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18 verbatim mandatory provisions from AO 2002-74 Establishment of Work Release Program in Escambia County.
First Judicial Circuit. Check the order's own effective and rescission dates before relying on it. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Verbatim from the order's own text layer, harvested 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. No OCR was used. Only sentences containing mandatory language (shall, must, may not, no later than, within N) are reproduced — the full document is in custody and is the controlling text. • Further, that all administrative regulation and management of defendants within this program shall be directed in accordance with the following: 1. • The Work Release Program for Escambia County is hereby established effective June 1, 2002, and shall continue in Escambia County under the authority of §951.24, Florida Statutes, and pursuant to this order. 2. • Any judge in Escambia County desiring to utilize the Work Release Program, when probation is not a part of the sentence, shall specify that the defendant serve his/her jail time in the Work Release Program, if eligible, and refer the defendant to the Escambia County Department of Community Corrections for processing. • Probation shall not be a requirement for participating in the Work Release Program. -- 1 of 3 -- 3. • When a defendant is ordered to serve time in the Work Release Program, the Clerk shall prepare and furnish disposition of information to the Escambia County Department of Community Corrections. 4. • The date on which a defendant is admitted into the Work Release Program shall be fixed by the Escambia County Department of Community Corrections staff. • The Escambia County Department of Community Corrections shall provide supervision of defendants prior to admission into and during admission in the Work Release Program. 5. • The Escambia County Department of Community Corrections shall accept each Work Release defendant on a space available basis; however, the Escambia County Department of Community Corrections will not be required to retain any defendant in the program if the participant fails to appear when scheduled or violates any rule or regulation promulgated by the Escambia County Department of Community Corrections. 6. • The Escambia County Department of Community Corrections may reject any defendant from the program by notifying the Judge assigned to the case in writing and copying said notice to the Clerk, as soon as possible, but no later than the next business day, that the defendant has been rejected. • Upon the Escambia Department of Community Corrections’ finding a defendant not qualified, the defendant shall be transferred to the Escambia County Jail to complete his/her sentence. 7. • For that reason, all orders utilizing work release shall provide that the defendant will not partake of drugs or alcohol. 8. • If it develops that a defendant is not employed or becomes unemployed, the Work Release time shall be converted to straight time and said defendant will be transferred to the County Jail to complete his/her sentence. 9. • In the event of conflicting commitments under separate court orders, the commitment for straight time shall take precedence, and the Escambia County Department of Community Corrections shall notify the Court of any conflict. 10. • To help defray the cost of the program, each prisoner while housed in the Work Release Program facility shall be required to pay the Escambia County Department of Community Corrections $15.00 per day, with the first week paid in advance. • In the event of default, privileges of the Work Release Program shall be forfeited. • If a Work Release defendant has paid in advance and his/her sentence is converted to straight time, any unearned funds shall be credited toward the $50.00 per day lien. • If released, said unearned funds shall be returned to the defendant. 13. • Florida Statutes §316.193(6)(b) requires that persons convicted of driving under the influence (DUI) a second time within a period of 5 years after the date of a prior conviction of DUI shall be imprisoned for not less than 10 days and at least 48 hours of that confinement be consecutive.
Further, that all administrative regulation and management of defendants within this program shall be directed in accordance with the following: 1.
Reviewer note: Document sha256: b68aa45c9f7a6425382965342dc65e2b71ce49b9d7bcda243cd5defe24b1de02 (64681 bytes). BenchPath harvested this circuit itself because no research corpus existed for it. Extraction is conservative: mandatory-language sentences only, so this rule is a faithful subset of the order, never a summary of it.
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