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16 verbatim mandatory provisions from 17-44-s.
Eighteenth 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. • The following procedures and criteria shall be followed when defendants are released from custody by the Court upon the condition that they submit to electronic monitoring under the EMPACT program or other monitoring program and more specifically, shall be followed when defendants are released from custody by the Court upon the condition that they submit to electronic monitoring under the EMPACT or DV EMPACT program approved by the Seminole County Sheriff: 1. • The residence must have an operational telephone line if the electronic monitor requires a telephone line. 2. • The defendant must be a resident of Seminole County, Florida, or have made arrangements to live in the contiguous counties of Lake, Orange, Brevard, Osceola, Polk or Volusia upon Court approval with verification that the electronic monitor program covers the defendant’s new residence. 3. • Defendants who have a serious medical condition that requires frequent care, or who are identified as psychotic, severely mentally retarded, currently suicidal, mentally incapable or unable to cope with the structure of electronic monitoring shall not be placed on an electronic monitor. • Any Defendant that the Sheriff or any Police Agency in Seminole County determines is not mentally capable to cope with the structure of electronic monitoring shall notify the court immediately. • The Defendant shall not be released until a further determination is made by the Court as to the Defendant’s release conditions. 4. • Defendants who have a condition of release to participate in the EMPACT or another electronic monitoring program shall be responsible for any damage or loss to equipment issued and shall pay a per diem cost to Seminole County. 5. • The Seminole County Sheriff’s Office shall be responsible for collection of any fees related to the EMPACT program. • Defendants who have been taken into custody for any offense for which no bail shall be set until the initial appearance proceeding enumerated in Seminole County Administrative Order Bail Schedule. • Any defendant who breaches a condition of release while on electronic monitoring in a domestic violence case shall be taken into custody by any law enforcement officer upon probable cause and held until first appearance as provided by F. • Any defendant who commits a violation of F.S. 843.23 by intentionally removing, destroying, altering, tampering with damaging, or circumventing the operation of an electronic monitoring device that must be worn or used by that person pursuant to a court order shall be taken into custody by any law enforcement officer and brought before the Court for first appearance. • In the event of a violation that occurs out of county, that results in an out of county arrest of the Defendant for a new-law violation, that the defendant’s bond shall be revoked automatically, and the defendant shall be held at no bond on the underlying case, until such time as he/she can be transported to Seminole County, and appear before a first appearance judge to determine if said violation is willful. • In the event of a suspected breach of any other condition of electronic monitoring, the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office shall notify the Court in writing so that the violation may be brought before the Court for review. • Defendants shall have been informed in their Court minutes/order placing them on EMPACT that violations include, but not be limited to: • The defendant must not have unauthorized contact with the victim. -- 3 of 4 -- 4 G. • All information provided to the Court, the Sheriff and any supervising agency, must be truthful.
The following procedures and criteria shall be followed when defendants are released from custody by the Court upon the condition that they submit to electronic monitoring under the EMPACT program or other monitoring program and more specifically, shall be followed when defendants are released from custody by the Court upon the condition that they submit to electronic monitoring under the EMPACT or DV EMPACT program approved by the Seminole County Sheriff: 1.
Reviewer note: Document sha256: 02c68dd94b906e5260d4c1d0652fd4b12b2abbaa04b45d12ac73dd4b65b7d3a1 (138206 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.
The 17th Circuit's circuit-wide AI disclosure/certification mandate (Jan 2026, twice amended) was VACATED in its entirety effective June 15, 2026 by Chief Judge Phillips's AO 2026-19-Gen, expressly citing the statewide framework (AOSC26-12; Rule 2.515(d)(2), SC2026-0673). Several division procedure pages still cite the vacated order.
Every circuit-civil case reviewed within 120 days of commencement and assigned a track (complex, streamlined, or general); case management orders required; firm continuance policy; sanctions for missed deadlines. Rescinds AO 21-09.
Circuit-civil hearing-availability standards: motion calendars ~2 weeks from request; 15-30 min special sets within 45-60 days; longer special sets scale.