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The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XLVII
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE AND CORRECTIONS
Chapter 985
JUVENILE JUSTICE; INTERSTATE COMPACT ON JUVENILES
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985.26 Length of detention.
(1) A child may not be placed into or held in detention care for longer than 24 hours unless the court orders such detention care, and the order includes specific instructions that direct the release of the child from such detention care, in accordance with s. 985.255. The order shall be a final order, reviewable by appeal under s. 985.534 and the Florida Rules of Appellate Procedure. Appeals of such orders shall take precedence over other appeals and other pending matters.
(2)(a)1. A court may order a child to be placed on supervised release detention care for any time period until an adjudicatory hearing is completed. However, if a child has served 60 days on supervised release detention care, the court must conduct a hearing within 15 days after the 60th day, to determine the need for continued supervised release detention care. At the hearing, and upon good cause being shown that the nature of the charge requires additional time for the prosecution or defense of the case or that the totality of the circumstances, including the preservation of public safety, warrants an extension, the court may order the child to remain on supervised release detention care until the adjudicatory hearing is completed.
2. Except as provided in paragraph (b) or paragraph (c), a child may not be held in secure detention care under a special detention order for more than 21 days unless an adjudicatory hearing for the case has been commenced in good faith by the court.
3. This section does not prohibit a court from transitioning a child to and from secure detention care and supervised release detention care, including electronic monitoring, when the court finds such a placement necessary, or no longer necessary, to preserve public safety or to ensure the child’s safety, appearance in court, or compliance with a court order. Such transition may be initiated upon the court’s own motion, or upon motion of the child or of the state, and after considering any information provided by the department regarding the child’s adjustment to detention supervision. Each period of secure detention care or supervised release detention care counts toward the time limitations in this subsection whether served consecutively or nonconsecutively.
(b) The court may order the child to be held in secure detention beyond 21 days under the following circumstances:
1. Upon good cause being shown that the nature of the charge requires additional time for the prosecution or defense of the case or that the totality of the circumstances, including the preservation of public safety, warrants an extension, the court may extend the length of secure detention care for up to an additional 21 days if the child is charged with an offense which, if committed by an adult, would be a capital felony, a life felony, a felony of the first degree or the second degree, a felony of the third degree involving violence against any individual, or any other offense involving the possession or use of a firearm. Except as otherwise provided in subparagraph 2., the court may continue to extend the period of secure detention care in increments of up to 21 days each by conducting a hearing before the expiration of the current period to determine the need for continued secure detention of the child. At the hearing, the court must make the required findings in writing to extend the period of secure detention. If the court extends the time period for secure detention care, it shall ensure an adjudicatory hearing for the case commences as soon as is reasonably possible considering the totality of the circumstances. The court shall prioritize the efficient disposition of cases in which the child has served 60 or more days in secure detention care.
2. When the child is being held in secure detention under s. 985.255(1)(g), and subject to s. 985.255(1)(h).
(c) A prolific juvenile offender under s. 985.255(1)(f) shall be placed on supervised release detention care with electronic monitoring or in secure detention care under a special detention order until disposition. If secure detention care is ordered by the court, it must be authorized under this part and may not exceed:
1. Twenty-one days unless an adjudicatory hearing for the case has been commenced in good faith by the court or the period is extended by the court pursuant to paragraph (b); or
2. Fifteen days after the entry of an order of adjudication.

As used in this paragraph, the term “disposition” means a declination to file under s. 985.15(1)(h), the entry of nolle prosequi for the charges, the filing of an indictment under s. 985.56 or an information under s. 985.557, a dismissal of the case, or an order of final disposition by the court.

