Compilation of Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia
Department 290 - RULES OF DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES
Chapter 290-2 - FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICES
Subject 290-2-2 - DAY CARE CENTERS
Rule 290-2-2-.18 - Notice of Revocation or Emergency Suspension Actions

Universal Citation: GA Rules and Regs r 290-2-2-.18

Current through Rules and Regulations filed through September 23, 2024

(1) The Department shall provide notice of its actions to revoke the license or seek an emergency suspension of the center's license to operate to parents, guardians, and others who may have children in the care of the center. This notice, together with the Department's complaint intake phone number and website, shall be provided to parents, guardians, and others through the following methods:

(a) The posting of the official notice of the revocation or emergency suspension action and any final resolution at the center by Departmental staff in an area that is visible to the parents and guardians whose children attend the center;

(b) The posting of the official notice of the revocation or emergency suspension action and any final resolution on the Department's website; and

(c) The distribution by Departmental staff of a brief notice of the initial filing of action to revoke or suspend the center's license to the parents or guardians, or persons authorized to pick up the children from care for the parents or guardians, who are at the center at the time that the notice of revocation or emergency suspension is posted by the Department.

(2) In addition, the Department may share any notice of the revocation or emergency suspension action and any information pertaining thereto with any other agencies which may have an interest in the welfare of the children in care at the center.

(3) When the Department has posted a notice of revocation and/or emergency suspension actions in the center, the center shall ensure that the notice at the center continues to be visible to the parents, guardians, and others throughout the pendency of the revocation and emergency suspension actions including any appeals. Where the center provides transportation of the children in care to and from the center and the parents, guardians, or others responsible for the care of the children do not come to the center on a regular basis, the center shall send home with the children on the day that it is delivered by Departmental staff copies of the brief notice of the revocation or emergency suspension action to the parents, guardians, or others who are responsible for the care of the children enrolled in the center.

(4) The center shall have posted at the center in an area that is readily visible to the parents, guardians, and others any inspection reports that are prepared by the Department during the pendency of any revocation or emergency suspension action.

(5) It shall be a violation of these rules for the center to permit the removal or obliteration of any notices of revocation, emergency suspension action, resolution, or inspection survey reports posted by the Department on the premises of the center during the pendency of any revocation or emergency suspension action.

O.C.G.A. Secs. 49-5-1et seq., 49-5-12, 50-13-4.

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