Florida Senate - 2007 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
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11 The Committee on Criminal Justice (Aronberg) recommended the
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14 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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18 Section 3. Section 394.9221, Florida Statutes, is
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20 394.9221 Certified security personnel.--The department
21 or an entity contracting with the department to operate a
22 secure facility under this part is considered an employing
23 agency as that term is defined in s. 943.10 and is authorized
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26 Section 4. Section 916.1091, Florida Statutes, is
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28 916.1091 Duties, functions, and powers of
29 institutional security personnel.--
30 (1) In case of emergency, and when necessary to
31 provide protection and security to any client, to the
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1 personnel, equipment, buildings, or grounds of a department or
2 agency facility, or to citizens in the surrounding community,
3 institutional security personnel may, when authorized by the
4 administrator of the facility or her or his designee when the
5 administrator is not present, use a chemical weapon against a
6 patient housed in a forensic facility. However, such weapon
7 shall be used only to the extent necessary to provide
8 protection and security. Under no circumstances shall any
9 officer carry a chemical weapon on her or his person except
10 during the period of the emergency for which its use was
11 authorized. All chemical weapons shall be placed in secure
12 storage when their use is not authorized as provided in this
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14 (2) The department, the agency, or an entity
15 contracting with the department or agency to operate a
16 forensic facility under this chapter is considered an
17 employing agency as that term is defined in s. 943.10 and is
18 authorized to employ certified correctional officers as
19 institutional security personnel. This authority applies
20 retroactively to all certified officers employed in such
21 capacity beginning January 1, 1974.
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27 And the title is amended as follows:
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31 creating s. 394.9221, F.S.; authorizing the
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1 employment of certified correctional officers
2 at a secure facility; amending s. 916.1091,
3 F.S.; authorizing the employment of certified
4 correctional officers at forensic facilities;
5 providing for such authority to operate
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