(d) A prolific juvenile offender under s. 985.255(1)(f) who is taken into custody for a violation of the conditions of his or her supervised release detention must be held in secure detention until a detention hearing is held.
(3) Except as provided in subsection (2), a child may not be held in detention care for more than 15 days after the entry of an order of adjudication.
(4) The time limits in subparagraph (2)(a)2. and subsection (3) do not include periods of delay resulting from a continuance granted by the court for cause on motion of the child or his or her counsel or of the state. Upon the issuance of an order granting a continuance for cause on a motion by either the child, the child’s counsel, or the state, the court shall conduct a hearing at the end of each 72-hour period, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays, to determine the need for continued secure detention of the child and the need for further continuance of proceedings for the child or the state.
(5) A child who was not in secure detention at the time of the adjudicatory hearing, but for whom residential commitment is anticipated or recommended, may be placed under a special detention order for a period not to exceed 72 hours, excluding weekends and legal holidays, for the purpose of conducting a comprehensive evaluation as provided in s. 985.185. Motions for the issuance of such special detention order may be made subsequent to a finding of delinquency. Upon said motion, the court shall conduct a hearing to determine the appropriateness of such special detention order and shall order the least restrictive level of detention necessary to complete the comprehensive evaluation process that is consistent with public safety. Such special detention order may be extended for an additional 72 hours upon further order of the court.
(6) If a child is detained and a petition for delinquency is filed, the child shall be arraigned in accordance with the Florida Rules of Juvenile Procedure within 48 hours after the filing of the petition for delinquency.
(7) Any electronic monitoring ordered by a court as a condition of supervised release detention care under this section may be supervised by the department, a law enforcement agency, or the department and a law enforcement agency working in partnership. However, nothing in this subsection requires a law enforcement agency to supervise a child placed on electronic monitoring.
History.s. 5, ch. 90-208; s. 31, ch. 94-209; s. 1343, ch. 95-147; s. 5, ch. 96-398; s. 23, ch. 97-238; s. 13, ch. 98-207; s. 9, ch. 2000-134; s. 24, ch. 2000-135; s. 4, ch. 2005-263; s. 35, ch. 2006-120; s. 18, ch. 2014-162; s. 4, ch. 2017-164; ss. 10, 11, ch. 2018-86; s. 151, ch. 2019-167; s. 172, ch. 2020-2; s. 2, ch. 2022-181; s. 135, ch. 2023-8; s. 7, ch. 2023-87; s. 11, ch. 2024-130; s. 14, ch. 2024-133.
Note.Subsection (1) former s. 39.044(5)(a); s. 985.215(5)(a). Subsection (2) former s. 39.044(5)(b); s. 985.215(5)(c), (g). Subsection (3) former s. 39.044(5)(c); s. 985.215(5)(d). Subsection (4) former s. 39.044(5)(d); s. 985.215(5)(f). Subsection (5) former s. 985.215(5)(e). Subsection (6) former s. 39.044(7); s. 985.215(7).

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KQS v. State, 975 So. 2d 536 (Fla. 1st DCA 2008).

Cited 3 times | Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal | 2008 WL 244938

...at 94. The issue was whether the trial court erred by imposing consecutive fifteen-day sentences for each violation of the same behavior order. Id. The court analogized the stacking of sentences for contempt with the stacking of periods of detention in section 985.26(2), and with a prohibition on using multiple instances of violation of probation as a basis for departure, and held that section 985.037 prohibited the stacking of periods of secure detention for juveniles found guilty of contempt....
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E.D. v. State, 966 So. 2d 994 (Fla. 5th DCA 2007).

Cited 2 times | Published | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal | 2007 Fla. App. LEXIS 15673

PALMER, C.J. E.D., a juvenile, petitions this court seeking a writ of habeas corpus based upon the claim that he has been held in secured detention for more than 21 days in violation of section 985.26(2) of the Florida Statutes (2006)....
...inued detention, we deny E.D’s petition. On July 25, 2007, E.D. was detained on charges of burglary of a dwelling, petit theft, and criminal mischief. A trial was set for August 14, 2007, a date within the 21 days for secured detention provided by section 985.26(2) of the Florida Statutes....
...On August 14, 2007, the State orally requested a continuance because it was not prepared to proceed to trial. The trial court granted that motion. E.D. then filed a Motion to Release the Child from Detention, arguing that good cause for the continuance had not been shown as required by section 985.26(4)....
...acts were indeed the basis of the continuance. With these additional facts, the reasons given by the State for the continuance constitute good cause sufficient to allow E.D.’s continued detention. PETITION DENIED. PLEUS and GRIFFIN, JJ., concur. . Section 985.26(2) of the Florida Statutes (2006) provides: 985.26 Length of detention.— [[Image here]] (2) A child may not be held in secure, nonsecure, or home detention care under a special detention order for more than 21 days unless an adjudicatory hearing for the case has been commenced in good faith by the court. . Section 985.26(4) of the Florida Statutes (2006) provides: 985.26 Length of detention.— ⅜ ⅜ * (4) The time limits in subsection (2) and (3) do not included periods of delay resulting from a continuance granted by the court for cause on motion of the child or his or her counsel or of the state.
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T.K. v. State, 125 So. 3d 970 (Fla. 4th DCA 2013).

Cited 2 times | Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 2013 WL 2493764, 2013 Fla. App. LEXIS 9287

PER CURIAM. A juvenile petitioned this court for a writ of habeas corpus seeking release from secure detention prior to an adjudicatory *971 hearing. See § 985.26(2), Fla....
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M.A.M. v. Vurro, 2 So. 3d 388 (Fla. 2d DCA 2009).

