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71.6% of citations with a class available are Class 3 vs. 1.0% Class 1. The vast majority of citations are from less serious findings: 25,245 Class 3 citations vs. 369 Class 1 citations out of 35,272.
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Half of Florida children under 5 live where 71.7 or more licensed spots lie within five miles of every 100 of them, a tenth live where 27.7 or fewer do, and 13,086 live with no licensed spot within five miles at all.
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Three topics accounted for 43.2% of Florida’s recorded findings: health or food records, staff training, and equipment or emergency readiness.
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The 19-city comparison ranged from 22.7 in Gainesville, Alachua County to 187.1 in Lakeland, Polk County.
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