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Lax oversight of school construction raises doubts about earthquake safety
- 04-08-2011
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By Corey G. Johnson/California Watch
State regulators have routinely failed to enforce California’s landmark earthquake safety law for public schools, allowing children and teachers to occupy buildings with structural flaws and potential safety hazards reported during construction. Top management with the Division of the State Architect – the chief regulator of school construction – for years did nothing about nearly 1,100 building projects that its own supervisors had red-flagged. Safety defects were logged and then filed away without follow-up from the state. California law requires the state architect’s office to enforce the Field Act – seismic regulations enacted nearly 80 years ago. (more...)
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