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34 verbatim mandatory provisions from 18-22-s-amd.
Eighteenth Judicial Circuit. Check the order's own effective and rescission dates before relying on it. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
• CRIMINAL BAIL SCHEDULE FOR SEMINOLE COUNTY Bail is an essential part of the criminal justice system, and a bail schedule is hereby promulgated so that law enforcement officers and booking officers can set bonds on arrests prior to first appearance. • Under the provisions of Florida Statute 903.02(4), a separate and specific bail amount must be set for each offense charged. • Bail will have a condition in every case that the defendant will have no direct or indirect contact with the alleged victim, if there is one in the case; and that the defendant shall remain from criminal activity of any kind. • NOTE TO INITIAL APPEARANCE JUDGES: “Unless charged with a capital offense or an offense punishable by life imprisonment and the proof of guilt is evident or the presumption is great, every person charged with a crime shall be entitled to pretrial release on reasonable conditions … If no conditions of release can reasonably protect the community from risk of physical harm to persons, assure the presence of the accused at trial, or assure the integrity of the judicial process, the accused may be detained.” Fla. • The Jessica Lunsford Act requires a judge to make a finding that a probationer or an offender on community control who is arrested for violating his/her probation or community control is not a “danger to public” prior to his/her release with or without bail where the probationer or offender in community control is: a. • A probationer who is subject to the provisions of the “Jessica Lunsford Act” shall not be released on bail unless there is a judicial finding that he or she is not a danger to the public. • If there is no such finding on the face of the warrant, the offender shall be held without bail, even if the warrant provides a specific bail amount. 3. • If the judge who issued the warrant expressly states that the offender is not a danger to the public, bail shall be set in the amount provided for in the warrant. 4. • If the First Appearance Judge does not hold this hearing, the court shall set the case for a status hearing in the assigned criminal division within 72 hours of the First Appearance hearing. • WARRANTS Bond for persons arrested on a violation of felony probation shall be set as provided for in the warrant itself, if and only if, the warrant provides that the probationer does not meet the qualifications of a “danger to public” hearing as defined in Florida Statute 948.06(4) (as amended by the “Jessica Lunsford Act”); otherwise, such person shall be held without bond pending the initial appearance before a judge. • Bond for persons arrested on a violation of misdemeanor probation warrant, a failure to appear warrant, or an arrest warrant shall be set as provided for in the warrant itself. • If the warrant is silent as to a bond amount, the bond shall be set as otherwise provided in this Administrative Order. • The Seminole County Sheriff’s Office Pretrial Release Division shall recommend the appropriate level of PTR supervision, as defined below: a. • The Seminole County Sheriff’s Office shall notify the Office of the State Attorney of any violations of PTR release conditions which did not result in the defendant’s arrest. • Stat. 907.041, bond shall be set as follows, unless the particular circumstances in the case necessitate a higher bond be set to ensure the defendant’s presence at all court hearings or for the protection of the public: • As to all individuals arrested for the offense of DUI, any release must also comply with the criteria set forth in Fla. • If the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office Pretrial Release Division finds that a detainee should properly be released on PTR, it shall follow the above procedures in making a recommendation as to the appropriate level of supervision and shall have the case set on the next first appearance docket. • The defendant shall refrain from any contact of any type with the victim(s), except through pretrial discovery pursuant to Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure. • The defendant shall comply with all other conditions of pretrial release. 2. • Order of No Contact Any person who is arrested in Seminole County for an offense of domestic violence, repeat violence, sexual violence or dating violence shall be furnished an Order of No Contact (Attachment 1) stating the conditions of pretrial release. • Persons arrested for any of the above noted offenses shall not be released until they have been instructed on the special conditions set forth in the Order of No Contact and have signed a court approved written notice acknowledging instruction on the special conditions of pretrial release. 3. • Persons Arrested for Sexual Offenses or Child Abuse Any person who is arrested for a sexual offense or for child abuse shall, as an additional condition of release, be prohibited from having direct or indirect contact with victim(s), victim(s)’ family, or residence(s) of the victim(s). • Persons arrested who have committed a sexual offense or child abuse shall not be released until they have been instructed of these special conditions by the pretrial release officer and have signed a written notice approved by the court. 4. • Any person who is arrested in Seminole County and who is on probation with supervision by the Department of Corrections, Probation and Parole Services, shall, as an additional condition of release, report to their Probation Officer with the Department of Corrections, Probation and Parole services before 4:00 p.m. on the first business day following release. • Persons on Probation – Seminole County Probation Department Any person who is arrested in Seminole County and who is on probation with supervision by the Seminole County Probation Department, shall, as an additional condition of release, report to Seminole County Probation Department, Sanford, Florida, before 4:00 p.m. on the first business day following release. • EFFECT OF FILING NOTICE OF NO INFORMATION OR NOLLE PROSEQUI If a person arrested for any offense(s) occurring within Seminole County is admitted to bail and the State Attorney files a notice of No Information or Nolle Prosequi with respect to all charges arising out of a single arrest, the Sheriff shall without further order of the Court, release the person from custody as to the charges named. • As to the named charges and person, all bail undertaking, not defaulted, shall be canceled, all sureties shall be exonerated, and all release on recognizance obligations shall be discharged without further order of the Court. • A bench warrant or capias which may be outstanding and is yet unserved upon a named individual for a specified charge shall also be canceled upon the filing of a No Information or Nolle Prosequi without further order of the Court. • COMPLIANCE WITH THIS ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER Upon receipt of the person arrested the booking officer shall review the arrest form to ensure that the arresting officer has properly set the initial bond according to this administrative order. • The booking officer is authorized to make changes to the bond amount reflected on the arrest form to properly comply with this order but in considering changes the booking officer shall consider any information in the arrest form that the arresting officer believed called for a higher bond and shall defer to that judgment. • However, any bond set shall not exceed the amount of bail set forth in the bond schedule. • Circuit and County Court Judges (Seminole County) Clerk of the Court (Seminole County) Court Administration (Seminole and Brevard Counties) State Attorney (Seminole County) Public Defender (Seminole County) Sheriff (Seminole County) Bar Association (Seminole County) Law Library (Seminole County) Seminole County Jail Administrator Seminole County Pretrial Release Officer Seminole County Police Departments ATTACHMENT 1 ORDER OF NO CONTACT IN CASES OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, REPEAT VIOLENCE, SEXUAL VIOLENCE, AND DATING VIOLENCE Pursuant to Florida Statute 903.047, all persons arrested for domestic violence, repeat violence, sexual violence, or dating violence shall as conditions of pretrial release abide by the following conditions: • (d) Refrain from being within 500 feet of the victim’s or other named person’s residence even if the victim or other named person shared the residence with the arrestee at the time of arrest. • (e) Refrain from being within 500 feet of the victim’s or other named person’s vehicle, place of employment, or other specified location frequented regularly by such person.
CRIMINAL BAIL SCHEDULE FOR SEMINOLE COUNTY Bail is an essential part of the criminal justice system, and a bail schedule is hereby promulgated so that law enforcement officers and booking officers can set bonds on arrests prior to first appearance.
Reviewer note: Document sha256: 0af8dab38bd7b1c802e0be23d5051357b72096c65b2e401a898f0bb8e4dbf779 (229268 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.