S.G. v. Vurro

NORTHCUTT, Judge.

S.G., a child, was found to be in indirect criminal contempt of a truancy order and sentenced to five days of secure detention in the Southwest Florida Juvenile Detention Center. He filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus, asserting that a sentence to secure detention in a case such as his is illegal. S.G. has since been released. However, we decline to dismiss the petition as moot because the issue presented is capable of repetition yet evading review. See K.E. v. Dep’t of Juvenile Justice, 963 So.2d 864, 866 (Fla. 1st DCA 2007).

A delinquent child who has been held in…