The Department of Public Safety properly fined Petitioners, a trucking company and its driver. Petitioners were operating a trailer with axles’ lengths shorter by a half a foot than their permit allowed, resulting in an uneven distribution of weight.
Fine for non-compliance with truck permit. Read More
The Department of Public Safety’s Motor Carrier Compliance Division (MCCD) improperly invalidated Petitioner’s permit to operate a self-propelled crane and assessed a fine. The weighing officer with MCCD had determined that the vehicle was overweight and out of compliance because the contents of an attached metal box, as well as the counter weights used to
Crane found to be weight compliant because added load necessary for safe operation. Read More
The State Road and Tollway Authority (SRTA) properly assessed a fine against Petitioner, a limousine company, for 30 toll violations in failing to stop to pay the toll or to use an operational transponder (i.e., a Peach Pass or Cruise Card) on Georgia State Route 400 (GA 400). In fact, Petitioner did not purchase a
Toll violator ordered to pay fees, costs, and penalties. Read More
The Department of Human Resources was not permitted to terminate Petitioner’s food stamp benefits for failure to provide income verification where it repeatedly failed to provide Petitioner with a Spanish language interpreter in violation of its own foreign language assistance policy. Upon receiving interpretive services, Petitioner supplied the needed verification.
The State was not permitted to reduce the number of skilled nursing hours Petitioner receives under the Georgia Pediatric Program (GAPP). Petitioner needs direct, one-on-one monitoring by a skilled nurse or trained caregiver when he is awake. Because Petitioner’s mother, a single parent, has not been able to find daytime employment she must sleep during
Parent’s work schedule may be considered in determining medically necessary GAPP hours. Read More
Petitioner owned and operated a daycare. Because Petitioner knew she was in violation of a maximum capacity requirement, she hid four children outside during a Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning (DECAL) inspection of the facility. When the children were discovered, she denied that they were students at her daycare and told them to
Sterling reputation as an educator weighed against seriousness of violations. Read More
