60S-1.0053. Criteria for Special Risk Class Membership - Correctional Officers

The criteria set forth below shall be used pursuant to Rule 60S-1.005, F.A.C., in determining membership in the Special Risk Class for members who are filling correctional officer positions, regardless of the title of such a position.

(1) Any member who seeks to be approved for Special Risk Class membership under this section, must be certified or required to be certified as a correctional officer in compliance with the Criminal Justice Standards and Training Commission, as provided in Section 943.1395, F.S.

(2) Any member who seeks Special Risk Class membership must hold one of the following correctional officer positions:

(a) Effective October 1, 1978, a correctional officer whose primary duty and responsibility is the custody and physical restraint, when necessary, of prisoners or inmates within a prison, jail, or other criminal detention facility, or while on work detail or while being transported outside the facility.

(b) Effective October 1, 1978, a Warden or Assistant Warden (regardless of title) of a correction or detention facility where duly committed inmates are confined, housed, or maintained and where correctional officers are employed. Warden shall mean the person directly in charge of the day-to-day operations of a specific correction or detention facility. Assistant Warden shall mean the one person whose responsibilities include direct line authority from the Warden over all subordinate employees for the day-to-day operations at the facility. If no one employee in a corrections facility has such responsibility, then for retirement purposes there is no assistant warden at that facility, except that in large state institutions there may be more than one assistant warden if the institution is divided into units, each having an assistant warden with direct line authority from the warden over all subordinate employees for the day to day operations within the unit.

(c) Effective July 1, 1984, a command officer or supervisor of a Special Risk Class member or members holding a position as described in paragraph (2)(a) above.

(d) Effective January 1, 2001, a community-based correctional probation officer whose primary duties and responsibilities must be the supervised custody, surveillance, control, investigation, and counseling of assigned inmates, probationers, parolees, or community controllees within the community; or the supervisor of a member who has such responsibilities; or probation and parole circuit administrator, or deputy circuit administrator.

(e) Effective July 1, 2001 through June 30, 2014, a youth custody officer of the Department of Juvenile Justice whose primary duties and responsibilities must be the supervised custody, surveillance, control, investigation, apprehension, arrest, and counseling of assigned juveniles within the community.

(3) No administrative support personnel, including but not limited to those whose primary duties and responsibilities are in accounting, purchasing, legal, and personnel, shall be admitted to Special Risk Class membership.

Rulemaking Authority 121.031 FS. Law Implemented 121.021(15), 121.0515 FS. History–New 10-2-78, Amended 9-9-82, 11-6-84, 4-17-85, Formerly 22B-1.053, 22B-1.0053, Amended 9-17-03, 4-5-12, 12-30-14.