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Transparency scorecard

California

Grade A

100/100 points · Ranked #1 of 51 jurisdictions. Agency: California DSS, Community Care Licensing Division.

Score breakdown

Record depth
About 11 years of inspection history publicly retrievable.
25/25
Downloadable data
Bulk export, open data, or equivalent machine-readable dump available.
20/20
Severity levels
State assigns an explicit per-violation or per-visit severity/risk tier.
15/15
Complaints published
Complaint records with dispositions (14,359 on file).
15/15
% with any inspection
99.4% of providers have at least one inspection on file (28,325 of 28,507).
15/15
Access friction
No CAPTCHA, IP block, or auth wall on the primary public records path.
10/10

CDSS open data plus facility detail portal; severity and complaints published.

What this grade means

Does well: Assigns severity tiers and publishes complaint dispositions with open data access.

See the dimension evidence above and the national rubric for how points were assigned.

Browse California providers on KinderFax. Official portal: Community Care Facility Search. Download the national CSV: transparency-scorecard.csv.