Discipline: the counts, and where this site stops
DORA records the action and a case number, and no reason at all. This page explains what that record is, and why no page here attaches one to a name.
What kinds of action DORA records
| Action | Active licenses | Share |
|---|---|---|
| CLS Stipulation | 8,947 | 45.4% |
| CLS Letter of Admonition | 6,559 | 33.3% |
| CLS Combined w/other case for action | 1,410 | 7.2% |
| CLS Cease & Desist Order | 498 | 2.5% |
| CLS Citation Issued | 426 | 2.2% |
| ID Hearing Formal Complaint/Charges Filed with OAC | 368 | 1.9% |
| ITRM Cessation of Practice | 306 | 1.6% |
| CLS Suspension | 222 | 1.1% |
| CLS Application Denied | 174 | 0.9% |
| Stipulation | 104 | 0.5% |
| Probation | 94 | 0.5% |
| ITRM Suspension | 89 | 0.5% |
| CLS Final Agency Order | 75 | 0.4% |
| ITRM Summary Suspension | 73 | 0.4% |
| Formal Complaint-Charges with OAC | 66 | 0.3% |
| CLS Agreement | 65 | 0.3% |
⚠️ Read the two most common entries carefully
A stipulation is an agreement between the licensee and the board; a letter of admonition is a written caution. Together they are the large majority of what is recorded here. Neither is a finding that someone is dangerous, and neither stops them practising — every license counted on this page is active.
DORA gives no reason for any of it. So a reader cannot tell, from this file, whether an action followed a paperwork failure or something serious. That is a limit of the record, and pretending otherwise would be inventing.
Where this site draws the line
DORA publishes all of this behind a search tool: you arrive with a name in your hand. Turning it into indexable pages would build something the source does not have — a searchable list of sanctioned professionals, findable by people who were not looking for them.
- No page names a person alongside an action. The tables on profession, city and family pages have no discipline column.
- No page lists “the disciplined of X”.
- No case number on any page.
- The counts are published everywhere, because a rate is a fact about the system.
- The detail appears on an individual entry, quoted from
DORA without addition, rendered in your browser from the part of the address
after the
#— no URL, no indexing.
The rate, family by family
| Family | Active licenses | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Barber/Cosmetology | 4,440 | 31.4% |
| Nursing | 1,881 | 13.3% |
| Accountancy | 1,005 | 7.1% |
| Pharmacy | 911 | 6.4% |
| Architects, Engineers and Land Surveyors | 857 | 6.1% |
| Medical | 817 | 5.8% |
| Electrical | 745 | 5.3% |
| Dental | 593 | 4.2% |
| Veterinary | 434 | 3.1% |
| Plumbing | 423 | 3.0% |
| Massage Therapists | 305 | 2.2% |
| Professional Counselors | 278 | 2.0% |
| Chiropractic | 272 | 1.9% |
| Addiction Counselors | 160 | 1.1% |
| Social Work | 151 | 1.1% |
| Physical Therapy | 134 | 0.9% |
| Outfitters | 126 | 0.9% |
| Psychology | 104 | 0.7% |
| Unlicensed Psychotherapist | 54 | 0.4% |
| Occupational Therapy | 45 | 0.3% |