Senate Bill 0930er

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  2         An act relating to notification of an escaped

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

  4         that a state correctional facility, private

  5         correctional facility, county jail, juvenile

  6         detention facility, or residential commitment

  7         facility immediately notify the judge who

  8         sentenced an escaped offender; requiring the

  9         institution or facility of confinement to

10         immediately notify the state attorney and

11         sentencing judge upon the capture and return of

12         the escaped offender; providing an effective

13         date.

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

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

18  960.001, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:

19         960.001  Guidelines for fair treatment of victims and

20  witnesses in the criminal justice and juvenile justice

21  systems.--

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

23  attorneys, the Department of Corrections, the Department of

24  Juvenile Justice, the Parole Commission, the State Courts

25  Administrator and circuit court administrators, the Department

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

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

28  943.10(4) shall develop and implement guidelines for the use

29  of their respective agencies, which guidelines are consistent

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

31  State Constitution and are designed to implement the


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

  2  to achieve the following objectives:

  3         (p)  Information concerning escape from a state

  4  correctional institution, county jail, juvenile detention

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

  6  where an offender escapes from a state correctional

  7  institution, private correctional facility, county jail,

  8  juvenile detention facility, or residential commitment

  9  facility, immediate notification shall be made by the

10  institution of confinement shall immediately notify to the

11  state attorney of the jurisdiction where the criminal charge

12  or petition for delinquency arose and the judge who imposed

13  the sentence of incarceration.  The state attorney shall

14  thereupon make every effort to notify the victim, material

15  witness, parents or legal guardian of a minor who is a victim

16  or witness, or immediate relatives of a homicide victim of the

17  escapee.  The state attorney shall also notify the sheriff of

18  the county where the criminal charge or petition for

19  delinquency arose.  The sheriff shall offer assistance upon

20  request. When an escaped offender is subsequently captured or

21  is captured and returned to the institution of confinement,

22  the institution of confinement shall again immediately notify

23  the appropriate state attorney and sentencing judge pursuant

24  to this section.

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

26  law.

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