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Circuit 13 advisory board recommends adopting Pinellas/Polk civil‑citation model to raise utilization
Summary
The Circuit 13 advisory board voted to recommend that stakeholders adopt a model used in Pinellas and Polk counties to increase pre‑arrest delinquency citation use, and approved related steps including SOP updates, training, and improved documentation of non‑issuance.
Rob Parkinson, vice chair of the Circuit 13 Advisory Board for Juvenile Justice, moved and the board approved a recommendation that stakeholders adopt a Pinellas/Polk civil‑citation model to increase local issuance of pre‑arrest delinquency citations.
The recommendation grew from a multi‑year review by a data‑driven subcommittee led by juvenile diversion staff. Judy Royston, a juvenile diversion representative, presented recent citation data and the subcommittee’s findings. “For the month of April 2025, we processed 65 pre arrest delinquency citations. 36 were from the community, and 29 were from the schools,” Royston said during her presentation.
Why it matters: the subcommittee’s review found Hillsborough County’s civil‑citation utilization rates lag regional peers. The committee reported utilization rates of 66% (Dec. 2021–Nov. 2022), 64% (Dec. 2022–Nov. 2023) and 62% (Dec. 2023–Nov. 2024). By contrast, the…
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