This guide is intended to inform juveniles about the Delinquency process, and provides useful information about every hearing, including definitions of those terms that may be unfamiliar to teens. The OFC has produced a comic book guide to Delinquency Court for Teens. What's Going to Happen to Me? English / Spanish / Haitian Creole This guide has been sent to courthouses throughout Florida, and is available to other stakeholders as well. This guide, aimed at youths who come into contact with the Delinquency system, provides helpful information about the Delinquency process, the participants in any hearing and their roles, and possible outcomes. The OFC has produced a Family Guide to Delinquency Court.
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Other Publications Family Guide to Delinquency Court - PDF This flowchart is distributed as part of the Delinquency Benchbook, but due to its popularity, it is provided as a stand-alone document as well. The OFC created a quick-reference flowchart that provides at-a-glance information about the delinquency process. The rules also include some of the forms that are commonly used in each type of case. The rules detail the procedures to follow at each phase of a court case. The Florida Bar continuously updates the procedural rules for all types of court cases.
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For more details about how to develop a school-justice partnership, please click here: Rules and Flowcharts Florida Rules of Juvenile Procedure A school-justice partnership is a collaborative effort among courts, schools, state agencies, service providers, and law enforcement to keep children in school and out of court. This site serves as a how-to-guide to implement and maintain a partnership. Based on the administrative order, the FCC, through the coordination of Office of Family Courts staff developed a School-Justice Partnership Website. The Steering Committee on Families and Children in the Court (FCC) was charged with Administrative Order AOSC14-49: to develop and encourage the implementation of promising practices to help ensure that children involved in dependency and delinquency court stay in school and are less likely to be arrested, suspended, or expelled. The items in bold in the document are hotlinked within the document for quick help during hearings. It can be adapted to include local procedures, and is designed to be used directly from the bench. The outline walks the user through the legal requirements and includes links to statutory references, rules of procedure etc.
Judge Thomas Palermo in the 13 th Judicial Circuit created this outline to aid other judges charged with hearing juvenile detention hearings. It is filled with flowcharts and quick reference guides for ease of use.
The benchbook provides information on every aspect of the delinquency process, examining the requirements of each hearing and what each participant may be expected to do. The Florida Delinquency Benchbook is a comprehensive resource designed to aid judges who are on the delinquency bench or who may expect to hear detention hearings. The Delinquency Benchbook - updated June 2021