diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index 2cc337335..ea24566ab 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -114,7 +114,6 @@ group :test do
 end
 
 group :development do
-  gem 'annotate'
   gem 'brakeman', require: false
   gem 'haml-lint'
   gem 'letter_opener_web'
diff --git a/Gemfile.lock b/Gemfile.lock
index d6e81d6e9..cc46335aa 100644
--- a/Gemfile.lock
+++ b/Gemfile.lock
@@ -101,9 +101,6 @@ GEM
     aes_key_wrap (1.1.0)
     after_party (1.11.2)
     anchored (1.1.0)
-    annotate (3.2.0)
-      activerecord (>= 3.2, < 8.0)
-      rake (>= 10.4, < 14.0)
     ast (2.4.2)
     attr_required (1.0.1)
     axe-core-api (4.2.1)
@@ -813,7 +810,6 @@ DEPENDENCIES
   administrate-field-enum
   after_party
   anchored
-  annotate
   axe-core-rspec
   bcrypt
   bootsnap (>= 1.4.4)
diff --git a/lib/tasks/auto_annotate_models.rake b/lib/tasks/auto_annotate_models.rake
deleted file mode 100644
index c972ee747..000000000
--- a/lib/tasks/auto_annotate_models.rake
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,59 +0,0 @@
-# NOTE: only doing this in development as some production environments (Heroku)
-# NOTE: are sensitive to local FS writes, and besides -- it's just not proper
-# NOTE: to have a dev-mode tool do its thing in production.
-if Rails.env.development?
-  require 'annotate'
-  task :set_annotation_options do
-    # You can override any of these by setting an environment variable of the
-    # same name.
-    Annotate.set_defaults(
-      'active_admin'                => 'false',
-      'additional_file_patterns'    => [],
-      'routes'                      => 'false',
-      'models'                      => 'true',
-      'position_in_routes'          => 'before',
-      'position_in_class'           => 'before',
-      'position_in_test'            => 'before',
-      'position_in_fixture'         => 'before',
-      'position_in_factory'         => 'before',
-      'position_in_serializer'      => 'before',
-      'show_foreign_keys'           => 'false',
-      'show_complete_foreign_keys'  => 'false',
-      'show_indexes'                => 'false',
-      'simple_indexes'              => 'false',
-      'model_dir'                   => 'app/models',
-      'root_dir'                    => '',
-      'include_version'             => 'false',
-      'require'                     => '',
-      'exclude_tests'               => 'true',
-      'exclude_fixtures'            => 'true',
-      'exclude_factories'           => 'true',
-      'exclude_serializers'         => 'true',
-      'exclude_scaffolds'           => 'true',
-      'exclude_controllers'         => 'true',
-      'exclude_helpers'             => 'true',
-      'exclude_sti_subclasses'      => 'false',
-      'ignore_model_sub_dir'        => 'false',
-      'ignore_columns'              => nil,
-      'ignore_routes'               => nil,
-      'ignore_unknown_models'       => 'true',
-      'hide_limit_column_types'     => 'integer,bigint,boolean',
-      'hide_default_column_types'   => 'json,jsonb,hstore',
-      'skip_on_db_migrate'          => 'false',
-      'format_bare'                 => 'true',
-      'format_rdoc'                 => 'false',
-      'format_yard'                 => 'false',
-      'format_markdown'             => 'false',
-      'sort'                        => 'false',
-      'force'                       => 'false',
-      'frozen'                      => 'false',
-      'classified_sort'             => 'true',
-      'trace'                       => 'false',
-      'wrapper_open'                => nil,
-      'wrapper_close'               => nil,
-      'with_comment'                => 'true'
-    )
-  end
-
-  Annotate.load_tasks
-end