Wisconsin Department of Children and Families - Division of Early Care and Education
Bureau of Early Care Regulation
Child Care Licensing Procedure Manual
Reasonable certainty is the standard of proof that must be met before the licensing specialist can find that a rule violation(s) has occurred. Reasonable certainty is defined as a preponderance of the credible evidence, generally assumed to be 51 percent certainty or better. While some amount of conflicting evidence may exist at the end of the investigation, the licensing specialist should believe that other reasonable, fair-minded people looking at all aspects of the collected evidence would conclude that more likely than not, the event occurred in the way the licensing specialist asserts.
This page last updated 01/2017.