Marion County v. Department of Juvenile Justice

These three appellate cases are all that remain of a large consolidated appeal involving the Department of Juvenile Justice (the Department) and twenty Florida counties over the juvenile detention cost-sharing system in section 985.686, Florida Statutes. The three appellant counties, Marion, Polk, and Seminole, joined seventeen other counties in challenging the Department’s annual reconciliations of their estimated costs with the actual costs of secure juvenile detention, arguing, among other things, that the Department’s reconciliation contravened section 985.686. After legislation was…