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    Florida data glitch led a newspaper to report that restaurant had closed

    By Gabrielle Russon, Poynter.org,

    12 days ago
    https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=3utrPI_0sq5bQF400
    A glitch in Florida state data mistakenly had the Hammered Lamb restaurant in Orlando, pictured here, closed for health violations. A restaurant that had occupied the address 11 years earlier breached the rules. [ Gabrielle Russon/Poynter ]

    The Orlando Sentinel reported the Hammered Lamb restaurant shut down in March because of flying insects, roach feces and other health inspection violations.

    Turns out, this was news to the Hammered Lamb.

    An error in Florida’s state data confused the Hammered Lamb with a vegan restaurant, the true culprit that had failed a state health inspection and was forced to temporarily close.

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