Crossposted from Public Health Insider 

Full inspection histories of all King County restaurants have been available online since 2001. For the past 16 years, inspection results could be searched on a website that, we admit, was starting to show its age. That’s why we partnered with King County Information Technology (KCIT) to create a restaurant inspection search tool to go along with our brand new Food Safety Rating System. We have always valued making information available to the public and this new search tool makes it even easier to find information to make informed decisions when eating out.

We sat down with Alex Aragon and Beth Cheatham, from the KCIT team that created the search tool, to talk about the process of developing the tool and all of its cool features.

Read more at Public Health Insider