• Prevention and Victim Services provides voluntary delinquent prevention programs by contracting with and offering grants to service providers. The programs are designed to help high-risk youth avoid committing crimes.
• Detention provides temporary supervision in secure facilities for youth waiting to be seen by a judge or waiting for placement in a residential commitment program.
• Probation and Community Intervention supervises youth who are participating in sanctions and services while they remain in their communities.
• Residential Services supervises youth who have been adjudicated (found guilty) by the court and sent to state residential commitment programs.

• Prevention and Victim Services served a total of 33,495 youth through state and federally funded prevention programs in Fiscal Year 2018-19.
• Detention served 13,031 youth under secure detention, 8,491 youth in home detention, and 3,105 youth by electronic monitoring in Fiscal Year 2018-19.
• Probation and Community Intervention served more than 42,000 youth in Fiscal Year 2018-19.
• Residential Services served 4,243 youth through commitment programs in Fiscal Year 2018-19.
  

• Bureau of Finance and Accounting manages the financial information of the department. The bureau is made up of four units which are Accounts Payable, Contracts and Grants, Cost of Care Recovery, and Reconciliation and Reporting.
• Central Communications Center (CCC) receives incident reports from each respective area (Prevention and Victim Services, Detention, Probation and Community Intervention, or Residential Services) that involve the delivery of services, safety, or security at a DJJ facility or program. Citizens can also report incidents to the center. Examples of reportable incidents include program disruption, escapes or absconds, and medical incidents.
• Office of Inspector General conducts independent administrative investigations of program incidents involving staff or juvenile offenders; these include incidents that are reported to the CCC. The Inspector General's Office also conducts investigations into fraud and abuse within the agency and pre-employment background screening to ensure that staff members working with juveniles do not have a disqualifying criminal background. The office includes the Background Screening Unit, the Central Communications Center, the Bureau of Internal Audit, and the Bureau of Investigations.
• Office of Program Accountability monitors programs operated and contracted by the department to ensure that the programs effectively provide youth with safety, well-being, and treatment. This office includes the Bureau of Monitoring and Quality Improvement, the Bureau of Contract Management, the Policy Development Unit, the Risk Management Unit, the Bureau of Procurement and Contract Administration, and the Programming and Technical Assistance Unit.

Juvenile Justice Changes. The 2018 Legislature enacted Ch. 2019-167, Laws of Florida, which removes mandatory direct file, which is the required transfer of certain youth to adult court. A state attorney may still transfer a youth to adult court under discretionary direct file based on the youth's age, offense, and prior criminal record. The bill also made changes to civil citations. It added a locally authorized entity to the list of entities that can operate a civil citation program as long as the program was already operating as of October 1, 2018, and approved by the state attorney.  Additionally, the bill transfers data entry responsibility from DJJ to the civil citation program. It requires the program to enter data into DJJ's data system within seven days of the youth's admission.

DJJ Visitation. The 2018 Legislature enacted Ch. 2018-47, Laws of Florida, which allows authorized people to visit DJJ facilities. Authorized people include the Governor, a cabinet member, a member of the Legislature, a judge of a state court, a state attorney, a public defender, or a person authorized by the secretary of the department.

Diversion Program Expunction. The 2018 Legislature enacted Ch. 2018-127, Laws of Florida, which requires the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to adopt rules for the expunction of nonjudicial records for a juvenile after successfully completing a diversion program for a misdemeanor offense. Additionally, the department cannot charge a processing fee for expunctions of nonjudicial records for juveniles under this category.  Additionally, the law allows for a juvenile who successfully completes a diversion program for a first-time misdemeanor to deny or fail to acknowledge participation in the diversion program and expunction of the nonjudicial arrest record unless asked by a criminal justice agency for the purpose of determining eligibility for a diversion program, a criminal investigation, or making a prosecutorial decision.

Prolific Juvenile Offenders.  The 2017 Legislature enacted Ch. 2017-164, Laws of Florida, which defines certain repeat juvenile offenders as prolific juvenile offenders and increases the use of detention for these offenders. The law defines prolific juvenile offenders using three criteria in s. 985.255(1)(j), Florida Statutes. The first criterion is that the child is charged with a delinquent act that would be a felony if committed by an adult. The second is that the child has a previous adjudication or adjudication withheld for a felony offense or delinquent act that would be a felony if committed by an adult. Finally, the child must have five or more of any of the following, with at least three for felony offenses or delinquent acts that would have been felonies if committed by an adult: an arrest event for which a disposition has not been entered; an adjudication; or an adjudication withheld.

The law increases the use of detention for prolific juvenile offenders by requiring that a prolific juvenile offender be placed in nonsecure detention with electronic monitoring or secure detention under a special detention order until disposition, which is the final decision by the court about sanctions, conditions, or services. The 2018 Legislature enacted Ch. 2018-86, Laws of Florida, which requires a prolific juvenile offender who is taken into custody for violation of the nonsecure detention conditions to be placed in secure detention until a hearing occurs.

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