diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 04aabd9631..7460607edd 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ The types of changes are:
 
 * Fix support for "redis.user" setting when authenticating to the Redis cache [#2666](https://github.com/ethyca/fides/pull/2666)
 * Fix error with the classify dataset feature flag not writing the dataset to the server [#2675](https://github.com/ethyca/fides/pull/2675)
+* Allow string dates to stay strings in cache decoding [#2695](https://github.com/ethyca/fides/pull/2695)
 * Admin UI
   * Remove Identifiability (Data Qualifier) from taxonomy editor [2684](https://github.com/ethyca/fides/pull/2684)
 
diff --git a/src/fides/api/ops/util/cache.py b/src/fides/api/ops/util/cache.py
index 63be1bdafb..530ce6eaac 100644
--- a/src/fides/api/ops/util/cache.py
+++ b/src/fides/api/ops/util/cache.py
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 _connection = None
 
 ENCODED_BYTES_PREFIX = "quote_encoded_"
+ENCODED_DATE_PREFIX = "date_encoded_"
 ENCODED_MONGO_OBJECT_ID_PREFIX = "encoded_object_id_"
 
 
@@ -31,7 +32,7 @@ def default(self, o: Any) -> Any:  # pylint: disable=too-many-return-statements
         if isinstance(o, bytes):
             return f"{ENCODED_BYTES_PREFIX}{quote(o)}"
         if isinstance(o, (datetime, date)):
-            return o.isoformat()
+            return f"{ENCODED_DATE_PREFIX}{o.isoformat()}"
         if isinstance(o, ObjectId):
             return f"{ENCODED_MONGO_OBJECT_ID_PREFIX}{str(o)}"
         if isinstance(o, object):
@@ -47,17 +48,13 @@ def default(self, o: Any) -> Any:  # pylint: disable=too-many-return-statements
 
 def _custom_decoder(json_dict: Dict[str, Any]) -> Dict[str, Any]:
     for k, v in json_dict.items():
-        try:
-            json_dict[k] = datetime.fromisoformat(v)
-            continue
-        except (TypeError, ValueError):
-            pass
-
         if isinstance(v, str):
             # The mongodb objectids couldn't be directly json encoded so they are converted
             # to strings and prefixed with encoded_object_id in order to find during decodeint.
             if v.startswith(ENCODED_MONGO_OBJECT_ID_PREFIX):
                 json_dict[k] = ObjectId(v[18:])
+            if v.startswith(ENCODED_DATE_PREFIX):
+                json_dict[k] = datetime.fromisoformat(v[13:])
             # The bytes from secrets couldn't be directly json encoded so it is url
             # encode and prefixed with quite_encoded in order to find during decodeint.
             elif v.startswith(ENCODED_BYTES_PREFIX):
diff --git a/tests/ops/util/test_cache.py b/tests/ops/util/test_cache.py
index 33c0c8319e..99f2a4ad14 100644
--- a/tests/ops/util/test_cache.py
+++ b/tests/ops/util/test_cache.py
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 
 from fides.api.ops.util.cache import (
     ENCODED_BYTES_PREFIX,
+    ENCODED_DATE_PREFIX,
     ENCODED_MONGO_OBJECT_ID_PREFIX,
     FidesopsRedis,
 )
@@ -121,7 +122,15 @@ def __init__(self):
             (b"some value", f'"{ENCODED_BYTES_PREFIX}some%20value"'),
             (
                 datetime(2023, 2, 14, 20, 58),
-                f'"{datetime(2023, 2, 14, 20, 58).isoformat()}"',
+                f'"{ENCODED_DATE_PREFIX}{datetime(2023, 2, 14, 20, 58).isoformat()}"',
+            ),
+            (
+                {"a": datetime(2023, 2, 14, 20, 58)},
+                f'{{"a": "{ENCODED_DATE_PREFIX}{datetime(2023, 2, 14, 20, 58).isoformat()}"}}',
+            ),
+            (
+                {"a": {"b": datetime(2023, 2, 14, 20, 58)}},
+                f'{{"a": {{"b": "{ENCODED_DATE_PREFIX}{datetime(2023, 2, 14, 20, 58).isoformat()}"}}}}',
             ),
             ({"a": "b"}, '{"a": "b"}'),
             ({"a": {"b": "c"}}, '{"a": {"b": "c"}}'),
@@ -152,16 +161,28 @@ class TestCustomDecoder:
         [
             (f'{{"a": "{ENCODED_BYTES_PREFIX}some%20value"}}', {"a": b"some value"}),
             (
-                f'{{"a": "{datetime(2023, 2, 17, 14, 5).isoformat()}"}}',
+                f'{{"a": "{ENCODED_MONGO_OBJECT_ID_PREFIX}507f191e810c19729de860ea"}}',
+                {"a": ObjectId("507f191e810c19729de860ea")},
+            ),
+            (
+                f'{{"a": "{ENCODED_DATE_PREFIX}{datetime(2023, 2, 17, 14, 5).isoformat()}"}}',
                 {"a": datetime(2023, 2, 17, 14, 5)},
             ),
             (
-                f'{{"a": "{ENCODED_MONGO_OBJECT_ID_PREFIX}507f191e810c19729de860ea"}}',
-                {"a": ObjectId("507f191e810c19729de860ea")},
+                f'{{"a": {{"b": {{"c": "{ENCODED_DATE_PREFIX}{datetime(2023, 2, 17, 14, 5).isoformat()}"}}}}}}',
+                {"a": {"b": {"c": datetime(2023, 2, 17, 14, 5)}}},
+            ),
+            (
+                '{"birthday": "2001-11-08"}',
+                {"birthday": "2001-11-08"},
+            ),
+            (
+                '{"a": {"b": {"birthday": "2001-11-08"}}}',
+                {"a": {"b": {"birthday": "2001-11-08"}}},
             ),
         ],
     )
-    def test_decode_bytes(self, value, expected):
+    def test_cache_decode(self, value, expected):
         cache = FidesopsRedis()
         assert cache.decode_obj(value) == expected