Legal Opinion
Smallwood v. STATE DEPT. OF HUMAN RES.
Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama
Decided February 20, 1998No. 2961009PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Mary Smallwood operated a daycare center in Lanett for 27 years. On March 5, 1996, the Department of Human Resources ("DHR") suspended her license to operate a group daycare home, pending an investigation of reports that she had sexually abused three children, had emotionally abused one child, and had violated the DHR minimum standards with respect to corporal punishment and parental accessibility to her daycare center.
In May 1996, DHR conducted a combined child abuse/prerevocation of license hearing at which it alleged, and offered evidence to prove, the following grounds for revoking…
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