Verify a Indiana Childcare Provider / Center license

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How Indiana Childcare Provider / Center license verification works

A Childcare Provider / Center in Indiana is licensed by the IN Childcare / Teacher Licensing. PrimaryCheck looks the license up live at the board's public verification system (board lookup) by license number, or by name when no number is supplied. The record the board publishes is captured as evidence, hashed, and rendered into a proof PDF.

Fields returned for this board: provider_id name license_type credential_type issued expires status applicants ptq_level capacity licensed_ages programs address county inspections complaints enforcements flags.

Board note: childcare_provider via IN-FSSA-CHILDCARE: FSSA Child Care Finder (secure.in.gov/apps/fssa/providersearch, AngularJS SPA over a plain JSON API at …/api/: POST providers/search/name {name, coordinates, searchArea, pageSize} (relevance search capped at 10 rows), POST providers/childCareSearch {categoryIds:['4'], statewide searchArea, pageSize 1000} (whole regulated roster, 3,902 rows in 4 pages, cached 1 h, used to resolve a provider id to its location id), POST providers/search/id {providerId, locationId, coordinates} → applicants, license {typeDescription Regular/Registration/CCDF Certified, effective, termination}, status Open, providerType (Licensed Home / Licensed Center / Unlicensed Registered Ministry / Unlicensed CCDF Certified Center-School / Home), PTQ level, licensed ages, inspections with cited rules, complaints, enforcements; unknown id → 404. No licence number is printed: the claim number is the Finder provider id. Homes are in the person's name, centers/ministries print the applicant(s) of record: verified only when the claimant is the provider name or an applicant; organisation otherwise → ambiguous_match; home in another name → discrepancy. Health violations / complaints / enforcements / temporary closure = flags. Teachers are IDOE LVIS (not covered).

What a Childcare Provider / Center license check returns

Field check	Passes when
`license_number`	Equal to the board's number, ignoring prefix and leading zeros
`name`	Last name or declared alias matches; first name exact or nickname
`license_type`	The record is a Childcare Provider / Center license, strictly (no near-miss types)
`status`	The board shows an active status; probation is active with a flag
`expires`	Expiration is on or after today, where the board publishes it
`disciplinary_actions`	Recorded and flagged with any order documents; never silently dropped

Verdicts: verified, discrepancy, not_found, unable_to_verify (with a reason), pending. See how verdicts are decided.

Verify a Indiana Childcare Provider / Center license by API

POST https://api.primarycheck.com/v1/verifications
{
  "person": { "firstName": "…", "lastName": "…" },
  "claims": [
    { "type": "license", "state": "IN", "profession": "childcare_provider", "number": "…" }
  ],
  "purpose": "employment",
  "consent": { "consentId": "cons_…" }
}

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