete example — the Drug-Free Workplace Act
Florida's Drug-Free Workplace Act (Fla. Stat. §112.0455) defines exactly what a trustworthy drug screen is for public employers: a state-licensed laboratory, chain-of-custody handling, and GC/MS confirmation of any positive. It also protects the worker: results are confidential and may not be released without the worker's written consent. Two things the statute gets right — and one gap it leaves open.
The statute has no provision for a result to move between employers. So a worker re-screens at every role, and each result sits locked in one agency's file. The rigor is real; the reuse is impossible.
The fix — a statute-grade screen, made portable. A screen conducted to the §112.0455 standard is issued as a holder-owned credential the worker carries. It presents the same certified result at the next role or agency — and, honoring the statute's own confidentiality rule, it is disclosed only on the worker's consent. Portability and confidentiality, at the same time. (On our roadmap for the Florida program.)
§112.0455 governs public employers; the model extends naturally to Florida's private-sector Drug-Free Workplace Program (Ch. 440) on the same architecture. Trua is not affiliated with or endorsed by the State of Florida; this describes a proposed program and an independent verification service.
Let Florida prove the citizen never needed one. A credential whose validity depends on a database staying online isn't infrastructure — it's a souvenir. Make it outlast the administration.