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Kent Municipal Jail
- ratingGrade pending
- inspection score15 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedOctober 28, 2025
- address1230 S Central Ave, Kent 98032
Is Kent Municipal Jail clean?
Seattle currently lists Kent Municipal Jail as grade pending, following an inspection on October 28, 2025 that scored 15 points. The city has not posted a letter yet, and it will not until a re-inspection settles it.
What did inspectors find at Kent Municipal Jail?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 28, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧻grimy wiping cloths3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
- ❓food from an unapproved sourcecritical0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities
When was Kent Municipal Jail last inspected?
Kent Municipal Jail has 5 inspections on record going back to April 5, 2023, averaging 5 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 28, 2025 | no grade issued ⏳ | 15 pts |
| June 3, 2025 | no grade issued ⏳ | 5 pts |
| October 15, 2024 | no grade issued ⏳ | 2 pts |
| November 28, 2023 | no grade issued ⏳ | 2 pts |
| April 5, 2023 | no grade issued ⏳ | 0 pts |
Kent Municipal Jail vs Kent
Kent runs 78% clean across 360 tracked restaurants — 281 clean, 74 mid, 5 cooked.
Against the 360 spots Cooked tracks in Kent, this one comes out cleaner than 24% of them.
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How Seattle grades restaurants
Public Health — Seattle & King County posts a word, not a letter: Excellent, Good, Okay, or Needs To Improve. The rating is deliberately not a snapshot — it averages the establishment’s recent routine inspections, so one bad day does not sink a consistently clean kitchen and one good day does not rescue a bad one. Inspectors score violations in red points for things that directly cause foodborne illness and blue points for everything else; around 45 red points triggers a mandatory re-inspection. Newly opened or recently changed spots can show as Not Rated until enough inspections accumulate.
Source: Public Health — Seattle & King County via King County Open Data. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated October 28, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.