Verify a Alabama Licensed Clinical Social Worker license

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How Alabama Licensed Clinical Social Worker license verification works

A Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Alabama is licensed by the AL 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: name license_number level status issued expires city_state county email.

Board note: Social work (lcsw=LICSW, lmsw=LMSW; LBSW not mapped): al_bsw, apps.socialwork.alabama.gov WebForms, no captcha, number box is a contains match, 5 rows/page; plus al_bsw_roster (AL-BSW-ROSTER, dataset): the same site's 'complete listing of all licensees' report (viewreport.aspx?rpt=Licensee%20Roster&format=CSV, 8,634 ACTIVE rows, name + number + status only, -S rows = supervisor certifications in their own numbering), freshness 14 d, live 2026-11-04. Psychology (psychologist): al_psych, https://apps.psychology.alabama.gov/public/licensee.aspx WebForms, no captcha, number box is a prefix match, grid is the record (Status Active / NonRenewalNN, Board Action, Disciplined). Counseling (lpc/lmft) ABEC https://abec-search.kalmservices.net/ = Cloudflare Turnstile validated server-side (400 'CAPTCHA verification failed' without a token; /api/search/verification answered 503 twice) → not built, left as is 2026-11-04. lada / bcba: no lookup found.

What a Licensed Clinical Social Worker 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 Clinical Social Worker 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.

Social Work Licensure Compact and multistate Licensed Clinical Social Worker licenses

Licensed Clinical Social Worker licenses can carry a multistate privilege under the Social Work Licensure Compact. When the Alabama record shows a multistate license, the result includes multistate: true and the privilege states. Privilege status is confirmed at the compact's own lookup, never inferred.

Verify a Alabama Licensed Clinical Social Worker license by API

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

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