Karen Kinney
A family child care home in Highlands Ranch, Colorado 80126
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The short answer
Record last released by Colorado Department of Early Childhood (CDEC) on Nov 2, 2026.
Each figure’s source sits beside it, in its section below.
What these words mean5
- Inspection (survey)
- A visit by state inspectors, often unannounced, who check a place against the rules it must meet. For nursing homes and other places Medicare pays, CMS calls these visits surveys: a standard survey of a nursing home comes at least every 15 months, and a complaint survey whenever a complaint calls for one. Source: CMS; 42 CFR 488.308.
- Deficiency, citation, violation
- What inspectors write up when a place didn’t meet a rule: the rule, what they saw, and when. CMS calls it a deficiency; states may say citation or violation. It is the inspectors’ finding, not a court’s, and the place is usually asked for a plan to correct it. Source: CMS, statement of deficiencies (Form CMS-2567); each state’s licensing agency.
- Quality rating
- Many states rate child care in a quality rating system that goes past the licensing rules, such as Texas Rising Star or Kentucky All STARS. Taking part is often voluntary, so a program with no rating hasn’t been rated low. Source: Each state’s quality rating system.
- Licence status
- Whether the state’s licence lets the place operate now, in the state’s own words: licensed, on probation (allowed to keep operating on conditions, after problems), provisional, pending or expired. Source: Each state’s licensing agency.
- Capacity
- The most people the licence or certification lets the place care for at once: residents, children, beds or apartments, as the state counts them. It isn’t how many are there now. Source: Each state’s licensing agency.
What did inspectors find?
CDEC’s file lists 23 inspections, investigations and complaints from Jan 1, 2023 to Oct 27, 2026, the latest on Mar 24, 2026 (Supervisory).
14 citations in all, 2 of them from complaints and Stage II investigations.
Where Colorado posts its reports: Colorado Shines.
Colorado Department of Early Childhood (CDEC), Data request 2026-967, delivered Oct 28, 2026 and each month since: licensing inspections, complaints and Stage II investigations from Jan 1, 2023. Released Oct 28, 2026. CDEC sends the previous month’s records in the first week of each month; a person saves each file and loads it.
When those citations happened
14 citations in 8 months of the last 46. Last cited Mar 2025. The last 4 years, to Nov 5, 2026.
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| 2024 | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
| 2025 | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
| 2026 | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct |
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Hearth Record drew this from the dates and levels in the source’s own records.
Each citation, in its source’s words
Grouped by visit, newest first, with the level its source gave it.
Colorado Department of Early Childhood (CDEC), Data request 2026-967, delivered Oct 28, 2026 and each month since: licensing inspections, complaints and Stage II investigations from Jan 1, 2023. Released Oct 28, 2026. CDEC sends the previous month’s records in the first week of each month; a person saves each file and loads it.
Mar 17, 2025: stage II (case 253607)2 citations
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Every required training in this rule section 2.312 must be documented and available for review by the Department.
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Prior to working with children, unless otherwise specified in rules, personnel files for equally qualified providers, qualified substitutes, and all staff members must be available for review by the Department and must include:
Apr 30, 2024: probationary (case 220566)1 citation
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If a sand box designated for play is used it must be covered when not in use.
Apr 1, 2024: probationary (case 218561)1 citation
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All medications in the family child care home, except those medications specified in the Department-approved medication administration training as emergency medications, must be locked and inaccessible to children, but available to the primary provider, applicant 2, equally qualified provider, qualified substitute, or staff members trained in administering medication.
Sep 21, 2023: supervisory (case 187424)3 citations
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Prior to issuance of the license, the licensee and primary provider must complete:A State Department approved training in Standard Precautions that meets current Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requirements prior to working with children. This training must be renewed annually and may be counted towards ongoing training requirements. This Standard Precautions training can be included as part of the Pre-Licensing training, in which case the total number of hours for Pre-licensing training required in 7.707.A1 is increased to sixteen (16) clock hours, and Standard Precautions training may count as no more than one (1) hour of the sixteen (16) clock hours; and,
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The admission record must include:A dated, written authorization for emergency medical care signed and updated annually by the parent(s) or guardian(s)
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Within thirty (30) days after admission, and within thirty (30) days following the expiration date, the parent or guardian of each child must submit a statement of the child’s current health status or written verification of a scheduled appointment with a health care practitioner. The statement of the child’s current health statusmust be signed and dated by a health care provider who has seen the child within the last twelve (12)months, or within the last six (6) months for children under two and one-half (2-1/2 ) years of age. The statement must include when the next visit is required by the health care provider. All health statementsmust be kept at the licensed child care home.
