About
Official childcare inspection records, translated into plain English
Choosing a childcare provider is a big step. Parents should not have to rely on scattered inspection pages or hard-to-read reports when deciding who to trust with their children.
Childcare providers are regulated by state agencies and, in some places, local licensing authorities. Those agencies publish inspection information, but many parents do not know it exists, and the records can be hard to read, compare, or use to spot patterns.
DaycareFacts.com does the heavy lifting: it gathers official inspection records and source documents, analyzes the records, and presents the information in a clearer, easier-to-use format.
Reports and data should be useful. Reading 20 or 30 reports across several providers can make it difficult to see what official records show and which patterns deserve a closer look.
The purpose of this project is to make available public data understandable and easier to digest.
How DaycareFacts started
DaycareFacts started with a practical question in my own family. We were considering moving our daughter from one daycare to another, and I started doing research on them. This is how I came across Florida's Child Care Provider Search, a portal that publishes official childcare inspection reports.
I wanted to compare the official inspection histories of several childcare providers before making the decision.
The records existed, but they were scattered across government pages and difficult to review side by side. Reading individual reports also made it hard to distinguish isolated administrative violations from repeated patterns that might deserve a closer look.
I built DaycareFacts to make that process easier for other parents: organize the public records, explain them more clearly, link directly to the original reports, and help families identify useful questions to ask. It is intended to provide a better starting point - not to make the decision for parents or replace an in-person visit and their own judgment.
Building DaycareFacts - and continuously working with large amounts of data involved in this project - brought together my background and years of experience in information technology and computer science, love for data and statistics, and the drive to make the data meaningful and understandable to myself and other parents.
Marty Paukstys
Founder of DaycareFacts
Key points
- DaycareFacts.com currently covers childcare providers in Florida, California, and Texas, with more states to follow
- The service is free for parents
- Daycare businesses are not able to influence summaries or any other information presented at DaycareFacts.com
- The service is intended and designed to be as neutral, fact-based and objective as possible
- AI is not used to create inspection findings/violations, counts, provider labels, concern classifications, search ranking, source facts or summaries. This eliminates the possibility of AI hallucinating the facts or statistics. Florida daycare provider pages include "Questions to ask" section; some questions were generated offline with Google Gemini LLM from structured inspection findings/violations and source-linked context, then reviewed before publication. AI is not called when pages load.
- Use caution when evaluating providers. Treat DaycareFacts.com as an assistant, and always use your own due diligence and judgment.
- If you find inaccuracies, please report them so they can be reviewed