Cited 2 times | Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal | 2009 WL 32416

...The child may continue to be held in detention care if the court makes a specific, written finding that detention care is necessary to protect the victim from injury. However, the child may not be held in detention care beyond the time limits set forth in this section or s. 985.26. Id. (emphasis added). Section 985.26(2) provides that "[a] child may not be held in secure, nonsecure, or home detention care under a special detention order for more than 21 days unless an adjudicatory hearing for the case has been commenced in good faith by the court." We conclude that sections 985.255(2) and 985.26(2) clearly prohibit the trial court from ordering that a child charged with domestic violence be held in secure detention for more than twenty-one days in total....
...er grounds, 684 So.2d 814 (Fla.1996). However, we also conclude that the twenty-one-day maximum does not include the initial twenty-four hours under which the child may be placed in custody at the JPO's discretion prior to the detention hearing. See § 985.26(2) ("A child may not be held in ......
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B.R. v. State, 145 So. 3d 196 (Fla. 2d DCA 2014).

Cited 2 times | Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal | 2014 WL 4055636, 2014 Fla. App. LEXIS 12554

...was not in secure detention at the time of this adjudicatory hearing. On January 22, 2014, the court heard argument on the permissible length of detention following an adjudicatory hearing. B.R. maintained that she could only be held for seventy-two hours with a possible seventy-two-hour extension under section 985.26(5), Florida Statutes (2013). The State argued that under the plain language of section 985.26(3), B.R....
...The representative explained that “[B.R.] told us the last time we were in court in August, that she promised to comply with your orders and she didn’t ... she just ran to Lakeland.” The court found that B.R. presented a substantial risk of not appearing at her disposition hearing and that under section 985.26(3), she could be held in secure detention for fifteen days after her adjudicatory hearing. B.R. filed an emergency petition for writ of habeas corpus on January 27, 2014, alleging that pursuant to section 985.26(5), her continued detention was illegal because she was not in secure detention at the time of the adjudicatory hearing. The State responded that under the plain lan *198 guage of section 985.26(3), B.R....
...tial risk of not appearing at a subsequent hearing.” § 985.24(l)(a). Based on that finding, the relevant period at issue in the instant case is the time between B.R.’s adjudicatory hearing and her disposition. As such, the applicable statute is section 985.26(3), which provides in part that “a child may not be held in secure, nonsecure, or home detention care for more than [fifteen] days following the entry of an order of adjudication.” Accordingly, the trial court did not err in concluding that B.R. could be held in secure detention for fifteen days following her adjudication. Consequently, we reject B.R.’s contention that section 985.26(5) applies here solely because she was not in secure detention at the time of her adjudication....
...was not in secure detention at the time of the adjudicatory hearing,” (2) “residential commitment is anticipated or recommended” for the child, and (3) the detention is explicitly “for the purpose of conducting a comprehensive evaluation.” § 985.26(5)....
...ent was anticipated or recommended or that the purpose of her detention was to conduct a comprehensive evaluation. And the instant record contains no indication of either of these circumstances. Failing to meet all three of the criteria set forth in section 985.26(5) must therefore preclude its application over the more general provisions of section 985.26(3) in order to achieve a consistent result....
...For instance, under B.R.’s reading of the statute, if a juvenile with a risk assessment instrument (RAI) score of twelve points or higher is placed in secure detention but is subsequently released pending adjudication because an adjudicatory hearing did not take place within twenty-one days under section 985.26(2), then the juvenile could only be held in secure detention for seventy-two hours after the adjudicatory hearing under section 985.26(5), while a child with a simi *199 lar RAI but whose adjudicatory hearing did commence within the proper timeframe could be held up to fifteen days simply because there was no preadjudicatory gap in his or her detention. We decline to adopt a reading of the statute that would lead to such an inconsistent result. Accordingly, we clarify that when detention is already authorized based on a risk assessment of the child, section 985.26(5) does not act as a limit on the court’s authority to place the juvenile into secure detention simply because he or she was not in secure detention at the time of the adjudicatory hearing. Instead, when residential commitment is anticipated or recommended, section 985.26(5) merely authorizes the court to place juveniles for whom secure detention might not otherwise have been authorized into secure detention while necessary evaluations for the court’s ultimate disposition are conducted. But the court may order qualified juveniles into secure detention for up to fifteen days under section 985.26(8), even though the juvenile may not have actually been in secure detention at the time of the adjudicatory hearing....
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JD v. State, 954 So. 2d 93 (Fla. 5th DCA 2007).

Cited 2 times | Published | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal | 2007 WL 1158213

...renumbered as section 985.037(2). [3] The Florida Supreme Court, however, did indicate that in the case of multiple violations of probation, sentences could be bumped one cell or guideline range for each violation. [4] This statute is now renumbered section 985.26(2), and modified slightly.
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Hughes v. Judd, 108 F. Supp. 3d 1167 (M.D. Fla. 2015).

