About DaycareAlert

Our Story

I’m Brian Doherty. I started DaycareAlert after an incident at my son’s daycare in North Dallas. When I went looking for that facility’s inspection history, I learned it was public record — but buried on a state website, hard to search, and harder to make sense of. I built the site I wished I’d had that week: one place to look up a daycare and see what state inspectors actually found.

Our Commitment

A few things we hold ourselves to:

• The site is free for parents, and it stays that way.
• We don’t sell user data. Not to daycares, not to advertisers, not to anyone.
• Ratings are computed from official licensing records using one formula, applied the same way everywhere. A facility can’t pay to change its rating.
• Our cost figures are modeled estimates, and we label them that way — they are not actual tuition quotes.

How We Help

Here’s what’s on the site today:

• Records on 230,000+ licensed facilities, collected from the official licensing agencies in 48 states, D.C., and three Canadian provinces
• 1.3 million+ inspection and violation records, searchable by facility
• Modeled cost estimates to help you budget before you call around
• Plain-language guides to licensing, violation reports, and choosing a daycare