Case Name: The SCHOOL BOARD OF SEMINOLE COUNTY, Florida, Petitioner, v. The Honorable Kenneth M. LEFFLER, Circuit Judge, 18th Judicial Circuit, Seminole County, Florida, Respondent
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1985-05-16
Citations: 472 So. 2d 481
Docket Number: No. 85-304
Parties: The SCHOOL BOARD OF SEMINOLE COUNTY, Florida, Petitioner, v. The Honorable Kenneth M. LEFFLER, Circuit Judge, 18th Judicial Circuit, Seminole County, Florida, Respondent.
Judges: DAUKSCH and SHARP, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 472
Pages: 481–481

Head Matter:
The SCHOOL BOARD OF SEMINOLE COUNTY, Florida, Petitioner, v. The Honorable Kenneth M. LEFFLER, Circuit Judge, 18th Judicial Circuit, Seminole County, Florida, Respondent.
No. 85-304.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.
May 16, 1985.
Rehearing Denied July 9, 1985.
Ned N. Julian, Jr., of Stenstrom, McIntosh, Julian, Colbert & Whigham, P.A., Sanford, for petitioner.
Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., and Shirley A. Walker, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, for respondent.

Opinion:
COWART, Judge.
The juvenile judge may, pursuant to section 39.08(1), Florida Statutes, order the child named in a petition for delinquency to be evaluated by a district school board educational needs assessment team. However, that statute does not authorize the juvenile judge to order the district school board to cause such an assessment team to evaluate such child, nor to order the district school board to provide an educational program as an alternative to its expulsion of the child from the public schools.
The writ is issued and the juvenile judge is prohibited from enforcing that certain order dated January 29, 1985, in the juvenile case of In the Interest ofG.L.H., Nos. 84-1444CJA and 84-1466CJA, in the Juvenile Division of the Circuit Court of the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit, in and for Seminole County, Florida.
PETITION FOR WRIT IS GRANTED.
DAUKSCH and SHARP, JJ., concur.