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Notice: 7796295

Notice of Development of Rulemaking

Department:

DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS

Chapter:

CLASSIFICATION AND CENTRAL RECORDS

Overview

RULE:

33-601.713	Inmate Visitation - Definitions
33-601.714	Inmate Visiting - General
33-601.715	Visitation Application Initiation Process
33-601.716	Visiting Record Management
33-601.717	Visitation Denial
33-601.725	Permissible Items for Visitors
33-601.731	Suspension of Visitation Privileges
33-601.732	Reinstatement of Suspended Visitation Privileges
33-601.733	Visiting - Special Status Inmates
33-601.735	Non-Contact Visiting
33-601.737	Visiting - Forms (Repealed)

PURPOSE:

The purpose and effect of the proposed rulemaking is: to amend Rule 33-601.713, F.A.C., to clarify language and add a definition of “major rule violation” for the purpose of visiting privileges suspension; to amend Rule 33-601.714, F.A.C., to clarify the warden’s authority to deny or terminate a visit; to amend Rule 33-601.715, F.A.C., to correct language referring to the wrong form; to amend Rule 33-601.716, F.A.C., to clarify the circumstances under which an individual may be on the visiting list of more than one non-family inmate; to substantially reword Rule 33-601.717, F.A.C., to clarify the circumstances under which an individual may be denied visiting privileges; to amend Rule 33-601.725, F.A.C., to include a photo ID and a copy of a notarized authorization to supervise a minor as permissible items for visitors to possess; to amend Rule 33-601.731, F.A.C., to clarify the circumstances under which an individual’s visiting privileges may be suspended and to incorporate by reference the Visiting Privileges Suspension Matrix, which specifies the time period of suspensions in relation to their underlying infractions; to amend Rule 33-601.732, F.A.C., to clarify the procedure for reinstatement of suspended visiting privileges; to amend Rule 33-601.733, F.A.C., to include language being moved from Rule 33-601.734, F.A.C., concerning the visiting privileges of inmates in confinement and protective management statuses; to amend Rule 33-601.735, F.A.C., to clarify that noncontact visits for confinement and protective management status inmates must be pre-approved by the warden or designee; and to amend Rule 33-601.737, F.A.C., to clarify language on Form DC6-111D, Visitor Screening Matrix, regarding visiting applicants who are former victims of an inmate.

SUBJECT:

Inmate Visitation.

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY:

944.09, 944.23 FS.

LAW:

20.315, 944.09, 944.23, 944.47, 944.8031 FS.

PRINT PUBLISH DATE:

10/23/2009 Vol. 35/42

RELATED STATUTES
AND LAWS:

944.09, 944.23 FS., 20.315, 944.09, 944.23, 944.47, 944.8031 FS.

OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE:

Joint Administrative Procedures Committee
Florida Administrative Law Central Online Network (F.A.L.C.O.N.)

RELATED COURT CASES:

Division of Administrative Hearings

FEDERAL eRULEMAKING
WEB PORTAL:

Regulations.gov

HOW TO LINK TO
THIS NOTICE:

http://www.flrules.org/gateway/ruleno.asp?id=33-601.713&PDate=10/23/2009&Section=1

REFERENCE MATERIALS:

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