Regulating games at day camps

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - April 20, 2011

That's after state health officials yanked a proposal that threatened the future of those mainstays of child's play.

Towns, villages and other camp operators had started revamping upcoming indoor summer programs after the health department sent out a long list of games and activities it said presented a "significant risk of injury" and needed to be regulated more closely.

Now the department says rules proposed under the previous administration were too specific.

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