NY Childcare Facility Data API

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

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

GET /api/facilities/searchFind facilities by zip code, name, or city

GET /api/facilities/:idFull record — license, inspections, violations

GET /api/facilities/:id/statusLicense and violation status, optimized for high-volume lookups

Example

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"
}

Access

API access requires a key. Email shauryasingh201@gmail.com to request one.