Pinellas County, a political etc. v. Florida Department of Juvenile Justice

On Motion For Clarification And Rehearing

KELSEY, J.

We grant Appellant’s Motion for Clarification and Rehearing, withdraw our previous opinion, and substitute the following opinion quashing footnote 1 in the Department’s Final Order On Remand.

This case is one of many now pending before this Court, with more in the pipeline, between the Department of Juvenile Justice (“Department”) and certain of Florida’s non-fiscally-constrained counties. The issues relate to allocating between the State and counties the costs of secure juvenile detention care as required by section 985.686 of the Florida…