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16 verbatim mandatory provisions from AO 2018-13 (Vacates AO 2017-41) Courthouse Security.
First Judicial Circuit. Check the order's own effective and rescission dates before relying on it. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
• Any person who wishes to enter a Secure Facility shall enter through authorized entrances only. 4. • A notice shall be posted at each entrance to a Secure Facility advising the public that possession of a weapon or firearm therein is strictly forbidden; that the weapon or firearm will be confiscated; and, that the possessor will be subject to punishment by contempt of court and/or criminal prosecution, pursuant to FS§790.06(12). 5. • All persons, including employees, entering a Secure Facility shall be subject to search by security personnel for weapons, destructive devices, and/or hazardous materials. • Any person who refuses to submit to a search of his or her person or of his or her personal belongings or other items shall be denied entry to any Secure Facility. 7. • Any person possessing any weapon, destructive device or hazardous material as defined herein and/or as defined by Florida Law, subject to the limited exceptions outlined below, shall be denied entry to a Secure Facility. • If any illegal weapon, concealed weapon, destructive device, hazardous material, prohibited item or other contraband is discovered, the weapon, destructive device, hazardous material, prohibited item or other contraband shall be seized and law enforcement officials shall respond accordingly to the need for disposal or removal of the seized property. 9. • Sworn Investigators of the Office of State Attorney and members of the judiciary assigned to the First Judicial Circuit are considered extensions of the officers specifically assigned to provide security for the Secure Facilities and shall be permitted to retain possession of their weapons while in an official capacity within a Secure Facility. 12. • Each CEMT by county within the First Judicial Circuit may determine whether and under what circumstances such officers are to be allowed to maintain possession of weapons within the Secure Facilities located within the respective counties, and the CEMT of each county shall develop policies for appropriate screening of such officers in coordination with the relevant law enforcement agencies. 14. • At the discretion of each Court Emergency Management Team (CEMT) by county within the First Judicial Circuit, private security service company personnel who are licensed to carry weapons under chapter 493, Florida Statutes, and who are acting in the professional capacity of the delivery and collection of funds to and from agencies located within the Secure Facility, are authorized to retain their weapons only to the point of the Secure Facility's security checkpoint area, at which point they shall be required to secure their weapons in the provided weapon locker, if applicable, before proceeding any further into the Secure Facility. 16. • Any Law Enforcement Officer, involved in a proceeding in his or her personal capacity and not specifically in an official capacity as a Law Enforcement Officer shall surrender any items which the general public would be required to surrender to the proper authorities before entry into a Secure Facility will be permitted. • Persons who have been issued authorized security photo identification by Court Administration or the designated issuing authority, and present said identification to security personnel at a Secure Facility shall not routinely be subject to search when entering a Secure Facility. • Authorized photo identification shall be exhibited at all times while in a Secure Facility. 19. • Nothing contained within this order shall be construed to preclude authorized employees of the respective counties or contracted vendors to the counties or courts within the First Judicial Circuit delegated with duties for repair and maintenance of either the county’s or courts’ facilities or equipment therein from carrying and using the tools of their trade for construction or repairs. • Further, all tools and equipment brought into the Secure Facility shall remain in the full view, custody and control of the employee or contractor at all times. • Any breach of security measures by anyone employed at a Secure Facility shall be subject to review by the Court Emergency Management Team responsible for the specific Secure Facility. • DEFINITIONS: “Contraband” is any article or substance, the possession of which is illegal. “Destructive Device” is any device defined in §790.001(4), Florida Statutes. “Hazardous Material” is any material which may present a danger to human life or health. “Security personnel” as used in this Administrative Order shall mean (1) sworn officers assigned to provide security for the Secure Facilities and (2) civilian security guards under contract to provide security services at the authorized entrances to the Secure Facilities. “Weapon” is any instrument which is designed for or which could be used for, offensive or defensive combat, and includes, but is not limited to, firearms, chemical devices, ammunition, slingshots, stun-guns, dirks, billies and knives, including common pocket knives.
Any person who wishes to enter a Secure Facility shall enter through authorized entrances only. 4.
Reviewer note: Document sha256: 566440effaed030d637cdfe951efac7667153405006498c2fbeb3e7ec35378eb (84043 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. Text layer cleaned 2026-09-08 (Phase 3a): page markers removed; wording untouched. 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. [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.