Burleson v. Department of Administration, Division of Personnel

WIGGINTON, Judge.

Burleson appeals from a Department of Administration letter which informed her the department was “without jurisdiction” to consider her administrative appeal from an earlier action of the Parole Commission, her former employer. We agree with the appellant that the department effectively denied her an opportunity to be heard pursuant to Section 120.57, Florida Statutes (1979), and we remand.

We are asked to decide this appeal on the strength of a record composed solely of letters among the parties. From this correspondence, we have reconstructed these facts: In December, 1979,…