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Colorado’s Department of Early Childhood lists each program’s complaints on its Colorado Shines page, with the department’s verdict on each and a report behind it, going back about three years. Older complaints are released only on request. The department does not rank complaints by severity in either place.
Supervisory visit · December 18, 2025
2.229.G · Correction due December 18, 2025
In Classrooms A and C, loose plastic bags were in unlocked bathroom cabinet drawers and accessible to children.
Required correction: Immediately, all loose plastic bags must be inaccessible to children at all times. Corrected at time of visit, the classroom teachers of both rooms moved the plastic bags to high shelves making them inaccessible to children. No response needed. Correct by 12/18/2025
2.230.B · Correction due December 18, 2025
In Classroom C, an electrical charging cord on the teacher's desk was loose and accessible to children.
Required correction: Immediately, all indoor equipment and materials must be safe and free of hazards at all times. Corrected at time of visit, the classroom teacher removed the cord and placed it on a high shelf making it inaccessible to children. No response needed. Correct by 12/18/2025
The mulch on the playground measured less than 1 inch deep at the foot of the slide, and less than 6 inches
2.230.C.1.c · Correction due December 18, 2025
Identified the mulch was compacted and had not been regularly raked to retain resiliency and a depth of 6 inches.
Required correction: Immediately, loose fill resilient surface must be raked regularly to maintain resiliency and to retain a depth of at least 6 inches. Correct by 12/18/2025
Supervisory visit · January 29, 2025
2.206.A · Correction due January 29, 2025
Reviewed 6 child files and found 3 to be missing documentation that the families have received the policies.
Required correction: Obtain documentation that families have received, read, and understand the program policies. Correct immediately 1/29/2025. Correct by 01/29/2025
2.229.C
Observed in classroom C an unlocked diaper changer with cleaning supplies labeled "keep out of reach of children".
Supervisory visit · March 13, 2024
2.122.A · Correction due March 13, 2024
No documentation of a current fire inspection was available for review. Previous inspection expired 4/29/23.
Required correction: Obtain documentation of a current fire inspection and send a copy to specialist with written response. Correct immediately. Correct by 03/13/2024
2.220.G.1
Two Abuterol medications for children were in a locked cabinet. Staff did not know the location of the key and took approximately a minute to find it and unlock the cabinet. CCHC stated that the center's policy is that emergency medications are locked up at night and taken out in the morning.
The Department of Early Childhood keeps about three years of complaints on a program’s public page. Anything older is released only on request, as a single file covering the whole state. Shortlist asked for that file under the Colorado Open Records Act and renews it yearly; it is what this page shows for complaints older than the department’s own window.
The file this page is built from arrived on September 13, 2026 and covers complaints the department publishes today, and complaints back to January 2023 obtained by records request. The next request goes in September 2027.
The department publishes a report for each of these visits. Shortlist has not read those reports yet, so this page shows when the state came and not what it found.
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