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Venue Authority

California regulator coverage

Look up the regulator records behind California venues.

Venue Authority currently serves 87,754 source-scoped records from 1 admitted source. The collection includes alcohol license records.

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87,754

Source-scoped records

1

Regulator sources

12

Leading localities shown

Aug 14, 2026, 21:39 UTC

Latest validated snapshot

Current regulator sources

Counts are source-scoped. When two datasets cover the same physical location, Venue Authority does not present their combined count as a unique-business total. A refresh-due snapshot remains available while Venue Authority retries its source.

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87,754 records

California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, Daily Data Export.

Venue Authority selects active licence types, normalizes premise fields, and reduces repeated licence types by the regulator File Number.

Validated snapshot
Aug 14, 2026, 21:39 UTC
Source identifier
california-abc-active-licenses-daily-export
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Where current records are concentrated

These are the leading locality labels published by the admitted sources. They describe record concentration, not a count of distinct legal businesses.

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