“The challenge that we are seeing within the department is that there are vacant positions all over the place.”īrandes said the decision to shutter prisons is one made out of “desperation to move staff.” “This should come as a shock to nobody because, essentially, we’ve been treated like the boy who cried wolf for years and, unfortunately, at this juncture, the wolf has come,” said Senate Criminal Justice Vice Chair Jeff Brandes, R-St. Though the prison closures will have significant impacts on their local economies, the moves are not completely surprising. The number of officers moving is not going to solve the vacancy problem.” “It is going to help but it is going to have a minor impact,” Baiardi said. The state agency said staff will not lose their job or rank and that it will make every effort to maintain inmates in their current custody status. Please be aware that subpoenas directed to the Department of Corrections and staff should not be submitted as a Public Records Request at the link above and instead should be served on the Department or staff pursuant to Florida Statute and the Florida and Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.The Department of Corrections confirmed the prison closures in a statement. Requests for Education Records must be accompanied by a properly executed Department of Corrections Consent and Authorization for Use and Disclosure, Inspection and Release of Confidential Education Information, Form DC5-165. Pursuant to Section 1002.221, Florida Statutes, requests for educational records of a current or former inmate, including personally identifiable records or reports of a student and any personal information contained therein are confidential and/exempt from Public Records. Without the submittal of a properly executed DC4-711B any such information will be redacted from the requested record(s). In addition to an inmate's medical chart, their protected health information can appear within other records. 33-401.701(10), F.A.C., requests for medical records of a current or former inmate must be specific, in writing, and accompanied by a properly executed Department of Corrections Release (form DC4-711B, DC4-711B-Spanish), or legally approved HIPAA compliant release form of another governmental agency. Please find a list of Institutions here: Institutionsįor all other records requests, please click here Additional Information Requests for Active Inmate Records may be submitted to the institution currently housing the inmate. Public records law does not require that an agency create records, give out information from their records, answer questions about their records, perform gratuitous research, reclassify their records into the manner requested, or produce records in a format other than that in which they are maintained.įor purposes of the notice requirements of sections 119.07(1)(b) and 119.12(1)(b), Florida Statutes, the contact information for the department’s custodian of public records is: Inmate location, status and identifying information can be found here.
You may wish to visit the Offender Search to locate information needed to process your request. Generally, cost estimates can be minimized by greater specificity of the request. The preparation of records includes the review and redacting which occurs subsequent to receipt of payment. The majority of the Department's public records must be reviewed for confidential and/or exempt information which will be redacted and produced with the applicable statutory exemptions. This includes the provision of cost estimates for production of records. FDC processes public records requests in accordance with Ch.
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