Verify a Florida Licensed Master Social Worker license

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How Florida Licensed Master Social Worker license verification works

A Licensed Master Social Worker in Florida is licensed by the FL 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: status standing multistate expires issued discipline+documents public_complaints emergency_actions data_as_of.

Board note: rung 1 (plain POST, MQA search services). mqa-internet.doh.state.fl.us timed out (90 s) during the 03:xx ET sweep 2026-11-04 after passing at 22:30 and 02:40 — host outage; nightly canary auto-degrades if it persists

What a Licensed Master 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 Master 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 Master Social Worker licenses

Licensed Master Social Worker licenses can carry a multistate privilege under the Social Work Licensure Compact. When the Florida 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 Florida Licensed Master Social Worker license by API

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

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