Occupancy licensing looks up a tradesperson on the state professional-license board, which lists a phone; a people-search scrape shows a different number. Which source should lead for civic identity?
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Short Explanation
The state board is the official roster; the people-search scrape is a rummage bin. For a tradesperson’s civic identity, start with the license listing and treat aggregator phones as maybe. A bio with no license number does not win.
Full Explanation
Official professional-license boards are authoritative public registries for a tradesperson’s civic identity, including published contact fields. People-search scrapes often fuse records and stale numbers, so they rank lower. License-board phones are citable public data when the board publishes them. A social bio without a license number cannot outrank the registry for occupancy licensing.