Administrative Order 2026-01 adopts the circuit's 2026 local bond schedule for all four counties; AO 2026-02 Amended revises Exhibit A. Sets standard bond amounts by offense pending first appearance.
All four counties. Historical St. Lucie schedules (AO 2019-07, 2019-10) and the 2023/2025 circuit schedules (AO 2023-08, 2025-02) remain posted but are superseded for 2026.
Verbatim from the operative section of this order, re-extracted 2026-07-26; whitespace normalised only. • Failure to appear at required court proceedings while on bail. In addition, Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.132(a) states: A person arrested for a dangerous crime listed in section 907.041, Florida Statutes, must not be released from jail before his or her first - 5 - appearance. Furthermore, § 907.041(6)(b), Florida Statutes, states: An unauthorized alien who is arrested for committing a forcible felony is not eligible for release until he or she appears for a first appearance hearing. Under § 903.047(1)(a), Florida Statutes, and Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.131(a), an arrested person released from jail before trial must refrain from criminal activity of any kind and must refrain from any contact of any type with the victim, except through pretrial discovery pursuant to the Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure. A violation of either of these conditions of pretrial release subjects the arrestee to revocation of bond. Each crime of arrest requires a separate bond pursuant to § 903.02(4), Florida Statutes, and Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.131. The bond schedule below is effective from January 1, 2026, through December 31, 2026.
Failure to appear at required court proceedings while on bail. In addition, Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.132(a) states: A person arrested for a dangerous crime listed in section 907.041, Florida Statutes, must not be released from jail before his or her first - 5 - appearance. Furthermore, § 907.041(6)(b), Florida Statutes, states: An unauthorized alien who is arrested for committing a forcible felony is not eligible for release until he or she appears for a first appearance hearing. Under § 903.047(1)(a), Florida Statutes, and Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.131(a), an arrested person released from jail before trial must refrain from criminal activity of any kind and must refrain from any contact of any type with the victim, except through pretrial discovery pursuant to the Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure. A violation of either of these conditions of pretrial release su
Reviewer note: | Set to in_review 2026-07-26: the order's subject looks practitioner-facing but the extracted text captured only recitals or an effective date, not the operative ORDERED section. This is an extraction defect, not a judgement that the order is unimportant — it needs re-extraction before it goes back on the published surface. | Re-extracted 2026-07-26 from the numbered paragraphs following the order's ORDERED clause, replacing a first pass that had captured recitals and the effective date. 1 further paragraph(s) were left out because their OCR is too corrupt to quote.
2 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1986-33A.
1 verbatim requirement from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1987-09.