Grant Database

Training Initiative: To support training initiative for the law enforcement, legal, and mental health communities.

Assessment of Mental Health Needs for Juveniles subject to Incarceration: To support the contract with the University of South Florida to study and determine the mental health needs of juveniles subject to short term incarceration.

Integrated Management Information Systems to Improve Judicial Access to the Appropriate Information Regarding Individual Children and Their Cases: To contract with an information technology consulting group to help the Commission create a technology report and Implementation plan to improve access by judges to information regarding individual children and their cases.

Building Public Trust and Confidence in the Legal System: To provide resources for a statewide law related education (LRE) program to impact students, teachers, judges, attorneys and policy-makers.

Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Advocacy Project – “Team Child”: To introduce the results of the formal evaluation from the pilot projects into the legislative process for the 2003 legislature.

The New Equation for 21st Century Law: Human & Civil Rights in Context of our Nation’s Response to Terrorist Attacks: To insure human and civil rights in the context of our nation’s response to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

Free Legal Help for 9-11 Victims: To provide a less complicated way for victims of the 9-11 terrorist attacks to seek compensation through the “September 11th Victim Compensation Fund” – ensuring they have access to free legal service.

Administrative Office of the Courts; Lady Justice Needs You for Jury Service: Production of a two-part informational video to help address: 1) the general public’s apathetic attitude towards the judicial system; and 2) the community’s lack of interest in performing jury service.

Advancing Law Related Education in Florida: To provide resources for a statewide law related education (LRE) program to impact students, teachers, judges, attorneys and policy-makers.

Justice in Teaching Institute: Provides an opportunity for teachers to explore justice and the framework for judicial decision-making in the state courts.

Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Advocacy Project – “Team Child”. A project designed to assist at-risk youths and their families, by linking legal assistance to the poor offices, public defender offices, and volunteer attorneys and law students to advocate for services in an attempt to resolve or ameliorate the underlying causes of delinquent behavior and break the pattern of escalating delinquent behavior. To provide operating support for three months awaiting the release of ongoing funds from other sources.

Lee County Pay-or-Appear Program: A two-year pilot project to test the “pay-or-appear” program to increase child support collections in cases not handled by the Florida Department of Revenue and decrease judicial and administrative involvement.

Tracking Florida Death Row Inmates: This project, which began in 1980, records specific information about all death penalty cases in Florida.

Proactive self-administered grant. Supreme Court Commission Message Development Project to test messages that have been developed by an Advisory Committee appointed by the Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court for a communication campaign to maximize the funding of Florida’s courts.

Perceptions in Justice: To provide general support of resources for a statewide law related education (LRE) program to impact students, teachers, judges, attorneys and policy-makers.

Florida Justice Teaching Institute: To provide funds for travel expenses for Florida middle and high school teachers to attend the Institute. The Florida Justice Teaching Institute equips teachers with the academic and clinical experiences necessary to effectively teach students about the court system.

To provide general support of the Supreme Court Historical Society whose mission is to identify, secure and preserve artifacts and documents that chronicle the evolution and history of the state’s judicial system and to educate Floridians about the critical importance of the Third Branch of government.

Florida Supreme Court Committee on Privacy and Court Records: For partial support of the work of the Supreme Court Committee on Privacy and Court Records which is charged to develop recommendations regarding policies controlling electronic release of court records, as well as to develop strategies to reduce the amount of personal and sensitive information that is unnecessarily filed in court records and thus subject to potential release.

Florida Court Public Information Officer Training: To provide funds for consultant fees and travel expenses for a three-day seminar in 2004 to train new Florida Court Public Information Officers appointed under a special directive from Florida’s Chief Justice in 2002 as part of the state judiciary’s emergency operations planning.

Reporting on the Courts and the Law: A workshop for Journalists. To provide funds for the cost of journalists, who are new to the court and legal beats, to attend an intensive two-day workshop that will educate them on judicial issues.