A Chandler mother’s crusade against unsanitary restaurant playgrounds has prompted proposed changes to Maricopa County’s health code.
“This is a giant step in the right direction,” said Erin Carr-Jordan, 37, a mother of four with a Ph.D. in developmental psychology.
She has been working with Supervisor Fulton Brock and other county officials on the wording of the potential regulations, which would expand the county’s oversight of restaurant-cleanliness inspections to include play areas. They also would require sanitized cleaning of those areas after every shift, detailed cleaning protocols, permanent signs encouraging children’s hand washing before meals and immediate closure of the play areas “when vomiting and/or fecal accidents occur.”