Griffin v. Arkansas Department of Health & Human Services

D.P. MARSHALL JR., Judge.

11Arkansas put Michael Griffin’s name on the Child Maltreatment Central Registry after the State Police concluded that abuse allegations against him were true. Griffin, a National Guard member, appealed the findings almost three years later. He claimed that the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Civil Relief Act applied, thereby tolling his deadline to appeal while he was in active service. The DHS hearing officer — essentially an administrative law judge — concluded that the Act applied, but that Griffin’s appeal was still untimely. She ordered that his name remain on the…