Questions about the public record.

The feed contains every public regulatory action against every licensed facility in the covered states, with normalized fields: visit ID, visit date, citation Title and section, severity tier, monetary penalty, plan-of-correction status, and the joinable license number.

Severity is normalized across state vocabularies so a Type A citation in California sits on the same scale as the equivalent state’s most-serious tier.

Weekly normalized refresh, with daily incremental for new visits in covered states. Twelve-month rolling history at weekly cadence is the gating coverage tier; longer historical depth is in calibration.

Each state regulator publishes citations on its own tier system (Type A and B in California, Class I through IV elsewhere, severity scores in others). We map every state vocabulary onto a common five-tier scale, with the original state code preserved alongside so an actuary can audit the mapping.

Verticals are kept separate. A child care Type A and an adult-care Type A are different events even after normalization; the feed marks vertical at the row level.

License number joins cleanly to NAIC’s licensee tables and to most carrier-side claim systems that key on facility license. Where a carrier keys on parent operator instead, the feed includes the parent-of-record and chain-membership fields so a join is possible at the operator level.

Twelve months of weekly cadence is in production. Three to five years of historical inspection records are loaded for the covered states and available as a one-time pull for reserving and back-testing.

Pre-2020 records vary by state in completeness. We disclose the gaps before you license against them.

A facility page shows the licensed name, capacity, license type, every state visit on file, every citation by Title section, plan-of-correction status, ownership and director-of-record changes, and a list of nearby comparable facilities.

All of it comes from the state regulator’s public records. For California facilities, that is CCLD. We do not gate any of it; the data is free for parents because it is public.

CCLD Public Records (CA)

Type the facility name, the address, or the license number into the search on the homepage. If you do not know the license number, the address usually narrows it to one or two results.

Every California-licensed facility is on the site. If you cannot find one, it is most likely closed or unlicensed.

A citation is a state inspector’s finding that, on the day of the visit, the facility was out of compliance with a specific Title 22 section. It is a regulatory record, not a court ruling.

A citation does not mean a child was harmed. Many citations are paperwork (an expired posting, a missing record). A small fraction are serious (supervision lapses, injuries, abuse). The citation’s Title section tells you which.

What it tells you is what the state inspector saw on a specific date and how the facility responded.

No. Inspection records are public under California law. A facility can claim its page on ReadyRule and submit a verified correction on a citation, but it cannot remove or alter the underlying citation, the visit history, or the regulator’s text.

If a facility tells you their record is not on ReadyRule, ask them to send you the link to their state licensing portal page. The same record is there.

Yes. Every facility page, every citation, every search, and every comparable-facility view is free for parents and stays free.

ReadyRule is paid for by the people who work these cases professionally: plaintiff-side litigation attorneys (elder-abuse and qui-tam / False Claims Act) and insurance carriers. The parent surface is loss-leader on purpose.

Yes. If you are the licensee of record, you can claim your facility page in about two minutes. Verification is automatic against the state licensing portal: the email or phone on file with the regulator.

After claiming, you can submit corrections for the citations on your record, update the facility’s About description and hours, and keep the page accurate.

Claiming is free, no card required

Yes. If you are the licensee, you can submit a correction for any citation on your record. The state’s portal does not offer this; it shows only the inspector’s narrative.

You submit the correction with supporting evidence. Our team reviews it against that evidence, and if it holds up, a verified correction appears next to the citation, labeled and dated. The inspector’s narrative stays exactly as the state published it.

No. Claiming your facility page is free, and so is submitting a correction on your record. Our team verifies each correction against the evidence you provide before it goes live.

No. The inspector’s narrative stays on the page exactly as the state published it. A verified correction sits next to it, clearly labeled, so both are visible to anyone who reads the page.

This is the point. Parents and partners want to know what happened and what you did about it. The state record alone does not tell them the second half.

Our team does. Every correction is reviewed against the evidence you submit before anything is published. If it does not hold up, it is not published and you are notified. Corrections that disagree with the inspector’s finding are fine, as long as the evidence supports the point you are making.

We keep a record of who submitted each correction and the decision we made, so a disputed call can be reviewed.

Anywhere. The underlying records are public; our normalization and presentation are free to cite with a link back to the facility page or the relevant section. Email support@readyrule.com if you want a media-fact-check pass before publication.

Yes. Academic and newsroom data partnerships get a structured export of the covered states’ inspection records under a research-use license. Reach out at support@readyrule.com with the scope of the project and we will respond within one business day.

Academic projects at non-profit institutions get a no-fee research license with attribution. Commercial research, including consultancies and policy shops billing clients, licenses the same data on commercial terms.

ReadyRule was built by Jason Noah Choi, who started it after watching a family member try to vet a residential care placement using the state licensing portal. The portal returned forty-seven HTML pages that took two evenings to read.

The state publishes this data and hopes you can read it. We made it readable, sourced, and fast. The same data, the same regulator, the same records, presented as a document instead of a portal.

The data graph is the set of relationships between facilities, licensees, parent operators, citations, visit records, and historical lineage that the state regulator publishes as separate flat tables.

We compute the joins (license-number to operator, prior-license to current-license, sibling facilities under one chain) and keep them current so a partner can query the graph instead of stitching it together by hand.

New inspection visits in California land on facility pages on a weekly cycle; same-week for high-priority records. Other states are weekly where the regulator’s portal supports it. The exact refresh time per record is shown on each facility page.

The data on the page matches the regulator’s public record at the time it was retrieved. If the regulator amends a record, our copy follows on the next refresh.

If you spot something that is wrong, the page has a "Report a data issue" link in the footer of every facility page. Reports are reviewed within one business day; if the regulator’s record is the source of the error, we say so and link to it.

Use the "Report a data issue" link in the footer of any facility page, or email support@readyrule.com with the facility license number and the specific record. Reviewed within one business day.