P.E. v. Department of Public Welfare

SMITH, Judge.

P.E. petitions this Court for review of a final order of the Department of Public Welfare, Office of Hearings and Appeals (OHA), adopting in its entirety the recommendation of a hearing officer to dismiss P.E.’s appeals to expunge his name from an indicated report of child abuse listing him as the perpetrator. P.E. questions whether a hearing *1156officer may dismiss an expunction1 appeal on the basis of a motion to dismiss that was not docketed in the certified record without affording the petitioner notice of the hearing officer’s intention to act on the motion or affording the…