Alison Jean Schildt

The California Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) is a department within the California Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency. DCA licenses or certifies practitioners in more than 255 professions. There are currently more than 2.4 million practitioners licensed by the DCA. The Department consists of more than 40 bureaus, boards, committees, commission, and other entities that license and regulate practitioners. Regulatory duties include investigating complaints against licensees and disciplining violators. Boards, committees, and commissions operate independently but rely on DCA for administrative support. Bureaus, programs, divisions, and offices are under the full control of DCA.

The Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) provides information to the public regarding over 150 professional license types issued through the DCA Boards/Bureaus/Committees/Programs in accordance with the Information Practices Act, Civil Code § 1798.61, and Business and Professions Code § 161. The following is a list of bureaus, boards, and commissions: California Board of Chiropractic Examiners, California Athletic Commission, California Board of Accountancy, California Board of Acupuncture, California Architects Board, California Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists, California Board of Barbering and Cosmetology, California Board of Behavioral Sciences, California Bureau of Electronic and Appliance Repair, Home Furnishings and Thermal Insulation, California Board of Guide Dogs for the Blind, California Board of Optometry, California Board of Pharmacy, California Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians, California Bureau of Automotive Repair, California Bureau of Marijuana Control, California Bureau of Naturopathic Medicine, California Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education, California Bureau of Real Estate, California Bureau of Real Estate Appraisers, California Bureau of Security and Investigative Services, California Cemetery and Funeral Bureau, California Complaint Resolution Program, California Contractors State License Board, California Court Reporters Board, California Dental Board, California Dental Hygiene Committee, California Hearing Aid Dispensers Bureau, California Landscape Architects Technical Committee, Medical Board of California, Osteopathic Medical Board of California.

This dataset includes all licenses issued by California Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA). The information for each licensee includes Agency (Board/Bureau/Committee/Program) Name and Code, License Type Name and Code, License Number, Individual or Organization Indicator, Organization Name, Individual Full Name and Suffix, Public Address of Record, City, County, State, Zip, Country, Original Issue Date of the License, Expiration Date, License Status.

Open data is public data collected by the state through its routine business activities and published in a format that is easy to search, easy to download and easy to combine with other data sets from other sources; it does not include private or confidential data about individuals. The Government Operations Agency sponsors the statewide open data portal created to improve collaboration, expand transparency and lead to innovation and increased effectiveness. The Agency's open data efforts, which support data analysis and using existing data to improve state operations. The mission of the Office of the Chief Data Officer is to empower use of data by ensuring the state has the infrastructure, processes, and people to manage, access, and use data efficiently, effectively, securely, and responsibly.