Florida Senate - 2005                      COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
    Bill No. SB 172
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11  The Committee on Criminal Justice (Lynn) recommended the
12  following amendment:
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14         Senate Amendment 
15         On page 2, line 30, through
16            page 4, line 8, delete those lines
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18  and insert:  representative of the commission or authority. To
19  the extent possible, local law enforcement officers shall
20  assist the probation officer, upon request, in making a
21  warrantless arrest, taking the releasee or parolee into
22  custody, and transporting the releasee or parolee to the
23  county jail.
24         Section 2.  Paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section
25  948.06, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
26         948.06  Violation of probation or community control;
27  revocation; modification; continuance; failure to pay
28  restitution or cost of supervision.--
29         (1)(a)1.  Whenever within the period of probation or
30  community control there are reasonable grounds to believe that
31  a probationer or offender in community control has violated
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    Florida Senate - 2005                      COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
    Bill No. SB 172
                        Barcode 462754
 1  his or her probation or community control in a material
 2  respect, any law enforcement officer who is aware of the
 3  probationary or community control status of the probationer or
 4  offender in community control or any parole or probation
 5  supervisor may arrest or request any county or municipal law
 6  enforcement officer to arrest the such probationer or offender
 7  without warrant wherever found and forthwith return him or her
 8  to the court granting such probation or community control. To
 9  the extent possible, local law enforcement officers shall
10  assist the probation officer, upon request, in making a
11  warrantless arrest, taking the probationer or offender into
12  custody, and transporting the probationer or offender to the
13  county jail.
14         2.  Whenever within the period of probation or
15  community control there are reasonable grounds to believe that
16  a probationer or offender in community control has violated
17  his or her probation or community control in a material
18  respect, any law enforcement officer or parole or probation
19  supervisor who is aware of the probationary or community
20  control status of the probationer or offender in community
21  control and who is aware that the probationer or offender has
22  a history of convictions for violence shall arrest the
23  probationer or offender without warrant wherever found and
24  forthwith return him or her to the court granting the
25  probation or community control. To the extent possible, local
26  law enforcement officers shall assist the probation officer,
27  upon request, in making a warrantless arrest, taking the
28  probationer or offender into custody, and transporting the
29  probationer or offender to the county jail.
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