Georgia Official and Statistical Register 1983-84 - the Digital Library ...

Investigative Division — J.R. Hamrick, Director. The Investigative Division of the Bureau provides special criminal investigative support services to local law enforcement agenciesthroughout the State. With thirteen regional offices locatedstrategically throughout Georgia and special statewide squadsheadquartered in Atlanta, the Division responds to requestsfrom sheriffs, municipal law enforcement agencies and judicialofficials. Among the special support services provided are:polygraph examiner services, identi-kit operator services, criminal intelligence services, crime prevention staff services, liaisonwith law enforcement agencies outside the State, police training, and coordination of criminal investigations of particularinterest to local law enforcement agencies when those investigations transcend county lines.Georgia Crime Information Center (G.CJ.C.) — Thomas J.McGreevy, Director. The Georgia Crime Information Centeris a statewide technical and information service to Georgia©scriminal justice community. As such, it collects, stores, anddisseminates computerized information about crime and criminals. G.C.I.C. is the central state repository for fingerprintprocessing, computerized criminal history, uniform crimereports, and case disposition reports. Additionally, G.C.I.C.provides the services of its data communications system to overthree hundred Georgia Criminal Justice agencies throughcomputer terminals, thereby providing these agencies withaccess to the National Crime Information Center (N.C.I.C.),other states, and G.C.I.C.©s flies on stolen vehicles, articles,guns, wanted and missing persons, and to the state vehicleregistration flies. With assistance and guidance from the Georgia Crime Information Council, the Director of the Center isresponsible for its development, maintenance and operation.Forensic Sciences Division — Larimore B. Howard, Director and Bryon Dawson, Assistant Director. The ForensicSciences Division, formerly known as the Georgia CrimeLaboratory, is the second oldest such facility in the nation. TheDivision provides investigatory information in all areas offorensic science to the Criminal Justice System, and operatesfacilities in Atlanta, Augusta, Columbus, Moultrie and Savannah. The Director of the Division is also the Chief MedicalExaminer of the State.DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCESThe Georgia Department of Human Resources is the agencyof state government which has primary responsibility for thedelivery of health and social services. The Department annuallyserves more than one million people through direct service andfinancial assistance programs.The mission of the Department of Human Resources is toassist Georgians in achieving their highest levels of health,development, independence and self-sufficiency. The Department©s goals and strategies to achieve that mission are: ahealthier generation of Georgians; economic self-sufficiency;independence among older Georgians; increased productivityand opportunity for the Department©s employees; involvementof community resources in support of priority services; decentralized program management structure; elimination or reduction of unnecessary regulatory activity; and planning at allorganizational levels which focus on outcomes which are consistent with the Department©s strategic plan.The Department©s six divisions include Public Health, Mental Health and Mental Retardation, Rehabilitation Services,Family and Children Services, Youth Services and Administrative Services. An Office of Aging and an Office of Children andYouth coordinate departmental planning and service deliveryto children and elderly people. With more than 28,000 state andcounty employees in 100 human services programs, in 1,500locations and in all 159 counties, the Department is the largestand most complex department in Georgia©s state government.The Department recognizes the complexity of its servicesand the need to provide opportunities for citizens to advise andparticipate in planning and service delivery. Its citizen advisorycouncils relate to aging services, developmental disabilities,family planning, maternal and infant health, child care development, and mental health and mental retardation.DHR is responsible for setting standards of quality in theservices which it delivers directly and for those of private healthand social services agencies. The Department has licensing andregulatory responsibility for child caring centers and institutions, hospitals, nursing homes, home health agencies, ambulatory surgical centers, eye banks, renal dialysis clinics, ruralhealth clinics, rehabilitation centers, laboratories and bloodbanks.The Department©s chief executive officer, the Commissionerof Human Resources, is appointed by and accountable to theState Board of Human Resources. This fifteen member boardis appointed by the Governor to provide general oversight ofthe agency©s activities through the establishment of policy,approval of agency goals and objectives, and other appropriateactivities.The Department, Board and Commissioner are authorizedby OCGA Titles 19, 31, and 49.HISTOR Y. A Board of Public Welfare was created in 1919(Ga. L. 1919, p. 222), which was replaced by Department ofPublic Welfare in 1937 (Ga. L. 1937, p. 355). A Board of SocialSecurity replaced the Department in 1943 (Ga. L. 1943, p. 202).The Board©s functions were transferred in 1960 to a newDepartment of Public Welfare (Ga. L. 1960, p. 85), which wasrenamed the Department of Family and Children Services in1963 (Ga. L. 1963, p. 218).The Department of Human Resources was created by theGeorgia General Assembly in the Governmental Reorganization Act of 1972 (Ga. L. 1972, p. 1015). The Act consolidatedthe Departments of Public Health and Family and ChildrenServices and the Department of Education©s Division of Vocational Rehabilitation and other state human services programs.Board of Human ResourcesBenjamin B. Okel, M.D., Chairman.............. AtlantaHelen G. Byars, Vice-Chairman .......... Stone MountainBenjamin S. Anderson, M.D., Secretary ....... CedartownLamar Akins ..............................BarnesvilleDewitt C. Alfred, Jr., M.D. .................... AtlantaWilliam B. Dunaway......................... MariettaClaybon J. Edwards ....................... Fort ValleyH. Gordon Davis, M.D. ...................... SylvesterLarry Mathison ............................. WaycrossBeverly Long ......................... Stone MountainBernese C. Meyer............................. AtlantaWells Riley, M.D. .......................... JonesborbMary M. Ryman .............................. DaltonLaura S. Vann ............................... CamillaEmory Bohler, M.D.......................... Brooklet46