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7 verbatim mandatory provisions from AO 2018-002.
Third Judicial Circuit (Columbia, Dixie, Hamilton, Lafayette, Madison, Suwannee, Taylor). 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 2026-07-25; whitespace normalised only. No OCR. Only sentences carrying mandatory language are reproduced — the full order is in custody and is the controlling text. • Anyone authorized to investigate or pursue a complaint of sexual harassment or sexual misconduct 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. • Time for Filing Complaints In order to ensure that Florida Supreme Court complaint procedures can he 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. 4. • Resolution The chief justice, or pursuant to rule 2.205(a)(2)(D), Florida Rules of Judicial 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 ajustice's or judge's fitness for office, the chief justice, chief justice's designee, or the chief judge of the court in which the subject judge serves shall 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 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. • 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.
Anyone authorized to investigate or pursue a complaint of sexual harassment or sexual misconduct hereunder must always maintain an open-door policy that fosters the free expression of any complaint.
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25 verbatim mandatory provisions from AO 2022-004.
10 verbatim mandatory provisions from AO 2014-025.
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.