Mr. Miller said the city has amended the issues brought up in the audit. All of the day care centers under the city’s purview, including the 70 identified in the audit, have now been tested for lead in the water, he said. The city also said it planned to start posting the results of each location’s water tests online.
Ms. Worthy-Davis said that the lack of clarity in terms of lead-testing protocol for day care centers predated the de Blasio administration, and she noted that “a bureaucratic process made testing standards vague beginning in 2011.”
This month, the health department proposed a change to the health code that would require lead testing at new centers within 30 days of their opening. They would also be required to undergo testing every five years.
But a spokesman from Mr. Stringer’s office said the changes only came about from the results of the auditing process, which were given to the city — and included a response from the health department in the written report — before they were released to the public.
FWIW, this story comes from last June and a brief search didn't turn up any more recent developments.
The only reason it was addressed is because people paid attention and spoke up. But it doesn't seem reasonable to expect that to happen in every circumstance in every government organization. It seems that faith in state regulators is poorly misplaced - they should all be fired and replaced with monitoring systems that run 24/7. ---