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Transparency scorecard

Ohio

Grade C

60/100 points · Ranked #22 of 51 jurisdictions. Agency: Ohio Department of Children and Youth.

Score breakdown

Record depth
About 201 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
88.0% of providers have at least one inspection on file (7,662 of 8,707).
15/15
Access friction
No CAPTCHA, IP block, or auth wall on the primary public records path.
10/10

Licensing portal; distinguishes advisories; citations often per standard.

What this grade means

Does well: Distinguishes advisories from violations.

Where it falls short: No severity tiers; per-standard citation rows inflate cross-state comparisons.

Browse Ohio providers on KinderFax. Official portal: Ohio Child Care Search. Download the national CSV: transparency-scorecard.csv.