Cited 2 times | Published | District Court, M.D. Florida | 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 50254, 2015 WL 1737871

...ghteen days. (VIII 77:1-12, XVIII 192:22-193:5) A term of detention of more than twenty-one days requires a hearing before a Florida state judge, who is authorized to extend detention for “good cause” to a maximum of sixty-three days. Fla. Stat. § 985.26 (2); (XVII 25:11-26:10) A direct-file juvenile is housed at CCJ until adjudication or until eighteen, upon the occurrence of which Florida law requires a transfer to adult housing....
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T.L.H. v. State, 93 So. 3d 396 (Fla. 2d DCA 2012).

Cited 1 times | Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal | 2012 WL 2470130, 2012 Fla. App. LEXIS 10587

...The arresting officer filed a complaint alleging this new delinquent act was a violation of T.L.H.’s probation. The court placed T.L.H. in secure detention on December 13, 2010, but later changed his status to nonsecure detention. *398 He remained on detention status for the maximum time permitted by law. See § 985.26, Fla....
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J.S. v. State, 182 So. 3d 890 (Fla. 5th DCA 2016).

Cited 1 times | Published | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal | 2016 Fla. App. LEXIS 505, 2016 WL 115649

...J.S., a juvenile, petitions for a writ of habeas corpus, seeking his immediate release from custody. We grant the petition and order J.S.’s immediate release. A child may not be held in secure or non-secure detention for more than twenty-one days unless an adjudicatory hearing for the case has been commenced. See § 985.26(2), Fla....
...is entitled to be released. 1 HABEAS CORPUS GRANTED, IMMEDIATE RELEASE ORDERED. ORFINGER, EVANDER and COHEN, JJ., concur. . While the State correctly argues that the twenty-one day period can be extended upon a showing of good cause, no such showing was made in this case. § 985.26(2), Fla....
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S.B. v. Parkins, 10 So. 3d 207 (Fla. 1st DCA 2009).

Cited 1 times | Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal | 2009 Fla. App. LEXIS 3373, 2009 WL 1010902

...juveniles charged with delinquent acts "is entirely statutory in nature." W.C. v. Smith, 898 So.2d 1137, 1138 (Fla. 1st DCA 2005). Thus, courts must strictly comply with controlling statutory provisions. Id. Subject to exceptions not relevant here, section 985.26(2), Florida Statutes (2008), prohibits the detention of a juvenile for more than 21 days on the same offense: "A child may not be held in secure, nonsecure, or home detention care under a special detention order for more than 21 days u...
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C.L.B. v. State, 114 So. 3d 1020 (Fla. 5th DCA 2012).

Published | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal | 2012 WL 5476101, 2012 Fla. App. LEXIS 15072

PER CURIAM. ON CONFESSION OF ERROR As the State properly concedes, C.L.B. is being improperly detained in secure detention beyond the 21-day period authorized by section 985.26(2), Florida Statutes (2012); his adjudicatory hearing has been scheduled beyond the 21 days allowed....
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J.s., a Child Vs State of Florida (Fla. 5th DCA 2023).

Published | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal

...father in Orlando were he released. At the conclusion of the hearing, the court granted the State’s motion and ordered that Petitioner be securely detained for an additional 21 days. Petitioner then sought a writ of habeas corpus in this Court. Section 985.26(2)(b), Florida Statutes (2023), provides: Upon good cause being shown that the nature of the charge requires additional time for the prosecution or defense of the case or [that] the...
...of the circumstances. The court shall prioritize the efficient disposition of cases in which 3 the child has served 60 or more days in secure detention care. § 985.26(2)(b), Fla. Stat. (2023). Under section 985.26, “a finding of good cause must be predicated on a record containing competent evidence of the reasons for continuing the detention period.” E.D....
...Brown, 559 So. 2d 712 (Fla. 1st DCA 1990)). Here, the State failed to offer evidence that there is good cause to extend Petitioner’s secure detention care. To begin, the State’s focus on the nature of the charge in the abstract is misdirected. Section 985.26 allows for an extension where “the nature of the charge requires additional time for the prosecution or defense of the case.” § 985.26(2)(b) (emphasis added)....
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H.D. v. Shore, 134 So. 3d 1062 (Fla. 4th DCA 2013).

Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 2013 WL 4821050, 2013 Fla. App. LEXIS 14458

...It is undisputed that he does not score suffi- *1063 dent points on the risk assessment instrument for secure detention. At the initial detention hearing, the trial court ordered home detention for up to twenty-one days pending the adjudicatory hearing. See § 985.26(2), Fla....
...(“RAI”) and on the criteria of subsection (1). § 985.255(3)(a), Fla. Stat. (2012). Accepting the State’s argument, as the trial court did, would allow a court to convert the remainder of the twenty-one day pre-adjudication detention period of section 985.26(2) to secure detention whenever a juvenile is alleged to have violated a condition of home detention....
...Further, a first contempt offense could be punished by up to five days in secure detention only. § 985.037(2), Fla. Stat. (2012). We agree with K.T.E. that a court may initiate indirect contempt proceedings to punish a violation of a pre-adjudication home detention order. We disagree with K.T.E., however, that what is now section 985.265(1), Florida Statutes (2012), pro *1064 vides an independent basis for ordering secure detention as occurred here....
...Uliasz, 30 So.3d 502 (Fla. 2d DCA 2010), and C.H.M. v. Uliasz, 18 So.3d 536 (Fla. 2d DCA 2009), the Second District has indicated that a trial court can order secure detention by making written findings of “significantly changed circumstances.” Section 985.265(1), Florida Statutes (2012), provides: “If a child is detained under this part, the depaHment may transfer the child from nonsecure or home detention care to secure detention care only if significantly changed circumstances warrant such transfer.” (Emphasis supplied)....
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ED v. State, 966 So. 2d 994 (Fla. 5th DCA 2007).

Published | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal | 2007 WL 2890133

...Casey, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Respondent. PALMER, C.J. E.D., a juvenile, petitions this court seeking a writ of habeas corpus based upon the claim that he has been held in secured detention for more than 21 days in violation of section 985.26(2) of the Florida Statutes (2006)....
...ntinued detention, we deny E.D's petition. On July 25, 2007, E.D. was detained on charges of burglary of a dwelling, petit theft, and criminal mischief. A trial was set for August 14, 2007, a date within the 21 days for secured detention provided by section 985.26(2) of the Florida Statutes....
...On August 14, 2007, the State orally requested a continuance because it was not prepared to proceed to trial. The trial court granted that motion. E.D. then filed a Motion to Release the Child from Detention, arguing that good cause for the continuance had not been shown as required by section 985.26(4)....
...ere indeed the basis of the continuance. With these additional facts, the reasons given by the State for the continuance constitute good cause sufficient to allow E.D.'s continued detention. PETITION DENIED. PLEUS and GRIFFIN, JJ., concur. NOTES [1] Section 985.26(2) of the Florida Statutes (2006) provides: 985.26 Length of detention. — * * * (2) A child may not be held in secure, nonsecure, or home detention care under a special detention order for more than 21 days unless an adjudicatory hearing for the case has been commenced in good faith by the court. [2] Section 985.26(4) of the Florida Statutes (2006) provides: 985.26 Length of detention....
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Z.W. v. State, 175 So. 3d 813 (Fla. 5th DCA 2014).

Published | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal | 2014 WL 1094429, 2014 Fla. App. LEXIS 4173

PER curiam:. We deny the Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus. However, we remand this case to the trial court to conduct a healing pursuant to section 985.26(4), Florida Statutes (2013)....
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A.t., a Child v. State of Florida (Fla. 4th DCA 2022).

Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal

...A juvenile petitions for habeas corpus challenging his continued home detention beyond twenty-one days after having been found incompetent to proceed. He claims that the trial court has no authority to extend his detention until his competency is restored. The trial court relied on section 985.26(4)(a), Florida Statutes (2021), to extend his detention, finding him to be a danger to the community were he to be released. We agree that the statute provides authority for this juvenile’s further detention....
...shall conduct a hearing at the end of each 72-hour period, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays, to determine the need for continued detention of the child and the need for further continuance of proceedings for the child or the state. § 985.26(4)(a), Fla....
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A.j.m., a Minor Vs State of Florida (Fla. 5th DCA 2023).

Published | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal

...ered an amended order, this time 3 checking a box that recited the court had found competent evidence to show good cause for the continued detention, namely the “preservation of public safety.” Section 985.26(2)(b), Florida Statutes (2022), provides: Upon good cause being shown that the nature of the charge requires additional time for the prosecution or defense of the case or [that] the totality of the circumstances,...
...ences as soon as is reasonably possible considering the totality of the circumstances. The court shall prioritize the efficient disposition of cases in which the child has served 60 or more days in secure detention care. § 985.26(2)(b), Fla. Stat. (2022). Under section 985.26, “a finding of good cause must be predicated on a record containing competent evidence of the reasons for continuing the detention period.” E.D....
...2d at 995. Petitioner responds that even if the amended order could be supported by good cause, the trial court’s box-check does not constitute the written findings that the statute requires. We disagree. The statute requires the court “to make the required findings in writing.” § 985.26(2)(b). The only findings that the statute lists—and, therefore, the only findings to which the term “required findings” could refer—are that “good cause [has been] shown that the nature of the charge requires additional time fo...
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C.J.T. v. State, 139 So. 3d 983 (Fla. 4th DCA 2014).

Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 2014 WL 2589188, 2014 Fla. App. LEXIS 8852

...appeals from a final order of disposition. Because the disposition of forty-five days in secure detention was unauthorized, we reverse. Moreover, because this is “an issue capable of repetition and tending to evade review,” we write briefly to address why section 985.26(3), Florida Statutes (2012), is not a sentencing alternative....
...n *984 tion, with the fifteen-day periods to run consecutively. Defendant would then be placed in a level six moderate-risk commitment program for the fourth case. To support the forty-five-day secure detention disposition, the trial court relied on section 985.26(3). In part, section 985.26 provides: (2) A child may not be held in secure, nonsecure, or home detention care under a special detention order for more than 21 days unless an adjudicatory hearing for the case has been commenced in good faith by the court....
...ny of the second degree involving violence against any individual. (3) Except as provided in subsection (2), a child may not be held in secure, nonse-cure, or home detention care for more than 15 days following the entry of an order of adjudication. § 985.26(2)-(3), Fla. Stat. (2012). When read in conjunction with section 985.27(1)(b) (“Postcommitment detention while awaiting placement”), 1 it appears that section 985.26(3) applies when an order of adjudication has been entered but the trial court determines that continued secure detention is necessary for logistical reasons, such as keeping the child and public safe while awaiting space in a selected program. Section 985.26(3) does not, however, provide a disposition alternative....
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Z.J. v. State (Fla. 5th DCA 2017).

Published | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal

detained longer than the term authorized in section 985.26 of the Florida Statutes (2017), which reads
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M.T., A CHILD v. Dep't OF Juv. Just. & MAJOR DUVIEL ROSELLO, Superintendent of the Broward Juv. Det. Ctr. (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2023).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida

detention. We disagree and deny the petition. Section 985.26(2)(b), Florida Statutes (2022), provides trial
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K.Q.S. v. State, 975 So. 2d 536 (Fla. 1st DCA 2008).

Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal | 2008 Fla. App. LEXIS 985

...at 94 . The issue was whether the trial court erred by imposing consecutive fifteen-day sentences for each violation of the same behavior order. Id. The court analogized the stacking of sentences for contempt with the stacking of periods of detention in section 985.26(2), and with a prohibition on using multiple instances of violation of probation as a basis for departure, and held that section 985.037 prohibited the stacking of periods of secure detention for juveniles found guilty of contempt....
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D.P.O. v. State, 212 So. 3d 1064 (Fla. 5th DCA 2017).

Published | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal | 2017 Fla. App. LEXIS 2612

...D.P.O., a child, petitions this court for a writ of habeas corpus, arguing she is being illegally held in nonsecure detention based on the trial court’s February 2, 2017 order placing her on electronic monitoring until March 30, 2017. She also claims she was illegally ordered to have no contact with the victim. Section 985.26(3), Florida Statutes (2016), provides that a child may not be held in secure or nonsecure detention care for more than 15 days following the entry of an order of adjudication....
...Electronic monitoring is considered to be a form of nonsecure detention under section 985.03(18)(b), Florida Statutes (2017). Inasmuch as the order placing D.P.O. on electronic monitoring for more than 15 days following her adjudicatory hearing is unauthorized absent a delay pursuant to section 985.26(4), Florida Statutes, 1 we *1065 grant the writ and remand for entry of an order striking electronic monitoring. 2 PETITION GRANTED. BERGER, WALLIS and LAMBERT, concur. . Section 985.26(4) provides: The time limits in subsections (2) and (3) do not include periods of delay resulting from a continuance granted by the court for cause on motion of the child or his or her counsel or of the state....
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D.P.O. v. State (Fla. 5th DCA 2017).

Published | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal

...he is being illegally held in nonsecure detention based on the trial court’s February 2, 2017 order placing her on electronic monitoring until March 30, 2017. She also claims she was illegally ordered to have no contact with the victim. Section 985.26(3), Florida Statutes (2016), provides that a child may not be held in secure or nonsecure detention care for more than 15 days following the entry of an order of adjudication....
...Electronic monitoring is considered to be a form of nonsecure detention under section 985.03(18)(b), Florida Statutes (2017). Inasmuch as the order placing D.P.O. on electronic monitoring for more than 15 days following her adjudicatory hearing is unauthorized absent a delay pursuant to section 985.26(4), Florida Statutes,1 we grant the writ and remand for entry of an order striking electronic monitoring. 2 PETITION GRANTED. BERGER, WALLIS and LAMBERT, concur. 1 Section 985.26(4) provides: The time limits in subsections (2) and (3) do not include periods of delay resulting from a continuance granted by the court for cause on motion of the child or his or her counsel or of the state....
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M.D.E. v. State, 206 So. 3d 152 (Fla. 5th DCA 2016).

