Return to IndexADMINISTRATIVE ORDER 1.280 [New Order No. 5.280]
November 9, 1979
1. The Division of Youth Services shall mail to the Chief Judge (or his designee), and to the State Attorney and Public Defender of the 3rd, 7th, and 8th Judicial Circuits a copy of the daily roster of detainees confined at the Division's Juvenile Detention Center located at Gainesville. The roster shall contain the name of each detainee, the date of initial detention and the county for which he or she is detained and the cause of detention.
2. The Clerk of the Circuit Court of Alachua County shall immediately, following the entry of a detention order by that court, mail a copy of such order to the Clerk of the Circuit Court of the county for which any child named therein is being detained.
3. This Order shall become effective November 21, 1979, and is intended to facilitate the application of Rule 8.050(c) Fla. R. Juv. P.
/Signed
Theron A. Yawn Jr., Chief Judge
Eighth Judicial Circuit of Florida
The Division of Youth Services' Juvenile Detention Center located at Gainesville serves five of the six counties of the Eighth Circuit, Putnam County in the Seventh Circuit and the Counties of Columbia, Dixie, Hamilton, Lafayette and Suwannee of the Third Circuit. Detention hearings for juveniles detained for those counties are conducted by the Circuit Court of Alachua County under Rule 8.050(c) Fla. R. Juv. P.
Frequently, the fact of entry of a detention order by the Circuit Court of Alachua County is not communicated to the courts and officials of the county having final responsibility for the trial and disposition of the case causing the child to unnecessarily languish in detention without communication with court appointed counsel who will ultimately represent him and who may find it exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, to travel 100 miles or so to Gainesville from Jasper or Daytona Beach to interview a future client for whom he has not yet been appointed.
The purpose of this Order is to insure that the court for which a child is being detained is given prompt notice of the fact of such detention and prevent the absence of that notice to impede the progress of the case.