AO 2024-08 Limits on Interviews of Child Abuse and Sexual Abuse… — Okaloosa County, FL · BenchPath

First Cir. — AO 2024-08 Limits on Interviews of Child Abuse and Sexual Abuse Victims who are Under 16 or Victims who have an Intellec

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Meet & ConferFirst Judicial Circuit, AO 2024-08 Limits on Interviews of Child Abuse and Sexual Abuse Victims who are Under 16 or Victims who have an Intellec — harvested live and sha256-hashed 2026-07-24

Summary

9 verbatim mandatory provisions from AO 2024-08 Limits on Interviews of Child Abuse and Sexual Abuse Victims who are Under 16 or Victims who have an Intellec.

Applies to

First Judicial Circuit. Check the order's own effective and rescission dates before relying on it. Procedural information only; not legal advice.

Requirement

• LIMITS ON INTERVIEWS OF CHILD ABUSE AND SEXUAL ABUSE VICTIMS WHO ARE UNDER AGE 16 OR VICTIMS WHO HAVE AN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY This order is issued pursuant to section 914.16, Florida Statutes, which requires the Chief Judge to order reasonable limits on the number of interviews that young or intellectually disabled victims of abuse, sexual abuse, or neglect must submit to for law enforcement or discovery purposes. • To the extent possible, this order shall be construed in conformity with any subsequent amendments to section 914.16 or any statutory section that supersedes section 914.16. • This order shall apply to the investigation and prosecution of: 1. all cases of abuse, sexual abuse, or neglect under chapter 39, Florida Statutes, when a victim is under 16 years of age at the time such interviews are sought or when a victim has an intellectual disability; 2. all criminal offense violations cited in section 914.16 that apply when a victim is under 16 years of age at the time such interviews are sought;1 3. all criminal offense violations cited in section 914.16 that apply when a victim has an intellectual disability as defined in section 393.063, Florida Statutes.2 “Interview” for the purposes of this order means any procedure in which the victim is required to provide a detailed account or demonstration of the nature and circumstances of the abuse, sexual abuse, or neglect, but does not include a history obtained for the purposes of medical or psychological diagnosis or treatment, nor does it include an initial contact with the victim by law enforcement or the Florida Department of Children and Families to assess the validity of the complaint or need to take protective measures on behalf of the victim. • No victim of abuse, sexual abuse, or neglect who falls within the age or intellectual disability limits of this order shall be required to submit to more than three interviews in the course of investigation and prosecution of an episode of abuse, sexual abuse, or neglect except upon order of court as provided below. 1 At the time this order was executed by the undersigned Chief Judge, section 914.16 applied to violations of sections 794.011, 800.04, 827.03, or 847.0135(5), Florida Statutes, when a victim is under 16 years old. 2 At the time this order was executed by the undersigned Chief Judge, section 914.16 applied to violations of sections 794.011, 800.02, 800.03, or 825.102, Florida Statutes, when a victim has an intellectual disability. 2. • Interested parties or agencies shall make every effort to gain all necessary information during the same interview. 4. • Interviews shall be conducted in a setting and manner intended to minimize the traumatic effects of the interview of the victim. 5. • When more than one party or agency participates in a single interview, the interview will be conducted by a single person who shall address the concerns of all parties during the interview. 6. • Additional interviews shall be allowed only by order of court upon motion for good cause shown. • Additional interviews shall be limited in scope to assure minimal impact on the victim.

Source of truth

LIMITS ON INTERVIEWS OF CHILD ABUSE AND SEXUAL ABUSE VICTIMS WHO ARE UNDER AGE 16 OR VICTIMS WHO HAVE AN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY This order is issued pursuant to section 914.16, Florida Statutes, which requires the Chief Judge to order reasonable limits on the number of interviews that young or intellectually disabled victims of abuse, sexual abuse, or neglect must submit to for law enforcement or discovery purposes.

Official source: 1st Circuit — official site
Source health: Healthy · checked October 24, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: September 9, 2026benchpath-reverify-2026-09-08 (custody hash match) | prior: benchpath-live-harvest-2026-07-24

Reviewer note: Document sha256: 84cf5b6565beb822c8e52eca07736609ed43b78309e1285482b3f98ea6886499 (97465 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]

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