TEXAS: Restaurant scores await online legal clearance - (El Paso Times)
June 3, 2008 – 6:31 pmSeveral weeks after the city of El Paso said it would begin posting food inspection scores online, the reports are still, according to this story, caught up in legal limbo.
Officials with the city’s Department of Public Health were cited as saying they are awaiting legal clearance before posting inspection scores on the city’s Web site.
The El Paso Times in April published articles that indicated about 10 percent of the city’s restaurants had failed inspection between September and March. The Times also posted all restaurant inspection scores for that time period at elpasotimes.com.
Shortly after publication, officials with the food inspection program said they would begin posting scores on its Web site at the end of April. Last week, the program was still being reviewed by city attorneys.
Lower Valley resident Esther Castor was quoted as saying, “I find that disappointing. I would just like to see that up and running as soon […]
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