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9 verbatim requirements from admin. order AO 2.25 - Sexual Harassment Policy And Procedures for Complaints Againist Trial Court Judges (Revised attachments 3/5/18) [Judicial].
20th Judicial Circuit. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Verbatim from https://www.ca.cjis20.org/pdf/ao/ao_2_25.pdf, harvested 2026-07-25; whitespace normalised only. • Anyone authorized to investigate or pursue a complaint of sexual harassment or sexual nlisconduct hereunder must always maintain an open-door policy that fosters the free expression of any complaint. • 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 justice, local administrator, or OSCA Chief of Human Resources, as appropriate, shall designate a person, who will not be involved in the investigation or adjudication of the complaint, to aid the person in reducing the complaint to writing, • In order to ensure that Florida Supreme Court complaint procedures can be utilized without risk of preclt1ding 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. • Administration, the other most senior justice if the chief justice is the subject of a complaint, shall determine the course of action for internal resolution of the complaint, and may appoint another person, other than the subject of the complaint, to recommend the course of action for internal resolution. • If the complaint and investigation reasonably indicate that the subject justice or judge engaged in activity that constitutes sexual harassment, constitutes sexual misconduct, or otherwise raises a substantial question as to a justice's or judge's fitness for office, the chief justice, chief justice's designee, or the chief judge ofthe court in which the subjectjudge serves shall refer the complaint and all written documentation pertaining to the complaint to the • All information pertaining to a complaint of sexual harassment must be documented and maintained by the chief justice, chief justice's designee, or the chief judge of the court in which the subject judge serves whichever officer took final action on the resolution of the complaint. • These procedures do not preclude the referral of a complaint against a justice or judge at any time by any person to the Judicial Qualifications Commission. • If a complaint has been referred to the Judicial Qualifications Commission, no further action by the chief justice or chief justice's designee is required. • These procedures do not preclude the filing of a charge of emplOyment discrimination with the Florida Commission on Human Relations or the United States Equal Employment
Anyone authorized to investigate or pursue a complaint of sexual harassment or sexual nlisconduct hereunder must always maintain an open-door policy that fosters the free expression of any complaint.
Reviewer note: Order PDF sha256: 1aa5c46bc0de3555facef66cb8a20da5856f3bbe5a48c22cd543460661be0a63. Extracted from the order's own text layer.
2 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1986-33A.
1 verbatim requirement from Fourth Circuit administrative order 2003-06.