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Administrative Order 2025-02 (Uniform Bond Schedule and Pretrial Release Procedures), as amended by its 1st Amendment (June 23, 2026), governs bond amounts and pretrial release across the Second Circuit. BenchPath holds both the base order and the 1st Amendment as verified PDFs.
Criminal pretrial matters, all six counties. Read with AO 2019-06 (First Appearance and Pretrial Detention Procedures, reached a 2nd Amendment) and AO 2021-06 (Pre-Bond Mental Health Screening).
• Pursuant to section 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. A violation of either of these conditions of pretrial release subjects the arrestee to revocation of bond. • In addition to the bond amounts listed above in (h)(1)-(3), the following additional release conditions are imposed: i. The requirements of section 316.193(9)(a)-(c), Fla. Stat. have been satisfied, and; ii. No possession or consumption of alcohol, and; iii. In those counties where available, random testing to ensure compliance with sub-subparagraph ii. by any method or device available to the pretrial release authority in the county of arrest. i. Felony Drug Offenses: In addition to the bond amounts for any felony drug offense the following additional release conditions are imposed: For persons arrested for a felony violation of Chapter 893, Florida Statutes, the person shall neither possess drugs nor consume any drug for which the person does not have a prescription, and random urinalysis shall be required, in those counties where available. In those counties having a supervised pretrial release program, the person arrested will be subject to supervision of the pretrial release program even though a monetary bond may also be required. The person arrested shall pay all costs of testing and supervision, absent a court order to the contrary. j. Any felony offense in which the defendant is alleged to Bond: None have actually possessed or discharged a firearm. First Appearance Required • If a person arrested is eligible for bond under this bond schedule, but the police, county jail, or pretrial release employees are unable to determine their status under section 903.011(6), Florida Statutes, the defendant shall be required to attend a first appearance hearing. II. WARRANTS Bond for persons arrested on a warrant will be set as follows: • Arrest Warrants: a. In the amount provided for in the warrant itself. b. If the warrant is silent as to a bond amount, then the bond will be set in accordance with the provisions of this administrative order’s circuit-wide bond schedule. • Violation of Probation or Failure to Appear Warrants: a. In the amount provided for in the warrant itself. b. If the warrant is silent as to a bond amount, then there will be no bond and first appearance is required.
Pursuant to section 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. A violation of either of these conditions of pretrial release subjects the arrestee to revocation of bond.
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. 2 further paragraph(s) were left out because their OCR is too corrupt to quote. Text layer cleaned 2026-09-08 (Phase 3f): page headers/footers, ligatures and letter-spaced headings normalised; wording untouched. Verbatim from the operative section of this order, re-extracted 2026-07-26; whitespace normalised only. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]
9 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1997-10.
6 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1997-13.