Florida

Grade C

57/100 points · Ranked #24 of 51 jurisdictions. Agency: Florida DCF, Office of Child Care Regulation.

Score breakdown

Record depth

Portal history capped near 36 months (~3 years).

15/25

Downloadable data

Data is reachable via a public search form or portal API, not a bulk dump.

10/20

Severity levels

State assigns an explicit per-violation or per-visit severity/risk tier.

15/15

Complaints published

Complaints are not published (or not present) in the public feed.

0/15

% with any inspection

79.9% of providers have at least one inspection on file (9,440 of 11,813).

12/15

Access friction

Partial barriers (gated PDFs, quotas, or incomplete structured fields).

5/10

CARES portal API (~3 years); inspection PDFs are auth-gated.

Does well: Publishes severity and correction status on citations.

Where it falls short: Portal history capped at about three years; source PDFs require auth.

Browse Florida providers on KinderFax. Official portal: CARES Public Search. Download the national CSV: transparency-scorecard.csv.