99-27-B, SUPERSEDES 98-28-B IN RE: PROCEDURE FOR PROCESSING CIVIL ARRESTEES IN FAMILY LAW, DUTIES OF JAIL OVERSIGHT REVIEW COMMITTEE IN SUCH CASES - ORDERED 9/08/1999 BY J. PRESTON SILVERNAIL
EXCERPT: “From time to time, there are inmates in the Brevard County Detention Center who have been arrested pursuant to Writs of Bodily Attachments issued in family law cases for failure to appear and show cause at enforcement hearings concerning child support, alimony or attorneys’ fees.
IT IS ORDERED:
1. The First Appearance Judge shall see all such inmates and shall give effect to any purge amount set forth in the Writ of Bodily Attachment; and if there is no stated purge amount, then the First Appearance Judge shall set a purge amount, if appropriate. Additionally, the First Appearance Judge shall enter an Order for the arrestee to appear before the appropriate judge or hearing officer within 48 hours as designated by the chief judge. Prior to the end of the next business day after said First Appearance, the Clerk of the Court shall telephonically advise said judge’s judicial assistant or hearing officer of said person’s incarceration and forthwith send the judge or hearing officer and all parties in the case a copy of the Writ of Bodily Attachment, together with Form 923.01.
2. The Jail Oversight Review Committee shall immediately commence to monitor the above-described inmates and report to the judge or hearing officer whose order led to the arrest, any inmate who has been confined for 48 hours.
3. This order does not apply to inmates who are confined pursuant to Court Orders finding them to be in contempt of court and imposing a jail sentence without an opportunity to purge (criminal contempt) or imposing a jail sentence with an opportunity to purge (civil contempt).
Done and Ordered this 8th day of September 1999.”