diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/meraki_content_filtering-redundant-calls.yml b/changelogs/fragments/meraki_content_filtering-redundant-calls.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0e679bd84e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/meraki_content_filtering-redundant-calls.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+- "meraki_static_route - Module would make unnecessary API calls to Meraki when ``net_id`` is specified in task."
diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/network/meraki/meraki_content_filtering.py b/lib/ansible/modules/network/meraki/meraki_content_filtering.py
index 7676d654a3..048fd51912 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/network/meraki/meraki_content_filtering.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/network/meraki/meraki_content_filtering.py
@@ -172,8 +172,6 @@ def main():
     org_id = meraki.params['org_id']
     if not org_id:
         org_id = meraki.get_org_id(meraki.params['org_name'])
-    nets = meraki.get_nets(org_id=org_id)
-
     net_id = None
     if net_id is None:
         nets = meraki.get_nets(org_id=org_id)