# Restaurant Citations in my town?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restaurant-citations-in-my-town/267030>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 1, 2004, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restaurant-citations-in-my-town/267030 "2004-10-01T15:20:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Alias](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@Alias](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alias)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restaurant-citations-in-my-town/267030/1 "2004-10-01T15:20:54Z")

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Where can I find a list of health department citations and/or food contamination reports for restaurants in my area? Google is not helping.

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**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restaurant-citations-in-my-town/267030/2 "2004-10-01T15:33:30Z")

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Probably at your local health enforcement office. Your town/county’s website should point you in the right direction.

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**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restaurant-citations-in-my-town/267030/3 "2004-10-01T16:47:34Z")

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Local TV news has it here also, on air as well as on their website.

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**Author:** ![spinky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@spinky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spinky)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restaurant-citations-in-my-town/267030/4 "2004-10-01T18:10:59Z")

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If your town is Seattle, you can find it [here](http://www.decadeonline.com/main.phtml?agency=skc). If not, you might be able to use that site to figure out some keywords to search on.

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**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restaurant-citations-in-my-town/267030/5 "2004-10-01T19:24:20Z")

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The NY Times used to publish the citations every week, until it was discovered that crooked food inspectors were shaking down restaurants that didn’t want to show up in the paper. Damn shame, since that was my favorite column. I used to be able to predict them.