Want to Review a RI Inspection Report for Your Child’s Day Care? Good Luck
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Want to Review a RI Inspection Report for Your Child’s Day Care? Good Luck
The issue was unveiled this week when GoLocal reviewed the circumstances when Rhode Island State Police raided a home in Cranston to execute a court-approved search warrant, and unknowingly to them, found out that the home was the site of a licensed day care center.
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The Rhode Island Department of Human Services admitted to a technology failure on Friday, following repeated questions from GoLocal.
This failure impacts tens of thousands. As of January 2024, there are approximately 22,802 licensed day care slots available for children in Rhode Island: 6,921 for infants and toddlers, 13,159 for preschoolers (ages 3–5) in licensed centers, and 2,722 slots in licensed family child care homes for children ages six weeks to twelve years, according to data from Kids Count.
It is the latest tech breakdown by the McKee administration. In December of 2024, the private records of 600,000 were accessed by hackers.
The Department of Human Resources admits to the failure but claims that the reports are available on mobile — GoLocal questions that assertion.
Regardless, the state agency did not notify the public about the tech failure.
“We are working with our vendor to resolve web-based access issues that arose on Wednesday of this week. All reports are currently accessible by mobile phone,” said James Beardsworth, spokesperson for Human Services.
For parents looking to review a potential facility or check on the safety of their existing day care center, the most up-to-date inspection reports are not available on desktop and are difficult, at best, to access on mobile devices. This failure hits as parents are getting ready for the fall and the return to school.
Different Information
According to Human Services’ Beardsworth, “The most current monitoring report for this facility is from April of this year (2025).”
Again, GoLocal could not identify an inspection as recent as April of 2025 on the website’s mobile platform.
In fact, the most recent inspection report available online for the Cranston day care center raided by the State Police was a report filed in January of 2022.
The Department of Human Services provided no timeline for the tech failure to be corrected.