Texas Childcare Licensing + Violations (HHSC)

Licensed childcare operations across Texas — daycares, licensed centers, child-care homes, and listed family homes — with published compliance records in an API-ready schema. Inspections, deficiency counts by severity, corrective actions, and adverse actions come from the Texas HHSC Child Care Licensing dataset, with source context preserved for review.

What you get per operation

field	example
name / type	Bright Steps Learning Center / Licensed Center
address / county	2900 LOUISIANA ST HOUSTON TX / HARRIS
capacity	120
programs	School Age Care, Meals Provided, Drop-In Care…
accepts_subsidies	true
total_inspections	14
deficiencies_high … deficiencies_low	severity-bucketed violation counts
corrective_action / adverse_action	regulator actions on record
issuance_date / hours / raw	full original record

Who uses this

• Compliance and quality teams — review published licensing and deficiency history.
• Childcare SaaS & marketplaces — market sizing, facility research, and quality signals.
• Franchise & site-selection teams — capacity and competitor gaps by county.
• Journalists & researchers — statewide compliance analysis.

Input examples

Low-cost 100-record sample: {} · One county: { "county": "HARRIS" } · Compliance screen: { "county": "DALLAS", "minHighDeficiencies": 3 }

This public-record product is for facility compliance and research. It is not a consumer report and must not be used to determine an individual's eligibility for credit, insurance, employment, or housing.

Source & legality

Official Texas HHSC open-data (data.texas.gov), public, accessed logged-out. Refreshed on the state's rolling inspection cadence — re-run monthly for current compliance status.

Named-operation inspection-to-correction evidence

Opt in with operationIds (1-50 exact official operation IDs, not operation numbers) and includeActivityEvidence: true. Activities (m5q4-3y3d), evaluated sections (ywgb-2ig8) and cited standards (tqgd-mf4x) are fetched through allowlisted fields. The output keeps separate activity, section and non-compliance entities with complete compound source keys. It does not flatten them into multiplied facility counts. Correction date and regulator verification date remain distinct. Narrative is never requested or returned; no suppressed addresses are reconstructed.

maxActivityRowsPerSource defaults to 5,000 (maximum 10,000) across the named IDs; one extra row checks truncation. Partial/unavailable sources or orphan links produce unknown complete counts, alongside separately labeled observed counts and source receipts. Exact duplicate keys deduplicate; conflicting keys or wrong-operation rows fail closed. material_evidence_hash excludes observation clocks, not substantive corrections. A full absence only covers the selected published queries. This is not a safety score, current vacancy count, background report or eligibility decision. Missing/unrecognized subsidy participation is null, not false.

Run node test_activity_evidence.mjs for injected-transport regressions. No customer payment, deployed release or recurring destination delivery is implied by source tests.