Florida Administrative Code › 33 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS › 33 - Departmental › Chapter 33-603 - SENTENCE STRUCTURE AND TRANSPORTATION › Section 33-603.101 - Use of Committed Name

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
(1)
(a) In order to avoid conflicts in mailing
				and visiting privileges, as well as to assist inmates in making bank and
				canteen transactions and ensure timely delivery of legal documents, and to
				provide staff with a consistent means of inmate identification for security and
				daily institutional operation purposes, each inmate shall be recognized by the
				department under the name on the initial commitment under which the inmate was
				received. The committed name shall be obtained from the information or
				indictment page of the commitment package, not from the uniform commitment to
				custody cover sheet. For multiple cases imposed on separate dates, the
				committed name is the name on the information page of the commitment of the
				earliest imposed case. For multiple cases imposed on the same date, commitments
				are arranged according to service of the sentences or sequential order as
				directed by the sentencing court and the committed name is the name on the
				information page of the first imposed case as so designated. For multiple cases
				imposed on the same date where the order of sentencing cannot be determined,
				the cases are arranged numerically and the committed name is the name on the
				information page of the commitment with the lowest case number. This name shall
				be the inmate's official identification throughout the continuous incarceration
				of the inmate on that sentence or combined sentences and must be included on
				any official document sent or received by the inmate except as provided in
				subsection (3) below.
(b) The
				department shall register any known aliases on the inmate's record and shall
				also designate on the record which name is the inmate's true or legal name if
				this information is available. If an inmate's true or legal name is not the
				committed name, the inmate shall be permitted to use the true or legal name on
				documents and mail so long as the committed name and DC number appear first,
				followed by the true or legal name.
(c) Legal Religious Names.
1. Upon request of an inmate to include a
				legal religious name to the inmate identification card, the warden or facility
				head shall forward the request and supporting documentation to the Office of
				the General Counsel for verification that the inmate's name has been legally
				changed for religious reasons through court order, birth certificate or other
				legally acceptable documentation. When verification is complete, the Office of
				the General Counsel shall notify the warden or facility head in
				writing.
2. The institution or
				facility shall affix a label to the reverse side of the inmate identification
				card which bears the following:
This is to certify that the legal religious name of inmate
				  DC# ________ is
[INSERT LEGAL RELIGIOUS NAME]
__________________________________________
[Signature] Warden or Facility Head, Name of
				  Facility
3. A legal
				religious name change does not require that the department alter official
				records; the inmate's committed name shall be used for all department
				business.
(d) Nothing in
				this rule prohibits issuance of an educational or vocational certificate in the
				inmate's true or legal name providing that the office issuing such certificate
				provides a photocopy of the certificate to be placed in the inmate's
				institutional file and such copy also reflects the inmate's committed name and
				identification number.