Verify a Ohio Teacher (state certificate) license

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

How Ohio Teacher (state certificate) license verification works

A Teacher (state certificate) in Ohio is licensed by the OH 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 license_type status issued expires administrators sutq_rating address city county phone flags.

Board note: childcare_provider via OH-DCY-CHILDCARE: Ohio Child Care Search (Department of Children and Youth; ASP.NET WebForms, plain httpx). Search by program name or licence number → results list → provider detail (Number, Program Type A/B/C/D/I/P/S, License Begin / Expiration, Program Status, Administrator(s), SUTQ rating). Type A/B homes are in the person's name: verified only when the claimant is the home's program name or a printed administrator; centers otherwise → ambiguous_match. Teachers are ODE (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 Ohio Teacher (state certificate) license by API

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

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