May 23, 2023: limited Supervisory (case 200260)1 citation
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The Department may deny, revoke, suspend, change to probationary or fine a child care facility or child placement agency if the applicant(s), an affiliate of the applicant, or any person living with or employed by the applicant has been found to violate any of the provisions set forth in section 26-6-108(2), C.R.S.:
Apr 26, 2023: limited Supervisory (case 198351)1 citation
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The Department may deny, revoke, suspend, change to probationary or fine a child care facility or child placement agency if the applicant(s), an affiliate of the applicant, or any person living with or employed by the applicant has been found to violate any of the provisions set forth in section 26-6-108(2), C.R.S.:
Mar 30, 2023: limited Supervisory (case 196643)1 citation
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The Department may deny, revoke, suspend, change to probationary or fine a child care facility or child placement agency if the applicant(s), an affiliate of the applicant, or any person living with or employed by the applicant has been found to violate any of the provisions set forth in section 26-6-108(2), C.R.S.:
Feb 27, 2023: limited Supervisory (case 194623)1 citation
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The Department may deny, revoke, suspend, change to probationary or fine a child care facility or child placement agency if the applicant(s), an affiliate of the applicant, or any person living with or employed by the applicant has been found to violate any of the provisions set forth in section 26-6-108(2), C.R.S.:
Jan 30, 2023: limited Supervisory (case 192897)1 citation
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The Department may deny, revoke, suspend, change to probationary or fine a child care facility or child placement agency if the applicant(s), an affiliate of the applicant, or any person living with or employed by the applicant has been found to violate any of the provisions set forth in section 26-6-108(2), C.R.S.:
Jan 5, 2023: limited Supervisory (case 191736)2 citations
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The Department may deny, revoke, suspend, change to probationary or fine a child care facility or child placement agency if the applicant(s), an affiliate of the applicant, or any person living with or employed by the applicant has been found to violate any of the provisions set forth in section 26-6-108(2), C.R.S.:
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All hazardous items and materials must be inaccessible to children including, but not limited to, office supplies, matches, plastic bags, cleaning and laundry materials, medicines, perfumes, curling irons, adult sharp scissors and knives, cosmetics, shaving lotions, hair products, poisonous plants, and all items labeled by manufacturer as “keep out of reach of children.
All 23 visits on record
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
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| Mar 24, 2026 | Supervisory (case 255726) | No citations; no clearance date in CDEC’s file. |
| Apr 23, 2025 | Supervisory (case 223968) | No citations; cleared May 5, 2025. |
| Mar 17, 2025 | Stage II (case 253607) | Outcome, in CDEC’s words: Founded; 2 citations; no clearance date in CDEC’s file. |
| May 30, 2024 | Renewal-Probationary (case 221116) | No citations; cleared May 30, 2024. |
| Apr 30, 2024 | Probationary (case 220566) | 1 citation; cleared May 1, 2024. |
| Apr 1, 2024 | Probationary (case 218561) | 1 citation; cleared Apr 4, 2024. |
| Mar 6, 2024 | Probationary (case 216830) | No citations; cleared Apr 4, 2024. |
| Feb 6, 2024 | Probationary (case 215185) | No citations; cleared Feb 6, 2024. |
| Jan 9, 2024 | Probationary (case 214377) | No citations; cleared Jan 9, 2024. |
| Dec 14, 2023 | Probationary (case 213112) | No citations; cleared Dec 14, 2023. |
| Nov 17, 2023 | Probationary (case 211662) | No citations; cleared Nov 17, 2023. |
| Oct 23, 2023 | Probationary (case 209879) | No citations; cleared Oct 23, 2023. |
| Sep 21, 2023 | Supervisory (case 187424) | 3 citations; cleared Sep 28, 2023. |
| Sep 21, 2023 | Probationary (case 208235) | No citations; cleared Sep 21, 2023. |
| Aug 24, 2023 | Probationary (case 205949) | No citations; cleared Aug 24, 2023. |
| Jul 25, 2023 | Probationary (case 203866) | No citations; cleared Jul 25, 2023. |
| Jun 22, 2023 | Limited Supervisory (case 202129) | No citations; cleared Jun 22, 2023. |
| May 23, 2023 | Limited Supervisory (case 200260) | 1 citation; cleared May 23, 2023. |
| Apr 26, 2023 | Limited Supervisory (case 198351) | 1 citation; cleared Apr 26, 2023. |
| Mar 30, 2023 | Limited Supervisory (case 196643) | 1 citation; cleared Mar 30, 2023. |
| Feb 27, 2023 | Limited Supervisory (case 194623) | 1 citation; cleared Feb 27, 2023. |
| Jan 30, 2023 | Limited Supervisory (case 192897) | 1 citation; cleared Jan 30, 2023. |
| Jan 5, 2023 | Limited Supervisory (case 191736) | 2 citations; cleared Jan 26, 2023. |
Is it licensed?
