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3 verbatim mandatory provisions from AO 2025-50 Appointment of the Honorable R. Todd Harris as Security Judge.
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. • TODD HARRIS AS SECURITY JUDGE WHEREAS, Florida Rule of General Practice and Judicial Administration 2.215(b)(7) provides that the Chief Judge “shall regulate the use of all court facilities…” and WHEREAS, security of the court facilities is integral to the efficient operation of judicial proceedings and other court business, and there is a need to provide consistent and adequate security measures for judges, staff, and the public, THEREFORE, pursuant to the authority vested in the Chief Judge by article V, section 2(d) of the Florida Constitution, section 43.26, Florida Statutes, and Florida Rule of General Practice and Judicial Administration 2.215(b), it is ORDERED as follows: 1. • As such, Judge Harris shall serve as Chair of the Court Emergency Management Team (CEMT) for Escambia County and the Court Emergency Management Group (CEMG) for the First Judicial Circuit. 3. • Subject to the oversight of the Chief Judge, Judge Harris shall be the initial judicial point of contact for security issues related to the court facilities in Escambia County and for matters which have circuit-wide implications.
TODD HARRIS AS SECURITY JUDGE WHEREAS, Florida Rule of General Practice and Judicial Administration 2.215(b)(7) provides that the Chief Judge “shall regulate the use of all court facilities…” and WHEREAS, security of the court facilities is integral to the efficient operation of judicial proceedings and other court business, and there is a need to provide consistent and adequate security measures for judges, staff, and the public, THEREFORE, pursuant to the authority vested in the Chief Judge by article V, section 2(d) of the Florida Constitution, section 43.26, Florida Statutes, and Florida Rule of General Practice and Judicial Administration 2.215(b), it is ORDERED as follows: 1.
Reviewer note: Document sha256: 0f0df692b94bc8dd09040bb5394bb94920a2a8d1f01db2e5869c5feec3839121 (127616 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.
A DV injunction petition is reviewed promptly; the court may issue a temporary injunction ex parte, and when it does, a full evidentiary hearing is generally set within 15 days. There is no filing fee.
Judge Lee requires a detailed emergency motion stating the issues, why an emergency hearing is necessary, and the presentation time needed — the FSC-template standard now appearing across 2026 division procedures.
Judge Thomas: an emergency motion not properly filed with the clerk will not be treated as an emergency — the clerk channel is the only emergency channel.