Verify a Ohio Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor license

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How Ohio Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor license verification works

A Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor in Ohio is licensed by the OH Behavioral Health / Counseling & Social Work Boards. 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: license_number name board license_type status sub_status sub_category board_action issued effective expires compact address endorsements specialties national_certifications.

Board note: OH-ELICENSE-DATA: DataOhio 'State of Ohio Licensure - Individual' daily CSV (dataset fd9f9671; the eLicense Ohio database behind elicense.ohio.gov, 2.41M rows, QUERY_RUN_DATE = extract day); resolved via the portal API (versions/latest → download-file signed URL), indexed in SQLite, freshness gate 3 days; STATUS/SUB_STATUS/EXPIRATION_DATE/BOARD_ACTION per licence (BOARD_ACTION Yes/Pending flagged, never auto-failed); no DOB (name-only >1 hit = ambiguous). The live elicense.ohio.gov search stays WAF-blocked from this network. Captured 2026-11-03. lcsw = Licensed Independent Social Worker, lmsw = Licensed Social Worker, lpc = LPC / LPCC (+Compact), lmft = (Independent) MFT, lada = LCDC II/III + LICDC (+CS), bcba = Certified Ohio Behavior Analyst (Psychology Board).

What a Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor 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 Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor 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 Ohio Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor license by API

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

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