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24 verbatim mandatory provisions from S-2001-031.
Thirteenth Judicial Circuit. Check the order's own effective and rescission dates before relying on it. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
• ALTERNATIVE TO INCARCERATION PROGRAMS WHEREAS members of the criminal justice community in the circuit recognize that the proper detention of certain persons is a matter of great public concern and community safety; and WHEREAS the Hillsborough County Jail System must operate within mandatory population guidelines set by law; and WHEREAS the courts of this circuit seek to comply with jail population guidelines without compromising the safety of the community; and WHEREAS a committee of judges and other members of the criminal justice community has reviewed jail release guidelines and alternatives to incarceration and recommended procedures herein described; and WHEREAS the court has the authority to extend limits of confinement for an inmate with the advice and consent of the sheriff, directly or through a designated officer; and WHEREAS the Office of the Sheriff of Hillsborough County, in its capacity as Executive Officer of the Courts of Hillsborough County, is hereby authorized pursuant to Florida Rules of Judicial Administration 2.050(b)(8) to grant and administer extended limits of confinement through Alternative to Incarceration Programs as described herein. • All persons sentenced to the Hillsborough County Jail System shall be remanded to the custody of the sheriff, who shall have authority to extend the limits of confinement for certain offenders who shall meet certain specific criteria as described in Attachment A of this order. • The court shall not, however, sentence an offender directly into any one of the programs identified in section 1 (A)-(C) of this order. • Individuals who are sentenced and awaiting placement into a non- secure treatment facility shall not be excluded from the selection eligibility criteria; however, before assignment to an alternative program the sentencing court must provide written approval. 3. • Offenders eligible for and assigned to the Work Release Program shall, as a condition of the program, be gainfully employed and shall reside at the Hillsborough County Work Release Center until such time as they have satisfied the requirements of the programs and the sentencing court. 4. • Offenders eligible for and assigned to such other programs as identified in Section 1 B C of this order shall reside in their proper residence and shall perform such community service work for the various county funded public agencies as the sheriff may determine appropriate. • Each offender shall perform no more than ten (10) hours, unpaid work per day for not less than two (2) days and not more than six (6) days per work week. 5. • Admission into any of the programs herein referenced shall be accomplished through a contractual arrangement between each offender and the sheriff. • Such contract shall describe the terms and conditions for continued participation in a program and shall stipulate that failure to comply with the aforesaid terms may result in termination from a program. • Such termination shall result in the offender being returned to the secure custody of the jail to complete the term of the offender's sentence. 6. • Upon proper determination that an offender has been found to have violated the terms of the contract or is otherwise a risk to the community, the sheriff shall have the authority to immediately return said offender to the secure custody of the jail without requirement to obtain warrants, pick-up orders or other instruments which may normally be issued by the court for such purposes. 7. • It shall be the responsibility of the sheriff to ensure proper review and credit of such time as may have been earned by an offender or to deduct such time as may be forfeited resulting from an offender's violation of the contractual obligations. • In no event shall any offender described herein be required to serve more than three hundred and sixty-four (364) days per sentence of the court in the custody of the sheriff. • This requirement shall in no way impinge on the court's ability to sentence an offender to consecutive terms of confinement. 9. • The sheriff shall be responsible to develop and establish work programs and scheduling for offenders eligible to participate in the programs. • Such scheduling shall be developed in conjunction with the needs of the various county-funded public agencies and shall have as a primary goal the benefit of the community at large for services performed by unpaid offender labor. 10. • The sheriff shall only be responsible for the cost of emergency medical treatment for any offender who sustains any injury during the course of the performance of the duties required by the program to which the offender is assigned. • Other routine or regular non-emergency medical and dental care shall be the responsibility of the offender. • This shall in no way restrict or prevent the sheriff from pursuing reimbursement for medical expenses as provided for by federal and state statutes. 11. • Nothing contained herein shall abrogate pre-trial release, reduction of bond, or other procedures established by Florida Law or Rule or considerations contained in Administrative Order S 1999-093. 12. • All Criminal Circuit and County Judges Mark Ober, State Attorney Julianne Holt, Public Defender Cal Henderson, Sheriff ATTACHMENT A Eligibility for Placement into Alternative to Incarceration Programs Participation in one of the several Alternative to Incarceration Programs for County sentenced offenders shall in part be based upon the following facts: a. • The existence of any of the following characteristics shall be considered to exclude eligibility for participation in the programs: a. • None of the foregoing shall be binding upon the sheriff as an absolute condition for inclusion or exclusion from the programs. • They each shall serve as a minimum guide to the Office of the Sheriff who, in the best interest of the community, shall have authority to grant or withdraw the eligibility for program participation based upon the particulars of the facts or considerations of each offender reviewed.
ALTERNATIVE TO INCARCERATION PROGRAMS WHEREAS members of the criminal justice community in the circuit recognize that the proper detention of certain persons is a matter of great public concern and community safety; and WHEREAS the Hillsborough County Jail System must operate within mandatory population guidelines set by law; and WHEREAS the courts of this circuit seek to comply with jail population guidelines without compromising the safety of the community; and WHEREAS a committee of judges and other members of the criminal justice community has reviewed jail release guidelines and alternatives to incarceration and recommended procedures herein described; and WHEREAS the court has the authority to extend limits of confinement for an inmate with the advice and consent of the sheriff, directly or through a designated officer; and WHEREAS the Office of the Sheriff of Hillsborough County,
Reviewer note: Document sha256: a0de48bfd1ac82f6110d09d61131c2fd43740cca6406a2fd8f1398f8dbfdce46 (29198 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]
4 verbatim requirements on hearings.
2 verbatim requirements on hearing time in LAUREN N. PEFFER's division.