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The 2025 Florida Statutes
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F.S. 39.30639.306 Child protective investigations; working agreements with local law enforcement.—The department shall enter into agreements with the jurisdictionally responsible county sheriffs’ offices and local police departments that will assume the lead in conducting any potential criminal investigations arising from allegations of child abuse, abandonment, or neglect. The written agreement must specify how the requirements of this chapter will be met. For the purposes of such agreement, the jurisdictionally responsible law enforcement entity is authorized to share Florida criminal history and local criminal history information that is not otherwise exempt from s. 119.07(1) with the district personnel, authorized agent, or contract provider directly responsible for the child protective investigation and emergency child placement. The agencies entering into such agreement must comply with s. 943.0525. Criminal justice information provided by such law enforcement entity shall be used only for the purposes specified in the agreement and shall be provided at no charge. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Department of Law Enforcement shall provide to the department electronic access to Florida criminal justice information which is lawfully available and not exempt from s. 119.07(1), only for the purpose of child protective investigations and emergency child placement. As a condition of access to such information, the department shall be required to execute an appropriate user agreement addressing the access, use, dissemination, and destruction of such information and to comply with all applicable laws and regulations, and rules of the Department of Law Enforcement.History.—s. 44, ch. 98-403; s. 11, ch. 99-168.
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Annotations, Discussions, Cases:
Cases Citing Statute 39.306
Total Results: 4
826 So. 2d 272, 2002 WL 2020158
Supreme Court of Florida | Filed: Sep 5, 2002 | Docket: 1197660
Cited 37 times | Published
agency. See § 39.301(2), Fla. Stat. (2001). Section 39.306 further provides that the department shall
979 So. 2d 896, 2008 WL 657867
Supreme Court of Florida | Filed: Mar 13, 2008 | Docket: 1714383
Cited 34 times | Published
assessments shall include "forensic interviews"); id. § 39.306 (requiring CPTs to enter into agreements with
946 So. 2d 1270, 2007 WL 188417
District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Jan 26, 2007 | Docket: 1770987
Cited 26 times | Published
imposed on it by chapter 39. In this regard, section 39.306 provides, in pertinent part:
The [Department
910 So. 2d 901, 2005 WL 2219023
District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Sep 14, 2005 | Docket: 1494563
Cited 8 times | Published
and prosecution of child sexual abuse cases. See § 39.306, Fla. Stat. (2004) ("The department shall enter
