Department of Human Resources v. Thompson

HOLLANDER, Judge.

The Child Care Administration of the Department of Human Resources (“CCA”), appellant, denied the application for a family day care registration submitted by Shirley Thompson, appellee. CCA’s decision was predicated on an administrative investigation of child abuse conducted by the Department of Social Services (“DSS”) and a finding by DSS that appellee’s husband had abused the couple’s daughter. We now confront the issue of a litigant’s right to challenge, at a day care registration hearing, a prior administrative finding of child abuse when no quasi-judicial or judicial…