Verify a Iowa Childcare Provider / Center license

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How Iowa Childcare Provider / Center license verification works

A Childcare Provider / Center in Iowa is licensed by the IA 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: name director_owner status license_type issued expires licenses capacity qrs_level accepts_child_care_assistance rates hours address provider_id provider_license_id.

Board note: childcare_provider via IA-HHS-CCMIS: HHS Child Care Client Portal provider search (CCMIS, ASP.NET WebForms + AjaxControlToolkit, plain httpx). The search page posts normally and 302s to ProviderLocator.aspx whose rows come from POST /ClientPortal/ProviderService.asmx/GetLastSearchedProviders {PageNumber} (10/page, session); ProviderDetails.aspx?PID=<ProviderID> renders the profile without a session (Provider Name, Director/Owner, Status, Provider Type, License/Registration Issue Date, licence table with Expiration Date, capacity, QRS level, CCA, rates, hours). No licence number is printed: ProviderID (PID) and ProviderLicenseID are the identifiers. Registered Child Development Home A/B/C = person; Licensed Center = organisation (Director/Owner printed); Non-Registered / Exempt = license_type mismatch. Teachers are BOEE (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 Iowa Childcare Provider / Center license by API

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

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