The Florida Senate

948.11  Electronic monitoring devices.--

(1)(a)  The Department of Corrections may, at its discretion, electronically monitor an offender sentenced to community control.

(b)  The Department of Corrections shall electronically monitor an offender sentenced to criminal quarantine community control 24 hours per day.

(2)  Any offender placed on community control who violates the terms and conditions of community control and is restored to community control may be supervised by means of an electronic monitoring device or system.

(3)  For those offenders being electronically monitored, the Department of Corrections shall develop procedures to determine, investigate, and report the offender's noncompliance with the terms and conditions of sentence 24 hours per day. All reports of noncompliance shall be immediately investigated by a community control officer.

(4)  The Department of Corrections may contract with local law enforcement agencies to assist in the location and apprehension of offenders who are in noncompliance as reported by the electronic monitoring system. This contract is intended to provide the department a means for providing immediate investigation of noncompliance reports, especially after normal office hours.

(5)  Any person being electronically monitored by the department as a result of placement on community control shall be required to pay a surcharge as provided in s. 948.09(2).

History.--s. 5, ch. 87-211; s. 37, ch. 89-526; ss. 4, 9, ch. 91-280; s. 15, ch. 93-227; s. 16, ch. 2004-373.

Note.--Subsections (1)-(4) former s. 948.03(3).