Tulare County commercial kitchen compliance

Tulare County operates the "Tulare County Retail Food Inspection Program" with a hybrid methodology distinct from every other CA jurisdiction documented this session: numeric 100-point score AND violation-severity-driven pass/fail binary, with pass/fail and score functioning as INDEPENDENT outputs. Each inspection begins at 100 points; violations deduct points (critical-risk violations weighted 2-4 points each per Visalia Times-Delta). The score is displayed publicly with the full violations list. A separate "did not pass" classification is applied to facilities found with major or critical risk violations -- this classification is triggered by violation PRESENCE, not by score crossing a threshold. Evidence: Visalia Times-Delta coverage of January 2025 inspections lists facilities scoring 87 and 88 in the "did not pass" category alongside facilities scoring 78 and 79, definitively confirming pass/fail is decoupled from score. No letter grade overlay. No placard system. Six inspection categories: Demonstration of knowledge, Protection from contamination, Employee health and hygienic practices, Preventing contamination by hand, Time and temperature relationships, Food from approved sources. Notable cross-modal behavior: EHD inspectors observe fire suppression Ansul tag status during food inspections (samples: Bravo Farms, Del Pacifico) -- layering Fire AHJ jurisdiction observations into food safety records, which is structurally distinct from other CA counties where fire suppression is the sole jurisdiction of the Fire AHJ. Authority: California Retail Food Code. Distinctive infrastructural feature: Tulare County EH operates its own dedicated web domain (tularecountyeh.org).