diff --git a/app/models/admin_dashboard_data.rb b/app/models/admin_dashboard_data.rb
index 5004b3dfabb..4f4ff28022b 100644
--- a/app/models/admin_dashboard_data.rb
+++ b/app/models/admin_dashboard_data.rb
@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@ class AdminDashboardData
       send_consumer_email_check,
       title_check,
       site_description_check,
-      access_password_removal,
       site_contact_username_check,
       notification_email_check
     ].compact
@@ -187,19 +186,4 @@ class AdminDashboardData
     I18n.t('dashboard.ruby_version_warning') if RUBY_VERSION == '2.0.0' and RUBY_PATCHLEVEL < 247
   end
 
-  # TODO: generalize this method of putting i18n keys with expiry in redis
-  #       that should be reported on the admin dashboard:
-  def access_password_removal
-    if i18n_key = $redis.get(AdminDashboardData.access_password_removal_key)
-      I18n.t(i18n_key)
-    end
-  end
-
-  def self.report_access_password_removal
-    $redis.setex access_password_removal_key, 172_800, 'dashboard.access_password_removal'
-  end
-
-  def self.access_password_removal_key
-    'dash-data:access_password_removal'
-  end
 end
diff --git a/config/locales/server.en.yml b/config/locales/server.en.yml
index 5e1ca7be16a..3d6f75a947d 100644
--- a/config/locales/server.en.yml
+++ b/config/locales/server.en.yml
@@ -604,7 +604,6 @@ en:
     title_nag: "Enter the name of your site. Update title in <a href='/admin/site_settings'>Site Settings</a>."
     site_description_missing: "Enter a one sentence description of your site that will appear in search results. Update site_description in <a href='/admin/site_settings'>Site Settings</a>."
     consumer_email_warning: "Your site is configured to use Gmail (or another consumer email service) to send email. <a href='http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=166852' target='_blank'>Gmail limits how many emails you can send</a>. Consider using an email service provider like mandrill.com to ensure email deliverability."
-    access_password_removal: "Your site was using the access_password setting, which has been removed. The login_required and must_approve_users settings have been enabled, which should be used instead. You can change them in the <a href='/admin/site_settings'>Site Settings</a>. Be sure to <a href='/admin/users/list/pending'>approve users in the Pending Users list</a>. (This message will go away after 2 days.)"
     site_contact_username_warning: "Enter the name of a friendly staff user account to send important automated private messages from, such as the new user welcome, flag warnings, etc. Update site_contact_username in <a href='/admin/site_settings'>Site Settings</a>."
     notification_email_warning: "Notification emails are not being sent from a valid email address on your domain; email delivery will be erratic and unreliable. Please set notification_email to a valid local email address in <a href='/admin/site_settings'>Site Settings</a>."
 
diff --git a/db/migrate/20130625170842_remove_access_password.rb b/db/migrate/20130625170842_remove_access_password.rb
index dba45885c74..31c5a83d4a5 100644
--- a/db/migrate/20130625170842_remove_access_password.rb
+++ b/db/migrate/20130625170842_remove_access_password.rb
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ class RemoveAccessPassword < ActiveRecord::Migration
       execute "DELETE FROM site_settings where name='access_password'"
       SiteSetting.login_required = true
       SiteSetting.must_approve_users = true
-      AdminDashboardData.report_access_password_removal rescue nil
     end
   end