Dependency Law Finder

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

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§ 39.3065 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".

§ 39.3065 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 § 39.3065

  1. Freyre v. Cronister 910 F.3d 1371 · CA11-17-11231 · 11th Cir. 2018

    Affirmed This opinion cites § 39.3065 5 times, the section generally

    · cited by 35 in all courts

    Sheriff doing child-protective investigations under a state grant is not an arm of the state, so lacks Eleventh Amendment immunity; other interlocutory issues unreviewed.

    …Florida Legislature required DCF to transfer all responsibility for child-protective investigations in certain counties to the county sheriff. Fla. Stat. § 39.3065(1). As to the remaining counties, including Hillsborough County, the Legislature gave DCF the option to transfer DCF’s responsibility for child- protective…

0 admin code rules cite § 39.3065

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 § 39.3065.

0 CFOPs cite § 39.3065

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

No CFOP cites § 39.3065.