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8 verbatim mandatory provisions from S-2018-016.
Thirteenth 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. • If any person has difficulty writing out the complaint and the person requests assistance in reducing the complaint to writing, or if the person prefers to submit the complaint orally, the chief judge or designee must designate a person who will not be involved in the investigation or adjudication of the complaint to aid the complainant in reducing the complaint to writing. • Time for Filing Complaints In order to ensure that the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit complaint procedures can be utilized without risk of precluding the filing of a charge of discrimination with state or federal entities, an employee or applicant should report an incident of sexual harassment within 90 days of the date of occurrence. • Any complaint of sexual misconduct should also be reported within 90 days of the date of occurrence. 4. • The chief judge or the chief judge's designee will interview the complainant within 5 days of the submission of the complaint to ascertain relevant facts and circumstances. • If any investigating officers have been appointed, they will submit a written report to the chief judge within 30 days of the submission of the complaint for formal investigation. 5. • If the complaint and investigation reasonably indicate that the subject judge engaged in activity that constitutes sexual harassment, constitutes sexual misconduct, or otherwise raises a substantial question as to the judge's fitness for office, the chief judge must refer the complaint and all written documentation pertaining to the complaint to the Judicial Qualifications Commission. • Documentation and Confidentiality All information pertaining to a complaint of sexual harassment must be documented and maintained by the chief judge or the chief judge ' s designee. • If a complaint against a judge has been referred to the Judicial Qualifications Commission, no further action by a chief judge is required.
If any person has difficulty writing out the complaint and the person requests assistance in reducing the complaint to writing, or if the person prefers to submit the complaint orally, the chief judge or designee must designate a person who will not be involved in the investigation or adjudication of the complaint to aid the complainant in reducing the complaint to writing.
Reviewer note: Document sha256: fbdbd95cd3ecd2a98dbbdc4d450d5aaf43fdd97ceb5056aba358b504357ed8bf (2580395 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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