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Resource ID: #26900
Subject: Restaurants
Source: CU-CitizenAccess.org
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Date: 2014-10-01

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The publicizing of restaurant inspections across the United States is a common practice. But the Champaign-Urbana Public Health Diistrict - until January 2014 - would only release the results of a restaurant inspection if a member of the public submitted a Freedom of Information request. So after a Hepatitis A outbreak from at a local restaurant, CU-CitizenAccess.org decided it was time to make public the results of inspections of restaurants that failed to meet public health standards. For four years, reporters and student reporters at CU-CitizenAccess.org relentessly filed monthly requests for the inspections of failed restaurant, painstakingly downloading data, and wrote story after story - and last year, public health department finally went public with its restaurant inspections.

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