Florida Statutes Chapter 985 — JUVENILE JUSTICE; INTERSTATE COMPACT ON JUVENILES

From the Legislature's 2026 edition, which includes changes effective through January 1, 2027. Later effective dates are retained in each section's source notes.

Title XLVII

• § 985.01 — Purposes and intent.
• § 985.02 — Legislative intent for the juvenile justice system.
• § 985.03 — Definitions.
• § 985.0301 — Jurisdiction.
• § 985.031 — Age limitation; exception.
• § 985.032 — Legal representation for delinquency cases.
• § 985.033 — Right to counsel.
• § 985.035 — Opening hearings.
• § 985.036 — Rights of victims; juvenile proceedings.
• § 985.037 — Punishment for contempt of court; alternative sanctions.
• § 985.039 — Cost of supervision; cost of care.
• § 985.04 — Oaths; records; confidential information.
• § 985.045 — Court records.
• § 985.046 — Statewide information-sharing system; interagency workgroup.
• § 985.047 — Information systems.
• § 985.101 — Taking a child into custody.
• § 985.11 — Fingerprinting and photographing.
• § 985.115 — Release or delivery from custody.
• § 985.12 — Prearrest delinquency citation programs.
• § 985.125 — Postarrest diversion programs.
• § 985.126 — Prearrest and postarrest diversion programs; data collection; denial of participation or expunged record.
• § 985.13 — Probable cause affidavits.
• § 985.135 — Juvenile assessment centers.
• § 985.14 — Intake and case management system.
• § 985.145 — Responsibilities of the department during intake; screenings and assessments.
• § 985.15 — Filing decisions.
• § 985.155 — Neighborhood restorative justice.
• § 985.16 — Community arbitration.
• § 985.17 — Prevention services.
• § 985.175 — The PACE Center for Girls.
• § 985.18 — Medical, psychiatric, psychological, substance abuse, and educational examination and treatment.
• § 985.185 — Evaluations for disposition.
• § 985.19 — Incompetency in juvenile delinquency cases.
• § 985.195 — Transfer to other treatment services.
• § 985.24 — Use of detention; prohibitions.
• § 985.245 — Risk assessment instrument.
• § 985.25 — Detention intake.
• § 985.255 — Detention criteria; detention hearing.
• § 985.26 — Length of detention.
• § 985.265 — Detention transfer and release; education; adult jails.
• § 985.27 — Postdisposition detention while awaiting residential commitment placement.
• § 985.275 — Detention of escapee or absconder on authority of the department.
• § 985.318 — Petition.
• § 985.319 — Process and service.
• § 985.325 — Threatening or dismissing an employee prohibited.
• § 985.331 — Court and witness fees.
• § 985.335 — No answer to petition required.
• § 985.345 — Delinquency pretrial intervention programs.
• § 985.35 — Adjudicatory hearings; withheld adjudications; orders of adjudication.
• § 985.43 — Predisposition reports; other evaluations.
• § 985.433 — Disposition hearings in delinquency cases.
• § 985.435 — Probation; community service.
• § 985.437 — Restitution.
• § 985.438 — Graduated response matrix.
• § 985.439 — Violation of probation.
• § 985.441 — Commitment.
• § 985.442 — Form of commitment; certified copy of charge attached.
• § 985.45 — Liability and remuneration for work.
• § 985.455 — Other dispositional issues.
• § 985.46 — Conditional release.
• § 985.461 — Transition to adulthood.
• § 985.465 — Maximum-risk residential facilities.
• § 985.475 — Juvenile sexual offenders.
• § 985.48 — Juvenile sexual offender commitment programs; sexual abuse intervention networks.
• § 985.481 — Sexual offenders adjudicated delinquent; notification upon release.
• § 985.4815 — Notification to Department of Law Enforcement of information on juvenile sexual offenders.
• § 985.494 — Commitment programs for juvenile felony offenders.
• § 985.511 — Costs of representation.
• § 985.512 — Powers with respect to certain children.
• § 985.513 — Powers of the court over parent or guardian at disposition.
• § 985.514 — Responsibility for cost of care; fees.
• § 985.534 — Appeal.
• § 985.535 — Additional grounds for appeal by the state; time for taking.
• § 985.536 — Order or decision when state appeals.
• § 985.556 — Waiver of juvenile court jurisdiction; hearing.
• § 985.557 — Direct filing of an information; discretionary criteria.
• § 985.56 — Indictment of a juvenile.
• § 985.565 — Sentencing powers; procedures; alternatives for juveniles prosecuted as adults.
• § 985.57 — Transfer of children from the Department of Corrections to the Department of Juvenile Justice.
• § 985.601 — Administering the juvenile justice continuum.
• § 985.6015 — Shared County/State Juvenile Detention Trust Fund.
• § 985.614 — Children locked out of the home; interagency cooperation.
• § 985.618 — Educational and career-related programs.
• § 985.619 — Florida Scholars Academy.
• § 985.622 — Multiagency plan for career and professional education (CAPE).
• § 985.629 — Contracts for the transfer of Florida children in federal custody.
• § 985.632 — Quality improvement and cost-effectiveness; Comprehensive Accountability Report.
• § 985.64 — Rulemaking.
• § 985.644 — Departmental contracting powers; personnel standards and investigation.
• § 985.6441 — Health care services.
• § 985.645 — Protective action response.
• § 985.648 — Consultants.
• § 985.652 — Participation of certain programs in the State Risk Management Trust Fund.
• § 985.66 — Juvenile justice training; staff development and training; Juvenile Justice Training Trust Fund.
• § 985.664 — Juvenile justice circuit advisory boards.
• § 985.668 — Innovation zones.
• § 985.672 — Direct-support organization; definition; use of property; board of directors; audit.
• § 985.676 — Community juvenile justice partnership grants.
• § 985.682 — Siting of facilities; criteria.
• § 985.6865 — Juvenile detention costs.
• § 985.688 — Administering county and municipal delinquency programs and facilities.
• § 985.6885 — Persons authorized to visit juvenile facilities.
• § 985.69 — Repair and maintenance funding for juvenile justice purposes.
• § 985.692 — Juvenile Welfare Trust Fund.
• § 985.701 — Sexual misconduct prohibited; reporting required; penalties.
• § 985.702 — Willful and malicious neglect of a juvenile offender prohibited; reporting required; penalties.
• § 985.711 — Introduction, removal, or possession of certain articles unlawful; penalty.
• § 985.721 — Escapes from secure detention or residential commitment facility.
• § 985.801 — Interstate Compact on Juveniles; implementing legislation; legislative findings and policy.
• § 985.802 — Execution of interstate compact for juveniles.
• § 985.8025 — State Council for Interstate Juvenile Offender Supervision.