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Eighth Judicial Circuit Administrative Order 5.11 (Petitions for Involuntary Screening for Sexually Transmissible Diseases): 26 operative paragraphs verbatim from the order as the circuit publishes it.
Eighth Judicial Circuit — all counties of the circuit. Administrative orders are amended and rescinded by later orders; the circuit's own index controls (the index lists it as a current instrument on 2026-09-14). Procedural information only; not legal advice.
• The affidavit shall clearly explain why immediate action is necessary to protect the exposed person, and the risks involved in delay and in unnecessary treatment should treatment be initiated without knowing whether exposure to sexually transmitted disease has occurred. • The affidavit shall also clearly state the risks involved to the person from whom screening is being sought if screening is ordered. • 2. The petitioner shall, contemporaneously with the filing of the petition, contact the assigned judge’s office by telephone or in person, to alert the court that a petition has been filed. • In addition, the petitioner shall e-mail (or, if pro se and unable to email, hand deliver) the judge’s assistant a copy of the petition and affidavit, as well as two proposed orders, in Word format if delivered electronically, one of which denies the petition and one of which grants the petition. • 3. The petition shall be filed by the Clerk of Court as an “MH” case, and in Alachua County the case shall be assigned to Division “Q”. • Upon filing, the Clerk of Court shall immediately send an e-mail to the emergency motion e-mail group established by the Court. • The e- mail shall contain an appropriate subject line, and the petition, affidavit, and proposed orders shall be attached. • The assigned judge shall immediately review said petition and affidavit and shall enter an appropriate order. • If the assigned judge is not available, the judicial assistant shall take appropriate steps to locate a judge who is available for immediate review. • If the petition is received “after hours” the matter shall be referred to the duty judge in the same manner as a petition for injunction against domestic violence. • EFFECTIVE DATE This administrative order is effective immediately.
The affidavit shall clearly explain why immediate action is necessary to protect the exposed person, and the risks involved in delay and in unnecessary treatment should treatment be initiated without knowing whether exposure to sexually transmitted disease has occurred.
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-14 from BenchPath's custody copy (file 2093afc6405c.pdf; 392,659 bytes, 2 page(s), native text layer): the index lists it as a current instrument on 2026-09-14 (https://circuit8.org/eighth-judicial-circuit-court/administrative-orders/); the operative paragraphs after the ORDERED marker are quoted whole, whitespace normalised only; signature block, page markers and stamps dropped. Effective date from the order's own date line where present, else the index date. [text debris fixed 2026-09-21: U+FFFE line-break hyphen artifacts restored to hyphens; benchpath-tx-corpus0920-p4-2026-09-21] [Rebuilt 2026-09-27: the published text had been cut at line and page breaks (26 fragments, many beginning or ending mid-sentence); it now publishes the 11 whole sentences those fragments belong to, verbatim from the rule's own source (custody (sha256-matched, 1 document)), with printed page markers and running headers removed.]
9 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1997-10.
6 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1997-13.