Safety & records · New York
Reading a daycare's record in New York
New York publishes inspection records through OCFS day care program profiles. This page walks you to the record, decodes its vocabulary from the state's own definitions, and states what the archive cannot tell you. We never name, rate, or score a center.
First, the money
Records are half the decision. The other half is whether you can get help paying — run the free check for New York before you fall in love with a center you cannot fund.
The portal
OCFS day care program profiles
An inspection table covering 24 months and any uncorrected violations, plus license-level enforcement.
What this portal does not show
By design, New York does not post fines or corrective action plans. A clean New York profile means no uncorrected violations are listed — it cannot tell you what was fined or what plan was imposed.
How New York grades what it finds
No public severity class in the profile; uncorrected violations are the signal the portal gives you.
Words like these are decoded, term by term, in the records decoder — always from the state's own published definitions, and always with the correction status given the same weight as the finding.
If you need to report something
Report a concern to the OCFS complaint line or your regional office.
Read any record in this order
- The license status first — active, conditional, or under action.
- The findings, newest to oldest, watching for the same rule cited twice.
- The correction status on each finding — corrected, corrected on site, plan accepted, or still open. It carries the same weight as the finding.
- The blind spots above: what this archive structurally cannot show you.
Portal facts checked October 2026. Only the state agency's record is the record — this page is a map to it, not a copy of it.