Simmons v. Department of Human Resources

Birdsong, Presiding Judge.

David Edward Simmons, Sr., individually and b/n/f of Theresa Marie Simmons, a deceased minor, appeals from the grant of summary judgment to the Georgia Department of Human Resources (“DHR”), DHR Commissioner James G. Ledbetter, Douglas G. Greenwell, Margaret Ward,.Jim Newton, Kay Anderson, Jane Sales, Jennie Williams, John Does, and Mary Does. Simmons filed a wrongful death action against appellees based on the murder of his teenage daughter, Theresa Marie Simmons, after she ran away from a group home in which she was placed by the Department of Family & Children…