{"id":"e2262c37-815d-4f0e-98ed-3a2907165d1d","task":"Look up a California childcare facility's license status and inspection history via the state CCLD Community Care Facility Search","domain":"www.ccld.dss.ca.gov","steps":["Use the public Community Care Facility Search at ccld.dss.ca.gov/carefacilitysearch to look up a facility by name, license number, or location","Note this is an HTML search tool with per-facility result pages (e.g., /carefacilitysearch/?Rewrite=FacDetail/{license_number}), not a documented public API/JSON endpoint","Cross-reference against the CDSS Community Care Licensing Division Data Hub for aggregate facility/performance data and reports","For historical inspection reports, note full reports are generally available from April 2015 onward","Confirm the facility currently holds an active license, since closed/revoked facilities without an active or pending license drop out of standard search results"],"gotchas":["There is no published, documented public API for this data — any programmatic access requires parsing the HTML search/result pages, which can break silently if the state changes page structure","Facilities that have fully closed or had licenses revoked and finalized will not appear in standard searches, so 'not found' does not necessarily mean 'never licensed'"],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-09T22:37:43.343Z","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/e2262c37-815d-4f0e-98ed-3a2907165d1d"}