D.C. v. Department of Human Services

OPINION BY

PRESIDENT JUDGE LEAVITT

D.C., who has been named as a perpetrator of child abuse in an indicated report, petitions for review of an adjudication of the Department of Human Services’ Bureau of Hearings and Appeals that denied his request for a nunc pro tunc healing.1 In doing so, the Bureau adopted the recommendation of its Administrative Law Judge (ALJ), who concluded that D.C.’s delay in filing his appeal was not caused by a breakdown in the administrative process or non-negligent reasons beyond D.C.’s control. D.C. contends, however, that the Department’s equivocal and confusing…