City council plans hearing into why hundreds of children still get lead poisoning (US)

he Baltimore City Council announced plans Monday to hold an investigative hearing into why hundreds of children are still getting lead poisoning — a preventable condition officials vowed to eradicate six years ago. … A top state environmental official said the agency’s enforcement efforts also are hampered by disjointed record-keeping. Property registrations, inspections and enforcement actions are all logged in different databases that cannot easily be cross-checked. Upgrading and integrating those disparate information systems would cost nearly $1 million, he said in the article, adding that the agency hopes to do that. Read more: Baltimore Sun, January 11, 2016