Senate Bill 0678

    Florida Senate - 1998                                   SB 678

    By Senator Bronson





    18-571-98

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to guidelines for fair

  3         treatment of victims and witnesses in the

  4         justice system; allowing specified state

  5         agencies to participate in crime-prevention and

  6         educational activities; providing an effective

  7         date.

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  9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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11         Section 1.  Paragraph (r) is added to subsection (1) of

12  section 960.001, Florida Statutes, to read:

13         960.001  Guidelines for fair treatment of victims and

14  witnesses in the criminal justice and juvenile justice

15  systems.--

16         (1)  The Department of Legal Affairs, the state

17  attorneys, the Department of Corrections, the Department of

18  Juvenile Justice, the Parole Commission, the State Courts

19  Administrator and circuit court administrators, the Department

20  of Law Enforcement, and every sheriff's department, police

21  department, or other law enforcement agency as defined in s.

22  943.10(4) shall develop and implement guidelines for the use

23  of their respective agencies, which guidelines are consistent

24  with the purposes of this act and s. 16(b), Art. I of the

25  State Constitution and are designed to implement the

26  provisions of s. 16(b), Art. I of the State Constitution and

27  to achieve the following objectives:

28         (r)  Implementing crime-prevention efforts to enhance

29  the protection of individual personal safety and property as

30  prescribed by s. 187.201(7)(b)9., State Comprehensive

31  Plan.--By preventing future crimes that either produce new

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    Florida Senate - 1998                                   SB 678
    18-571-98




  1  victims or further harm former victims, crime-prevention

  2  efforts are an essential part of providing victims and

  3  witnesses with effective service; therefore, the agencies

  4  identified in this subsection may participate in

  5  crime-prevention and educational activities.

  6         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 1998.

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  9                          SENATE SUMMARY

10    Allows specified state agencies to participate in
      crime-prevention and educational activities, as part of
11    their efforts to prevent crime and provide effective
      service to victims and witnesses.
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