Verify a locksmith company or employee license through California BSIS's public license search
domain: search.dca.ca.gov · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Go to the BSIS Verify a License page at bsis.ca.gov/forms_pubs/online_services/verify_license.shtml and select the license type — Locksmith Company or Locksmith Company - Employee
This routes to the statewide Department of Consumer Affairs search tool at search.dca.ca.gov
Enter a name, city, or county to narrow results, since the tool supports partial-match searching rather than requiring an exact license number
Review the returned record for license status, issue/expiration dates, and any public disciplinary history
Cross-check the business name against the job's contracting paperwork before treating the license as confirmed for that specific company
Known gotchas
BSIS licenses the locksmith Company and its Company-Employee designation separately — an individual technician credential is not the same record as the company's license, and both may need checking
The actual query engine lives on the shared DCA search.dca.ca.gov tool, not on bsis.ca.gov itself — bookmarking the BSIS page alone won't reveal the query interface without following the license-type links through
Disciplinary action details are not always exposed in the basic search result and may require checking BSIS's enforcement pages separately
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