Colorado Department of Early Childhood cited something at 2 of the 4 visits below. Across Denver home daycares it cites something at about 57% of visits. Each state decides what gets written up, so this compares Denver with Denver and never with another state.
Not yet reported: ages served, hours, days / week, schedule, holiday closures.
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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 · August 19, 2026
2.138.A · Correction due August 19, 2026
Reviewed emergency drill logs for 2026 and identified only fire drill documented.
Required correction: Tornado drills must be completed monthly from March through October and lockdown/active shooter drills must be completed quarterly. Correct immediately and submit a written statement of compliance to specialist. Correct by 08/19/2026
2.312.C
Reviewed provider file and identified the Standard Precautions training to be expired.
2.312.M · Correction due September 19, 2026
Reviewed provider file and identified that the Introduction to Early Intervention and Preschool Special Education training to be missing.
Required correction: The training must be completed by providers. Submit a written statement of compliance to specialist. Correct by 09/19/2026
2.318.C.3 · Correction due August 19, 2026
Reviewed emergency logs and identified no documentation of monthly smoke alarm testing.
Required correction: Monthly smoke alarm testing must be completed and a record must be kept. Correct immediately and submit a written statement of compliance to specialist. Correct by 08/19/2026
2.320.A.7
Reviewed 4 child files and identified 2 children with expired emergency medical authorization.
2.321.A.3 · Correction due September 19, 2026
Reviewed 4 child files and identified one child's medical statement to be expired.
Required correction: Each child must have a current health statement. Submit a written statement of compliance to specialist. Correct by 09/19/2026
Supervisory visit · September 19, 2023
7.707.32.A.7 · Correction due October 19, 2023
Reviewed provider's file and observed medication administration course to be expired. (12/26/22)
Required correction: Obtain updated medication course. Correct by 10/19/2023
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.
The department will also review one program’s complete file on request, which is more than either source above contains. Leave your email and Shortlist will ask for Samantha Dextor’s file specifically, instead of waiting for the next one.
Cost, hours and late pickup, a typical day, sick and biting policies.
Ask which of these findings were serious, and what changed.Colorado Department of Early Childhood publishes a correction deadline, never whether the work was done or how serious it was.
Where every fact on this page came from, and when Shortlist last checked it against that source. Anything Shortlist could not source is named here rather than left blank.
Not yet reported: established, teaching approach.
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