Florida Senate - 2013                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for CS for SB 556
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  04/04/2013           .                                
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       Appropriations Subcommittee on Finance and Tax (Ring)
       recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 471 and 472
    4  insert:
    5         Section 10. Subsection (2) of section 985.045, Florida
    6  Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         985.045 Court records.—
    8         (2) The clerk shall keep all official records required by
    9  this section separate from other records of the circuit court,
   10  except those records pertaining to motor vehicle violations,
   11  which shall be forwarded to the Department of Highway Safety and
   12  Motor Vehicles. Except as provided in ss. 943.053 and
   13  985.04(6)(b) and (7), official records required by this chapter
   14  are not open to inspection by the public, but may be inspected
   15  only upon order of the court by persons deemed by the court to
   16  have a proper interest therein, except that a child and the
   17  parents, guardians, or legal custodians of the child and their
   18  attorneys, law enforcement agencies, the Department of Juvenile
   19  Justice and its designees, the Parole Commission, the Department
   20  of Corrections, and the Justice Administrative Commission shall
   21  always have the right to inspect and copy any official record
   22  pertaining to the child. Public defender offices shall have
   23  access to official records of juveniles on whose behalf they are
   24  expected to appear in detention or other hearings before an
   25  appointment of representation. The court may permit authorized
   26  representatives of recognized organizations compiling statistics
   27  for proper purposes to inspect, and make abstracts from,
   28  official records under whatever conditions upon the use and
   29  disposition of such records the court may deem proper and may
   30  punish by contempt proceedings any violation of those
   31  conditions.
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   34         And the title is amended as follows:
   35         Delete line 30
   36  and insert:
   37         to enforce judgment for costs and fines; amending s.
   38         985.045, F.S.; providing that the office of the public
   39         defender shall have access to certain juvenile records
   40         before an appointment of representation; providing an