Published | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal | 2016 Fla. App. LEXIS 18227

PER CURIAM. Petitioner, M.D.E., a child, filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus alleging he is entitled to release pursuant to section 985.26(2), Florida Statutes (2016). Section 985.26(2) provides: A child may not be held in secure or nonsecure detention care under a special detention order for more than 21 days unless an adjudicatory hearing for the case has been commenced in good faith by the court, However, upon g...
...tion for an additional 9 days if the child is charged with an offense that would be, if committed by an adult, a capital felony, a life felony, a felony of the first degree, or a felony of the second degree involving violence against any individual. § 985.26(2), Fla....
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M.D.E. v. State (Fla. 5th DCA 2016).

Published | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal

...Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Marjorie Vincent-Tripp, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Respondent. PER CURIAM. Petitioner, M.D.E., a child, filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus alleging he is entitled to release pursuant to section 985.26(2), Florida Statutes (2016). Section 985.26(2) provides: A child may not be held in secure or nonsecure detention care under a special detention order for more than 21 days unless an adjudicatory hearing for the case has been commenced in good faith by the court....
...days if the child is charged with an offense that would be, if committed by an adult, a capital felony, a life felony, a felony of the first degree, or a felony of the second degree involving violence against any individual. § 985.26(2), Fla....
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Z.J. v. State, 224 So. 3d 308 (Fla. 5th DCA 2017).

Published | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal | 2017 WL 3317998, 2017 Fla. App. LEXIS 11386

...ive days later, the court ordered that the juvenile remain detained and set a “DISPOSITION/UFC” hearing for August 22, 2017. In seeking habeas corpus relief, Z.J.’s sole argument is that she is being detained longer than the term authorized in section 985.26 of the Florida Statutes (2017), which reads, in part: 985.26 Length of detention [[Image here]] (2) A child may not be held in secure or nonsecure detention care under a special detention order for more than 21 days unless an adjudicatory hearing for the case has been commenced in good faith by the court....
...rties, after the court’s finding that Z.J. was a flight risk. Z.J. asserts “even if it is found that the State requested a continuance, which was not formally applied for or heard,” then the trial court should hold the hearings contemplated in section 985.26(4). That subsection reads: 985.26 Length of detention [[Image here]] (4) The time limits in subsections (2) and (3) do not include periods of delay resulting from a continuance granted by the court for cause on motion of the child or his or her counsel or of the state....
...er continuance of proceedings for the child or the state. The trial court’s authority to place a juvenile, who is charged with or found to have committed delinquent acts, in secure detention is entirely statutory. Therefore, strict compliance with section 985.26 is necessary....
...remain detained, with no end date specified, and sets a hearing for August 22, 2017. Neither party has supplied a transcript, and the “Setting Hearing Order” does not explain why the court ordered ongoing detention. Thus, unless the trial court granted a continuance for cause, this was error. See § 985.26(2) (forbidding pre-adjudication detention longer than twenty-one days); § 985.26(3) (forbidding post-adjudication, predisposition detention longer than fifteen days); see also M.D.E....
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B.R. v. State (Fla. 2d DCA 2014).

Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal

...was not in secure detention at the time of this adjudicatory hearing. On January 22, 2014, the court heard argument on the permissible length of detention following an adjudicatory hearing. B.R. maintained that she could only be held for seventy-two hours with a possible seventy- two-hour extension under section 985.26(5), Florida Statutes (2013). The State argued that under the plain language of section 985.26(3), B.R....
...The representative explained that "[B.R.] told us the last time we were in court in August, that she promised to comply with your orders and she didn't . . . she just ran to Lakeland." The court found that B.R. presented a substantial risk of not appearing at her disposition hearing and that under section 985.26(3), she could be held in secure detention for fifteen days after her adjudicatory hearing. B.R. filed an emergency petition for writ of habeas corpus on January 27, 2014, alleging that pursuant to section 985.26(5), her continued detention was illegal because she was not in secure detention at the time of the adjudicatory hearing. The State responded that under the plain language of section 985.26(3), B.R....
...ntial risk of not appearing at a subsequent hearing." § 985.24(1)(a). Based on that finding, the relevant period at issue in the instant case is the time between B.R.'s adjudicatory hearing and her disposition. As such, the applicable statute is section 985.26(3), which provides in part that "a child may not be held in secure, nonsecure, or home detention care for more than [fifteen] days following the entry of an order of adjudication." Accordingly, the trial court did not err in concluding that B.R. could be held in secure detention for fifteen days following her adjudication. Consequently, we reject B.R.'s contention that section 985.26(5) applies here solely because she was not in secure detention at the time of her adjudication. That section provides that [a] child who was not in secure detention at the time of the adjudicatory hea...
.... . . was not in secure detention at the time of the adjudicatory hearing," (2) "residential commitment is anticipated or recommended" for the child, and (3) the detention is explicitly "for the purpose of conducting a comprehensive evaluation." § 985.26(5)....
...ed or recommended or that the purpose of her detention was to conduct a comprehensive evaluation. And the instant record contains no indication of either of these circumstances. Failing to meet all three of the criteria set forth in section 985.26(5) must therefore preclude its application over the more general provisions of section 985.26(3) in order to achieve a consistent result....
...For instance, under B.R.'s reading of the statute, if a juvenile with a risk assessment instrument (RAI) score of twelve points or higher is placed in secure detention but is subsequently released pending adjudication because an adjudicatory hearing did not take place within twenty-one days under section 985.26(2), then the juvenile could only be held in secure detention for seventy-two hours after the adjudicatory hearing under section 985.26(5), while a child with a similar RAI but whose adjudicatory hearing did commence within the proper timeframe could be held up to fifteen days simply because there was no preadjudicatory gap in his or her detention....
...We decline to adopt a reading of the statute that would lead to such an inconsistent result. -4- Accordingly, we clarify that when detention is already authorized based on a risk assessment of the child, section 985.26(5) does not act as a limit on the court's authority to place the juvenile into secure detention simply because he or she was not in secure detention at the time of the adjudicatory hearing. Instead, when residential commitment is anticipated or recommended, section 985.26(5) merely authorizes the court to place juveniles for whom secure detention might not otherwise have been authorized into secure detention while necessary evaluations for the court's ultimate disposition are conducted. But the court may order qualified juveniles into secure detention for up to fifteen days under section 985.26(3), even though the juvenile may not have actually been in secure detention at the time of the adjudicatory hearing.1 MORRIS and SLEET, JJ., Concur. 1 We also note that B.R....
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R.N. v. State, 30 So. 3d 725 (Fla. 4th DCA 2010).

Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 2010 Fla. App. LEXIS 4506

...His secure detention has continued since then because of the “good cause” demonstrated for continuances of his adjudicatory hearing. This court granted R.N.’s first petition and directed the trial court to immediately conduct the hearing required by Florida Statute section 985.26(4) to determine if there exists the “need for continued detention of the child.” We noted that the need for further continuance of the proceedings is a separate inquiry apart from the need for continued detention....
...Upon reviewing the applicable statute we maintain that once detained for thirty days, 1 the trial court shall hold a hearing at the end of each 72 hour period to “determine the need for continued detention of the child and the need for further continuance of proceedings for the child or the state.” See § 985.26(4), Fla....
...In this case, thirty days is the applicable time period because it involves an offense that would be, if committed by an adult, "a capital felony, a life felony, a felony of the first degree, or a felony of the second degree involving violence against any individual.” See § 985.26(2), Fla....
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RN v. State, 30 So. 3d 725 (Fla. 4th DCA 2010).

Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 2010 WL 1329914

...His secure detention has continued since then because of the "good cause" demonstrated for continuances of his adjudicatory hearing. This court granted R.N.'s first petition and directed the trial court to immediately conduct the hearing required by Florida Statute section 985.26(4) to determine if there exists the "need for continued detention of the child." We noted that the need for further continuance of the proceedings is a separate inquiry apart from the need for continued detention....
...Upon reviewing the applicable statute we maintain that once detained for thirty days, [1] the trial court shall hold a hearing at the end of each 72 hour period to "determine the need for continued detention of the child and the need for further continuance of proceedings for the child or the state." See § 985.26(4), Fla....
...NOTES [1] In this case, thirty days is the applicable time period because it involves an offense that would be, if committed by an adult, "a capital felony, a life felony, a felony of the first degree, or a felony of the second degree involving violence against any individual." See § 985.26(2), Fla....
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J.D. v. State, 954 So. 2d 93 (Fla. 5th DCA 2007).

Published | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal | 2007 Fla. App. LEXIS 5795

...Effective January 1, 2007, this statute was renumbered as section 985.037(2). . The Florida Supreme Court, however, did indicate that in the case of multiple violations of probation, sentences could be bumped one cell or guideline range for each violation. . This statute is now renumbered section 985.26(2), and modified slightly.

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