Verified childcare facility data for New York State
Licensing, inspection, and violation records for licensed childcare centers in New York State, sourced from NY OCFS and NYC DOHMH and normalized into one schema.
Coverage
Statewide licensing
OCFS records for centers outside NYC and NYC DOHMH records for city-regulated programs, normalized into one schema.
Refreshed daily
A scheduled pipeline re-verifies every facility daily. last_verified_at is stamped on each row, so staleness is never silent.
Violations, honestly flagged
Every response marks violations_coverage explicitly, so missing data is never mistaken for a clean record.
Day care centers, small day care centers, and school-age child care programs statewide. Family and group family day care (in-home providers) are out of scope.
Violation records are available for NYC-regulated facilities. Facilities regulated by OCFS outside NYC currently have license and facility data only — every response makes this explicit rather than letting an empty violation list read as a clean record.
Endpoints
/api/facilities/searchFind facilities by zip code, name, or city/api/facilities/:idFull record — license, inspections, violations/api/facilities/:id/statusLicense and violation status, optimized for high-volume lookupsExample
curl https://careverification.com/api/facilities/{id}/status \
-H "Authorization: Bearer <your-api-key>"{
"id": "...",
"license_status": "active",
"violations_coverage": "verified_clean",
"open_violations": 0,
"last_verified_at": "2026-07-12T01:28:14Z"
}Get API access
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