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
America’s Second Harvests of Coastal Georgia (ASHCG), a participating food service provider in the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP), was required to reimburse the Department of Early Care and Learning (DECAL) for labor costs and insurance premiums. Reimbursement was appropriate in relation to labor costs because CACFP did not comply with federal regulations that require maintenance of
Reimbursement of Child and Adult Care Food Program funds for non-compliance. Read More
The name of a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) could not be placed on the Nurse Aide Registry for neglect of an Alzheimer’s patient because the sole eyewitness was a fellow CNA with whom Petitioner had a history of personal animosity and whose testimony was, therefore, unreliable.
