The Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) Council appropriately revoked the POST certification of a corrections officer after she abandoned her assigned post at Hancock State Prison in order to have an inmate perform unauthorized cosmetic services on her elsewhere in the facility.
A nursing home resident proved that his property was worth significantly less than was alleged by the Division of Family and Children Services by submitting the affidavit of a realtor and a retroactive broker’s price opinion. Therefore, DFCS’s assessment of a transfer of assets penalty was inappropriate.
Transfer penalty inappropriate because real property was sold for current market value. Read More
The state established that a driver had been operating her vehicle while intoxicated, despite the fact that the arresting officer never actually witnessed her driving, by presenting two witnesses who testified that they had witnessed the driver operate her vehicle, become involved in a collision, and quickly park her car before the officer arrived.
The Department of Driver’s Services properly revoked a driver’s license because the driver suffered a loss of consciousness and his providers did not thereafter produce documentation that he had been free of episodes of unconsciousness for one year.
Revocation of driver’s license upheld where driver susceptible to loss of consciousness. Read More
A citizen of Belize who was flown into Georgia to receive treatment after a butane tank explosion in Belize was not entitled to Emergency Medicaid because he did not establish Georgia residency.
Receipt of Emergency Medicaid requires proof of Georgia residency. Read More
A driver who was involved in a collision in Alpharetta left the scene of the accident and returned to her home in Roswell. The Alpharetta officer who investigated the collision subsequently arrested the driver for DUI at her home in Roswell. This arrest was improper and invalidated the resultant suspension of the driver’s license, because
