Georgia

Grade F

37/100 points · Ranked #40 of 51 jurisdictions. Agency: Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning.

Score breakdown

Record depth

About 5 years of inspection history publicly retrievable.

25/25

Downloadable data

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

10/20

Severity levels

State does not publish a usable severity/risk tier for citations.

0/15

Complaints published

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

0/15

% with any inspection

17.0% of providers have at least one inspection on file (760 of 4,479).

2/15

Access friction

Hard barrier: reCAPTCHA, IP block, or FOIA/access denial on core records.

0/10

ArcGIS roster; routine visit API IP-blocked — public feed skews to adverse-action letters.

Where it falls short: Routine inspection API is IP-blocked; published history skews to enforcement letters.

Browse Georgia providers on KinderFax. Official portal: DECAL Find Child Care. Download the national CSV: transparency-scorecard.csv.