Safety & records: read any daycare's file like an inspector taught you
Every state publishes inspection records. Almost no parent can find them, and fewer can read them. This department fixes both halves: a walkthrough for each state's portal, a decoder for its violation vocabulary, and an honest statement of what each archive hides.
The records decoder
Type in the class, status word, or topic printed on a report and get the state's own definition in plain words — Class I vs Class III, Type A vs Type B, substantiated vs corrected, and why the correction line matters as much as the finding.
The two reading guides
How to read an inspection report — the ten-minute method. What the record can't tell you — the blind spots: unsubstantiated complaints that leave no trace, pre-2019 visits that were never posted, and the states that hide fines by design.
Your state's portal walkthrough
What this department will never do
We do not copy, republish, rate, or score any named center's record. A rating would age, err, and launder stale findings into a verdict. The record belongs to the state; the reading skill belongs to you.