New Jersey

Grade B

75/100 points · Ranked #8 of 51 jurisdictions. Agency: New Jersey DCF, Office of Licensing.

Score breakdown

Record depth

About 9 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

Complaint records with dispositions (1,086 on file).

15/15

% with any inspection

100.0% of providers have at least one inspection on file (4,083 of 4,083).

15/15

Access friction

No CAPTCHA, IP block, or auth wall on the primary public records path.

10/10

Portal JSON API with inspections, complaints, and sanctions; no bulk open-data dump.

Does well: Complaint findings and sanction counts are published via the portal API.

Where it falls short: No open bulk download; citations are per regulation without severity tiers.

Browse New Jersey providers on KinderFax. Official portal: NJ Child Care Explorer. Download the national CSV: transparency-scorecard.csv.