Florida Administrative Code › 60 - DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT SERVICES › 60S - Division of Retirement › Chapter 60S-1 - MEMBERSHIP › Section 60S-1.0053 - Criteria for Special Risk Class Membership - Correctional Officers

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
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.