Senate Bill 0930

    Florida Senate - 1998                                   SB 930

    By Senator Campbell





    33-783-98

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to notification of an escaped

  3         prisoner; amending s. 960.001, F.S.; requiring

  4         that a state correctional facility, county

  5         jail, juvenile detention facility, or

  6         residential commitment facility immediately

  7         notify the sentencing judge of an escaped

  8         offender; providing an effective date.

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

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12         Section 1.  Paragraph (p) of subsection (1) of section

13  960.001, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:

14         960.001  Guidelines for fair treatment of victims and

15  witnesses in the criminal justice and juvenile justice

16  systems.--

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

18  attorneys, the Department of Corrections, the Department of

19  Juvenile Justice, the Parole Commission, the State Courts

20  Administrator and circuit court administrators, the Department

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

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

23  943.10(4) shall develop and implement guidelines for the use

24  of their respective agencies, which guidelines are consistent

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

26  State Constitution and are designed to implement the

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

28  to achieve the following objectives:

29         (p)  Information concerning escape from a state

30  correctional institution, county jail, juvenile detention

31  facility, or residential commitment facility.--In any case

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    Florida Senate - 1998                                   SB 930
    33-783-98




  1  where an offender escapes from a state correctional

  2  institution, county jail, juvenile detention facility, or

  3  residential commitment facility, immediate notification shall

  4  be made by the institution of confinement shall immediately

  5  notify to the state attorney of the jurisdiction where the

  6  criminal charge or petition for delinquency arose and the

  7  judge who imposed the sentence of incarceration.  The state

  8  attorney shall thereupon make every effort to notify the

  9  victim, material witness, parents or legal guardian of a minor

10  who is a victim or witness, or immediate relatives of a

11  homicide victim of the escapee.  The state attorney shall also

12  notify the sheriff of the county where the criminal charge or

13  petition for delinquency arose.  The sheriff shall offer

14  assistance upon request.

15         Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

16  law.

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19                          SENATE SUMMARY

20    Provides that if an offender escapes from a state
      correctional facility, county jail, juvenile detention
21    facility, or residential commitment facility, any such
      institution that held the offender must immediately
22    notify the judge who sentenced the offender to
      incarceration.
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