diff --git a/backend/src/v1/staging_complaint/staging_complaint.service.ts b/backend/src/v1/staging_complaint/staging_complaint.service.ts
index ac04b89bd..94512355d 100644
--- a/backend/src/v1/staging_complaint/staging_complaint.service.ts
+++ b/backend/src/v1/staging_complaint/staging_complaint.service.ts
@@ -102,8 +102,14 @@ export class StagingComplaintService {
   // Given two WebEOCComplaint objects, compare them and return true if they're the same.  This function
   // ignores some attributes (specifically the back_number_of* attributes)
   _compareWebEOCComplaints = (complaint1: WebEOCComplaint, complaint2: WebEOCComplaint): boolean => {
-    // Attributes to ignore
-    const attributesToIgnore = ["back_number_of_days", "back_number_of_hours", "back_number_of_minutes", "entrydate"];
+    // Attributes to ignore, if these are changed we don't consider it an edit
+    const attributesToIgnore = [
+      "back_number_of_days",
+      "back_number_of_hours",
+      "back_number_of_minutes",
+      "entrydate",
+      "status",
+    ];
 
     // Omit the attributes to ignore
     const complaint1Filtered = omit(complaint1, attributesToIgnore);
diff --git a/migrations/migrations/R__0.20.0_edit_complaint_using_webeoc_complaint.sql b/migrations/migrations/R__0.20.0_edit_complaint_using_webeoc_complaint.sql
index e26f626a3..b4b3f5e34 100644
--- a/migrations/migrations/R__0.20.0_edit_complaint_using_webeoc_complaint.sql
+++ b/migrations/migrations/R__0.20.0_edit_complaint_using_webeoc_complaint.sql
@@ -251,13 +251,6 @@ BEGIN
 	    WHERE complaint_identifier = _complaint_identifier;
 	    update_edit_ind = true;
   end if;
-
-  if (_edit_complaint_status_code <> current_complaint_record.complaint_status_code) then 
-	    UPDATE complaint
-	    SET complaint_status_code  = _edit_complaint_status_code
-	    WHERE complaint_identifier = _complaint_identifier;
-	    update_edit_ind = true;
-  end if;
    
   -- the update caused an edit, set the audit fields
   if (update_edit_ind) then
diff --git a/migrations/migrations/R__update-insert-complaint-from-staging.sql b/migrations/migrations/R__update-insert-complaint-from-staging.sql
index 0b4e8f389..f4a052918 100644
--- a/migrations/migrations/R__update-insert-complaint-from-staging.sql
+++ b/migrations/migrations/R__update-insert-complaint-from-staging.sql
@@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ OR REPLACE FUNCTION public.insert_complaint_from_staging (_complaint_identifier
 
       IF _violation_code = 'WASTE' OR _violation_code = 'PESTICDE' THEN
         UPDATE PUBLIC.complaint
-        SET    owned_by_agency_code = 'EPO'
+        SET    owned_by_agency_code = 'EPO', complaint_status_code = 'OPEN'
         WHERE  complaint_identifier = _complaint_identifier;
       END IF;