Contracts

The Office of Justice Coordination maintains oversight of more than fifty (50) justice related contracts. These contracts include areas such as law enforcement services, substance abuse treatment, jail diversion programs, an inebriate center, legal aid services, juvenile detention, child protection examinations, a re-entry collaborative project, and public safety.

 

The following is a brief summary of major contracts of which our office provides administrative oversight and a link to their web sites:

 

• Help A Child Inc.
  Pinellas County’s designated Child Protection Team which provides specialized diagnostic assessments of allegedly abused and neglected children per legislative mandate.
  

 

• Gulfcoast Legal Aid Services, Inc.
  State mandated county funding for legal aid services for indigent county residents.
  

 

• Department of Juvenile Justice
  State mandated funding which requires counties to share in the cost for the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice pre-dispositional detention care.
  

 

• Westcare Gulfcoast
  Florida’s Turning Point Inebriate Center – Local funding agreement between Westcare Gulfcoast - Florida, Inc. and Pinellas County for shelter, substance abuse education, case management, and housing for those in need.
  

 

• Data Collaborative
  The Pinellas County Data Collaborative was established in the fall of 1999 as a result of Chapter 163.62 Florida Statute, which allowed governmental and certain private agencies to share information. Signatory agencies propose research questions to USF/FMHI for policy making and planning
  

 

• Drug Court Treatment Funding for the Sixth Judicial Circuit
  County provides local funding for adult drug court and juvenile diversion programs.
  

 

• Guardian Ad Litem Program
  State mandated funding which requires counties to share in the cost of the program by providing for space and communications
  

 

• Sixth Judicial Circuit Personnel
  County provides funding for approximately 40 court personnel who report directly to the Chief Judge of the Sixth Circuit as per the Interlocal agreement enacted in 1996 and continues presently. The Florida Interlocal Cooperation Act of 1969 says, in part, that the County and the Court wish by agreement to provide for the obligations of the County and the Court created hereby and to more fully provide the rights and duties of county funded court employees
  

 

• Medical Examiner and Forensic Laboratory
  The mission of the Medical Examiner’s office is to fulfill the needs outlined in F.S. 406, to be of service to families of the deceased, and local government agencies.
  

 

• Law Enforcement Contracts
  The Office of Justice Coordination serves as a conduit to manage federal, state, and local funding initiatives directed towards public safety. The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office contracts with local municipalities and public and private entities to provide services such as law enforcement, forensics, latents, evidence and property storage, Augmented Crime Investigated Support System (ACISS), Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD), and off duty patrols
  

 

 

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