ACTIVE POOR Compliance

Friend's Daycare Center LLC

9343 ALAMEDA AVE, EL PASO, TX 79907

License #1783265 | Expires: Jun 5, 2024

Day Care Center
Type
95
Capacity
23
Inspections
20
Violations

Compliance Summary

11
Critical
5
Serious
2
Moderate
2
Minor

Inspection History

Date Type Result Violations
Feb 25, 2026 Annual Inspection Compliant 0
Feb 19, 2026 Annual Inspection Violations Found 1
Jan 30, 2026 Annual Inspection Compliant 0
Jan 29, 2026 OTHER Compliant 0
Dec 16, 2025 Annual Inspection Compliant 0
Dec 15, 2025 OTHER Violations Found 7
Dec 2, 2025 Annual Inspection Violations Found 2
May 28, 2025 Annual Inspection Compliant 0
May 23, 2025 Annual Inspection Compliant 0
May 22, 2025 OTHER Compliant 0
Apr 7, 2025 Annual Inspection Compliant 0
Dec 18, 2024 Annual Inspection Compliant 0
Dec 12, 2024 Annual Inspection Violations Found 1
Sep 24, 2024 Annual Inspection Compliant 0
Aug 27, 2024 Annual Inspection Compliant 0
Aug 22, 2024 OTHER Compliant 0
Aug 9, 2024 OTHER Violations Found 2
May 20, 2024 Annual Inspection Compliant 0
May 8, 2024 Annual Inspection Violations Found 1
Mar 12, 2024 Annual Inspection Compliant 0
Feb 13, 2024 Annual Inspection Violations Found 3
Dec 13, 2023 Annual Inspection Compliant 0
Aug 8, 2023 Annual Inspection Violations Found 3

Violation Details

Serious Corrected

One infant room was over ratio by one child. There were 6 children with one caregiver. This was corrected at inspection when one child was moved to another classroom which placed all classrooms in ratio.

Corrected: Feb 19, 2026

Critical Corrected

During a DFPS investigation, it was determined that a child in care was left unattended in a vehicle for two hours.

Corrected: Feb 11, 2026

Critical Corrected

During a DFPS investigation, it was determined that the electronic child safety alarm in vehicles used for transportation were not functioning according to the manufacturer?s instructions.

Corrected: Feb 11, 2026

Critical Corrected

During a DFPS investigation, it was determined that a caregiver counted in ratio admitted to not knowing she was responsible for a particular child in care. This caregiver conducted transportation and did not know this child was in the transportation vehicle. This resulted in the child being unaccounted for and left alone and unsupervised in a transportation vehicle for two hours.

Corrected: Feb 11, 2026

Critical Corrected

During a DFPS Investigation, it was determined that a caregiver conducting transportation admitted to not having a list of the children being transported. This resulted in a child in care being left unattended in a vehicle for a period of two hours.

Corrected: Feb 11, 2026

Critical Corrected

During a DFPS investigation, after reviewing video footage at the operation, a caregiver conducting transportation was seen exiting the transportation vehicle and not conducting a physical walk-through. This resulted in a child in care being left alone and unattended in a transportation vehicle for two hours.

Corrected: Feb 11, 2026

Critical Corrected

This standard was found deficient as part of a DFPS Investigation

Corrected: Feb 11, 2026

Critical Corrected

During a DFPS Investigation, caregivers conducting transportation admitted to not using the electronic child safety alarm as required. In addition, owner stated they did not require the caregivers to use the electronic child safety alarm. This resulted in a child in care being left unattended in a transportation vehicle.

Corrected: Feb 11, 2026

Moderate Corrected

Two infants did not have updated written feeding instructions.

Corrected: Dec 5, 2025

Serious Corrected

The operation has not been inspected for gas leaks in the last two years. The last gas leak test was completed on 8/19/2023.

Corrected: Dec 12, 2025

Serious Corrected

Six infants were in care with one caregiver. This was corrected at inspection when one infant was moved to other infant room.

Critical Corrected

This standard was found deficient as part of a DFPS Investigation.

Critical Corrected

During a DFPS investigation, it was determined that a caregiver left three children alone in a van for approximately 10 minutes when she exited the vehicle to pick up additional children at a school. The van remained on when the caregiver left the children unattended.

Critical Corrected

During inspection, a caregiver was observed to be supervising children without cleared background checks, to include pending fingerprints and pending national sex offender registry checks. Caregiver was allowed to be present before receiving notification from the criminal background check unit that the caregiver was eligible. This was corrected when this caregiver was removed from the operation. Caregiver's fingerprinting appointmnet was scheduled for 5/9/2024 during inspection.

Moderate Corrected

An infant did not have feeding instructions on file.

Minor Corrected

Five employee files were missing date of employment.

Minor Corrected

A policy on breastfeeding was missing.

Critical Corrected

The operation has not been inspected by the fire department.

Serious Corrected

The operation has not been inspected for gas leaks.

Serious Corrected

The operation has not been inspected by the health department.

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Data Source: texas_dfps — Last updated: Mar 4, 2026
Data is provided as-is from public government records. It may not reflect changes since the last inspection.