The Remote-Appearance Matrix — and Never From a Moving Vehicle… — Palm Beach County, FL · BenchPath

The Remote-Appearance Matrix — and Never From a Moving Vehicle — Division JO

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Remote / Zoom Hearings15th Jud. Cir., Juvenile Division JO Divisional Instructions (updated 06/10/2026)

Summary

Judge Kroll publishes an enumerated list of who may appear remotely (youth from school via the School Liaison, parents from jail or treatment, DJJ liaisons, JPOs, case managers, CPIs, volunteer GALs, out-of-state parties) — everyone else moves for leave 3 days out, and no one appears from a moving vehicle.

Applies to

Florida > Fifteenth Judicial Circuit > Palm Beach County > Juvenile Division JO (Judge Kathleen J. Kroll)

Source of truth

"Youth may appear from school, with prior arrangements being made with School Liaison" / "The Court may also grant remote appearance for other extreme circumstances after the filing of a written Motion to Appear Remotely, no less than three (3) days prior to the hearing" / "Under no circumstances will a participant be permitted to appear remotely from a moving vehicle."

Official source: 15th Cir. — Division JO Instructions (Judge Kroll)
Source health: Healthy · checked October 24, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: September 9, 2026benchpath-reverify-2026-09-08 (live text containment) | prior: benchpath-cw-2026-08-04

Reviewer note: Verified against the live official source on 2026-07-05. 30-day recheck scheduled. | 2026-08-03: the source (rendered DOM (headless Chromium)) no longer contains this rule's quoted text; dropped to medium pending re-composition against the current version. | Superseded in practice by fl15-div-jo-instructions (composed 2026-08-03 from the current page after the July rotation). [MEDIUM CONFIRMED 2026-08-03 (paraphrase-class): source re-fetched live (sha256 7c0eeea3546bef34a7cdab3d3c1b168aa70f595ed0e4c3e376e70d55bbb6a91d); all 3 quoted source fragment(s) verified live. Text remains a summary — verbatim recomposition queued.] [RECOMPOSED VERBATIM 2026-08-04 (campaign wave, fully-anchored): 2 bullet(s) quoted whole from the live page, sha256 5bbc77b74a49b506cdba6ae2c8cb5e5e62cdf87787a144d419397796cc6414a2; the prior summary-class text is superseded.] Verbatim from the division's live instruction page (https://www.15thcircuit.com/division/jo/news), harvested 2026-08-04; each bullet is quoted whole from the page, whitespace normalised only. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]

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Change history

August 6, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division JO Instructions (Judge Kroll). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 5, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division JO Instructions (Judge Kroll). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 4, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division JO Instructions (Judge Kroll). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 2, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division JO Instructions (Judge Kroll). Review before republishing dependent rules.
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July 31, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division JO Instructions (Judge Kroll). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 30, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division JO Instructions (Judge Kroll). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 29, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division JO Instructions (Judge Kroll). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 28, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division JO Instructions (Judge Kroll). Review before republishing dependent rules.