Verify a California Teacher (state certificate) license

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Live. We query the board directly for every check and the nightly canary is passing.

How California Teacher (state certificate) license verification works

A Teacher (state certificate) in California is licensed by the CA 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: license_number name license_type status licensee contact issued effective closed last_visit capacity address city county phone inspections complaints reports flags.

Board note: childcare_provider via CA-CDSS-CCL: CDSS Community Care Licensing Care Facility Search — the AngularJS app's public Transparency API (transparencyapi/api/FacilityDetail/<n>, FacilityReports/<n>, FacilitySearch?facType=…&facility=…; plain JSON GET, no token/captcha). Number claims → FacilityDetail (type-agnostic); name claims → FacilitySearch over the six child-care types + exact-name search for small family homes (type 0). Family child care homes are licensed to the person (LICENSEENAME): verified when the claimant is the licensee, the facility is in their name, or they are the printed contact; centers otherwise → ambiguous_match. Separate from the DCA professional licensing (walled). Teachers are CTC (not covered).

What a Teacher (state certificate) 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 Teacher (state certificate) 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 California Teacher (state certificate) license by API

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

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