- Colorado’s service type: Family Child Care Home; licensed by the Colorado Department of Early Childhood.
- Licensed for 6 children.
- Colorado’s licence number: 23455.
Colorado Department of Early Childhood (CDEC), Colorado Licensed Child Care Facilities Report. Released Nov 2, 2026. Updated monthly.
What did complaints and investigations find?
- CDEC’s file lists 1 complaint or Stage II investigation from Jan 1, 2023 to Oct 27, 2026. Outcomes, in CDEC’s words: Founded (1).
- Neither CDEC’s roster nor its file of inspections lists enforcement actions, such as fines or the revocation of a licence.
Colorado Department of Early Childhood (CDEC), Data request 2026-967, delivered Oct 28, 2026 and each month since: licensing inspections, complaints and Stage II investigations from Jan 1, 2023. Released Oct 28, 2026. CDEC sends the previous month’s records in the first week of each month; a person saves each file and loads it.
| Received | Case and outcome, in CDEC’s words | In CDEC’s file |
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| Mar 6, 2025 | Stage II: Founded | Received Mar 6, 2025; CDEC contacted the provider Mar 17, 2025; 2 citations; case 253607. |
Who does the caring?
- Colorado doesn’t publish staffing levels for individual programs in this dataset.
Who owns it?
- Colorado’s dataset lists its governing body as NA.
Colorado Department of Early Childhood (CDEC), Colorado Licensed Child Care Facilities Report. Released Nov 2, 2026. Updated monthly.
How is it rated?
- Colorado Shines: Level 1 of five, as Colorado rates it.
Colorado Department of Early Childhood (CDEC), Colorado Licensed Child Care Facilities Report. Released Nov 2, 2026. Updated monthly.
How does it compare nearby?
- Programs aren’t compared with each other here: CDEC’s file doesn’t grade its citations by how serious they are.
| Place | |
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| Karen Kinney This child care provider | Not given |
What the record doesn’t say
- Inspections, investigations and complaints are from the file CDEC sent for a data request, from Jan 1, 2023, and the file it sends each month since. CDEC says its file may miss a program licensed during that time that is no longer licensed, and that its records may change as they are updated or finalized.
- CDEC’s file gives each rule cited, its category, and the days set to correct it and to clear the case, but not what the inspector wrote: Colorado Shines has each monitoring report. CDEC doesn’t grade citations by how serious they are.
- This page is built from the dataset of licensed child care facilities CDEC publishes monthly on data.colorado.gov, so a program licensed or closed since may be missing or still shown. It leaves out 24-hour licence types and care that is exempt from licensing.
- Colorado’s roster carries no enforcement actions, hours or staffing levels.
Sources
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Colorado Department of Early Childhood (CDEC), Colorado Licensed Child Care Facilities Report (data.colorado.gov, a9rr-k8mu).
Released Nov 2, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated monthly. Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL). data.colorado.gov’s terms ask for this disclaimer: “The data made available here has been modified for use from its original source, which is the State of Colorado. THE STATE OF COLORADO MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTY AS TO THE COMPLETENESS, ACCURACY, TIMELINESS, OR CONTENT OF ANY DATA MADE AVAILABLE THROUGH THIS SITE. THE STATE OF COLORADO EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. The data is subject to change as modifications and updates are complete. It is understood that the information contained in the Web feed is being used at one’s own risk.” Facts are extracted; monitoring reports are not republished.
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Colorado Department of Early Childhood (CDEC), Data request 2026-967, delivered Oct 28, 2026 and each month since: licensing inspections, complaints and Stage II investigations from Jan 1, 2023.
Released Oct 28, 2026 and checked Oct 29, 2026. CDEC sends the previous month’s records in the first week of each month; a person saves each file and loads it. No licence stated: CDEC sent this file for a data request that said it would be shown on a free public website. Its disclaimer says the data “is now subject to open records law”. Shown free, never sold.
If you believe something here is wrong, a correction starts with the agency whose record this copies: Colorado Department of Early Childhood (CDEC). Colorado’s own record is on coloradoshines.com. If Hearth Record copied something wrongly, it will fix it and log the correction publicly, with its date: how corrections work.
This copy of the record was made on Nov 5, 2026.
From the provider
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Replies
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Paid listing
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