May 2016

LPN’s license revoked for diverting meds and failing to undergo examination.

Professional Licensing

A licensed practical nurse (LPN) was ordered by the Georgia Board of Nursing to undergo a mental/physical examination following conduct in 2012 involving diverting narcotics, destroying records, and testing positive for opiates.  The Board sought to revoke the LPN’s license after she failed to comply with the Board’s order, and continued to engage in misconduct […]

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Revocation of registration to operate daycare does not require denial of paraprofessional license.

Educators

The Professional Standards Commission denied Petitioner’s paraprofessional license application due to a 2012 arrest that resulted in the revocation of her registration to operate a daycare center.  Petitioner was arrested for Cruelty to Children in 2012 due to her conduct in leaving children in her care alone with a gun and subsequently allowing two of

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Driver did not refuse test where he provided one adequate breath sample.

DUI

A driver agreed to submit to a state-administered breath test after he was arrested for DUI and read the implied consent notice.  During the test, the driver provided one adequate breath sample, but failed to provide a second sample.  The officer thereafter indicated on the form initiating license suspension proceedings that the driver refused to

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Employee was not provided with adequate notice of grounds for demotion.

Employment

A community service board was not authorized to demote a classified employee for alleged “misconduct,” “inefficiency in performing assigned duties” and “conduct reflecting discredit” on the board where the notice of the proposed demotion provided only that the board had received complaints from six employees, without describing the complaints or identifying the complainants.  Further, the

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Facility’s failure to provide adequate supervision during outing resulted in resident’s death.

Health Law

The owner of a personal care home organized a river tubing outing for four of its residents, all of whom had some level of cognitive impairment.  The owner was the only staff member on hand to supervise the residents during the outing, and was unable to supervise one of the residents, who separated from the

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Lack of utilities in candidate’s purported home refutes residence claim.

Elections

A candidate for the Georgia legislature failed to establish that he met residency requirements in the district for which he sought office where his purported home in the district was without water service during the time he claimed to have resided there.  Further, the candidate’s driver’s license, mail, pay stubs, and voter registration did not

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