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GEORGIA DEPT. OF HUMAN SERVICES v. STEINER

S18A0281.

815 S.E.2d 883 (2018)

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES, DIVISION OF FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICES v. Christopher STEINER.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided: June 18, 2018.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ross Warren Bergethon , Deputy Solicitor-General, Annette M. Cowart , Senior Assistant Attorney General, Sarah Hawkins Warren , Solicitor-General, Penny Hannah , Assistant Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson , Senior Assistant Attorney General, Andrew Alan Pinson , Christopher M. Carr , Attorney General, Victoria Cuneo Powell , Assistant Solicitor General, Department of Law, 40 Capitol Square, SW, Atlanta, Georgia 30334, Kenneth Gene Lawrence , Turner & Lawrence, PC, 423 South Mulberry Street, Jackson, Georgia 30233, for Appellant.

Joseph Scott Key , Kayci Nicole Dennis , Miller & Key, PA, 79 Lawrenceville Street, McDonough, Georgia 30253, for Appellee.

Andrew Santos Fleischman , Ross & Pines, LLC, 5555 Glenridge Connector, Suite 435, Atlanta, Georgia 30342, Laura D. Hogue , Hogue & Hogue, LLP, P.O. Box 1795, Macon, Georgia 31201, Charles R. Bliss , Atlanta Legal Aid Society, Inc., 54 Ellis Street. NE, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, Lisa Jane Krisher , Georgia Legal Services Program, 104 Marietta Street, N.W., Suite 250, Atlanta, Georgia 30303-2743, Michael Joseph Tafelski , Jamie B.J. Rush , Georgia Legal Services Program, 104 Marietta Street, Suite 240, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, David Alfred Webster, 1145 Hurt Building, 50 Hurt Plaza, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, Mara Leah Block, Atlanta Legal Aid Society, 246 Sycamore Street, Suite 120, Decatur, Georgia 30030, for Amicus Appellee.

The Georgia Department of Human Services, Division of Family and Children Services ("DFCS") appeals from the decision of the Lamar County Superior Court finding that Georgia's central child abuse registry is unconstitutional, both on its face and as applied to appellee Christopher Steiner. The trial court also found that DFCS failed...

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