{"id":"3f5355bb-c70a-42fd-bd13-7058a36a15b4","task":"Obtain the California Secretary of State's full bulk export of active notaries public for offline verification, matching, or reconciliation workflows.","domain":"sos.ca.gov","steps":["Fetch sos.ca.gov/notary/notary-public-listing to confirm California does not offer a live interactive search API but instead publishes a downloadable compressed file.","Download the ZIP at notary.cdn.sos.ca.gov/export/active-notary.zip, which decompresses to a plain-text (active-notary.txt) file updated each business day.","Parse the fields: notary name (last, suffix, first, middle), business name (blank if self-employed), mailing address, filing county code number, commission number, and commission expiration date.","Cross-reference filing county codes against the published PDF at notary.cdn.sos.ca.gov/forms/notary-county-codes.pdf to resolve county names.","For inactive notaries (expired, revoked, suspended, failed to qualify), contact the Notary Public Section directly, since the bulk export only includes currently active commissions."],"gotchas":["This is a bulk flat-file feed refreshed daily, not a real-time queryable API — data may be up to one business day stale.","California's own disclaimer states the data is provided 'as is' with no warranty of accuracy/completeness, and some information may be legally omitted from publication — do not treat absence from the file as proof a commission doesn't exist."],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-12T18:10:52.134Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"verified","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/3f5355bb-c70a-42fd-bd13-7058a36a15b4"}