Pretrial Release - Citizens Right to Know – Orange County, FL

Pretrial Release - Citizens Right to Know is the annual Pretrial Release Program Report of the Orange County Corrections Department (OCCD) for January 2024 to December 2024, delivered as an interoffice memorandum to the Mayor and county commissioners under Section 907.043, Florida Statutes.

The PDF has two parts: a one-page memorandum dated March 26, 2025, and the report itself, titled Citizens Right to Know Act, Pretrial Release Program Report. The report is the department's sixteenth annual report. Section 907.043 is part of the Citizens Right to Know Act and requires each pretrial release program in the State to report for the previous calendar year to the county's governing body and to the clerk of the circuit court.

The report explains that OCCD runs two programs that together make up its Pretrial Release program (PTR):

• Pretrial Services, which investigates pretrial detainees, informs the judiciary at first appearance court and processes releases to supervision.
• Pretrial Supervision, which supervises pretrial detainees in the community and drug-tests non-supervised offenders.

It also gives the legal background (Article I, Section 14 of the Florida Constitution and Section 907.041(3), Florida Statutes), a unit-by-unit description of duties, and program results for 2024, including the definition of the success rate. The report is a published data document, not an application or a permit.

The report is addressed to the county's governing body and the clerk of the circuit court. As the report describes Section 907.043, Florida Statutes, every pretrial release program in the State must send an annual report for the previous calendar year to the governing body and to the clerk of the circuit court in the county where the program is located. The memorandum in this PDF is addressed to the Mayor and the Commissioners for Districts 1 through 6, with copies to the County Administrator, the Deputy County Administrator, the Orange County Comptroller, the County Attorney and two Deputy Chiefs.

The statute defines a pretrial release program (PTR) as a public or private entity that:

• conducts investigations of pretrial detainees;
• makes pretrial release recommendations to a court;
• electronically monitors and supervises pretrial defendants.

Residents, researchers and others who want to see how Orange County's pretrial programs operate and what they achieved in 2024 can read the same report. The document asks nothing of the reader: nobody fills in an application or enters personal information to receive a service.

Under Section 907.043, Florida Statutes, each pretrial release program must submit its annual report no later than March 31 of every year, covering the previous calendar year. This report covers January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2024, and its memorandum to the county's governing body is dated March 26, 2025, five days before the March 31 deadline. The report is annual, so a new one follows each year for the year just ended. The document gives no processing time because nothing is requested from the reader.

The report is delivered by the program to two recipients named in the statute: the county's governing body and the clerk of the circuit court of the county where the program is located. Details in the document:

• Governing body: the memorandum is addressed to the Mayor and the Commissioners for Districts 1 through 6, with copies to county administration, the Comptroller and the County Attorney.
• Clerk of the circuit court: the statute also requires the report to go to the clerk; the PDF is published on the Orange County Clerk of Courts website at https://www.myorangeclerk.com/sites/default/files/2026-07/Pretrial-Release---Citizens-Right-to-Know_0.pdf.

The document prints no mailing address, portal, fee or appointment rule, and it directs questions to the memo's author in the Corrections Department. FillingPDF lets you fill out and download the PDF; submission follows the channels above.