Schulman asks whether DOHMH maintains a digital FPC database
Schulman asks questions for Council Member Santoso's Intro 908, including whether a digital database of FPC holders exists. Schiff says DOHMH maintains a database but records are kept for only 10 years, so older certificates may be unavailable, and that record limitations and the volume of 35,000 annual trainees are challenges.
What specific amendment...
I'm going to ask some questions that Councilmember Santososo gave me for her introduction.
Is a digital database of food protection certificate holders currently maintained?
So we do have a database.
Records are maintained for 10 years.
So this is one of the challenges that we would like to discuss with council about the bill, maybe even your chief of staff, depending on how long ago that person got their food protection certificate.
And we have been doing this for a very long time.
We may not have that in the database.
So certainly looking back would be a challenge.
And even just maintaining, as I said, we trained about 35,000 people.
So those are the kinds of things we'd like to talk with you about.
Sure.
What operational changes, and again, this is her legislation, but yes, they're similar.
What operational changes would need to be made in order to create such a database or make it accessible to inspectors?
So we're continuing to think about that, but as I noted, one issue is we can't look back.
Before 10 years ago.
And then going forward, it would be quite an enormous database as we train 35,000 here.