Rivera

Maria Rivera appeals from an order denying her motion for preliminary injunction. Appellant had held the position of eligibility worker II with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services (DPSS); she had also been a client of DPSS and a recipient of public social services from aid to families with dependent children (AFDC). Appellant alleged that on May 16, 1975, she received a notice of discharge from her position; the discharge was based on the allegation that she had accepted overpayments as a recipient of funds from DPSS under the AFDC program.

The complaint for injunction further alleged that appellant made a timely request for a hearing to the civil service commission. In June 1977, a discharge hearing was held before a civil service commission hearing officer. Appellant’s representative, relying on Welfare and Institutions Code section 10850, moved that the applications and records *1004 concerning appellant as a client of DPSS were confidential and that those records should not be examined in the course of the civil service commission hearing. The commission hearing officer decided that the code section did not prohibit the use of the records in…