Dependency Law Finder

Florida's dependency statutes, court rules and DCF operating procedures, with the appellate opinions that apply them

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§ 39.031 Former number


Each citation is matched to today's text through the statutes the opinion applied (1997 on), so renumbered subsections land in the right place; those show "Cited as".

§ 39.031 isn't in the 2026 Florida Statutes. No current section names it as a former number; many pre-1998 numbers were delinquency provisions, which moved to Chapter 985 in 1997. The opinions below cite it by this number.

1 opinion cite § 39.031

  1. James v. State 453 So. 2d 786 · SC62557 · Florida Supreme Court 1984

    This opinion cites § 39.031 1 time, the section generally

    · cited by 58 in all courts

    …provides that juvenile records are confidential and can be inspected only on court order by persons deemed to have a proper interest in such records. [2] § 39.031(2)(c), Fla. Stat. (1981), provides that photographs of juvenile offenders can be distributed to law enforcement agencies. [3] Prejudice is the key question in…

0 admin code rules cite § 39.031

DCF's rules in Chapter 65C, Florida Administrative Code, that cite it or name it as the law they implement.

No admin code rule cites § 39.031.

0 CFOPs cite § 39.031

How DCF carries it out. A page opens in the CFOP reader with the citation highlighted.

No CFOP cites § 39.031.