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After 86 children at two of Sunny Side Day Care Center’s locations became ill with a staph bacteria, questions arose. The Montgomery Advertiser reports Sunny Side is one of Alabama’s unlicensed, “church-exempt” centers and thus is not necessarily inspected by any state officials. Thus, the center’s failure to meet fire safety standards and inconsistency in food reports have gone largely unnoticed. 
“Alabama is one of about a dozen states that have 'church-exempt' day care centers. Sunny Side is one of them. The centers were not licensed, and do not have to abide by any minimum state standards… little or no oversight is mandated.”
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