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All documents must be submitted via e-mail to intakele@sao8.org for review

General Warrants

Drug Investigation

Peer to Peer

CSAM Batch

Related Documents

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Bank Account Seizure With Money Hold

This application & warrant are used when your investigation requires securing the contents of a bank account. The wording in this document allows the Court to freeze the contents of the account. The money remains with the bank, but cannot be moved, taken or accessed without Court approval.

  • Bank Account Seizure with money hold
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    Drone Template

    This application & warrant are used when your investigation requires the use of a Drone.

  • Drone Template (To accompany primary warrant)
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    DUI, Serious Bodily Injury, Blood

    Only for DUI with serious injury or death to obtain defendant’s blood.

  • DUI, Serious Bodily Injury, Blood
  • DUI, Serious Bodily Injury, Blood "Auto Populated"
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    Blood Draw, Not DUI

    This application & warrant are to be used when you are seeking a blood sample from your suspect as evidence.

  • Blood Draw, Not DUI
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    Cell Phone In Evidence

    This warrant & application are to be used when a cellular phone has already been seized or placed into property, but you have not been able to get permission to search it. ***Do NOT open or operate phone to get description, just what you can see.
    If you are not doing the electronic search yourself, you should add a Motion to extend time.

  • Cell Phone In Evidence

  • Cell Phone In Evidence "Auto-Populated"

  • Motion To Extend
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    Cell Tower Dump

    This application & order are used when you have a SIGNIFICANT CRIME (Murder, Armed Home Invasion Robbery, etc) & need historical cell tower records to identify all calls made in a particular location during a particular time/date frame. The order includes sealing as a default. If your suspect it unknown, state “UKNOWN SUBJECT(S).”

  • Cell Tower Dump
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    Electronic Device In Evidence

    This warrant and application are used when you want to search an electronic deviceother than a phone, (computer, thumb drive, xbox, etc.), that has already been seized or placed into evidence. ***Do NOT open or operate phone to get description, just what you can see.
    If you are not doing the electronic search yourself, you should add a Motion to extend time.

  • Electronic Device In Evidence

  • Motion To Extend
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    Facebook Account Content

    This application and warrant are used when you need content from Facebook, Inc. You will also need to attach a motion to extend time for the search warrant return.

  • Facebook Account Content

  • Motion To Extend
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    General Item in Evidence

    This application & warrant are to be used when a non-electronic item has been taken into evidence/property and needs to be searched. This is for things like a suitcase, mail packages, etc. If you have something electronic/digital like a computer, you will need to modify the CELL PHONE IN EVIDENCE application & warrant to fit your needs.

  • General Item in Evidence
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    Medical Records & Items

    This application & warrant are used when you need to obtain patient medical records from a medical facility. If you have reason to believe that the facility still possesses a biological specimen such as blood, include the highlighted language regarding “items.” If you are only seeking records, you can remove the language about items and replace with “records.” Please note, most medical facilities hold their biological specimens for a very limited time so if you wish to seize these things, you will need to move quickly and communicate this to the reviewing attorney/judge. The language in this warrant DOES allow you to send seized specimens to FDLE or another lab for further analysis.

  • Medical Records & Items
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    Frankenstein

    Use this template when you want to get everything you possibly can from a cell phone company (this includes phone content).

  • Frankenstein
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    Phone Order

    (For Historical or Future Data)

    This order should be used when you need to acquire information regarding the location, incoming & outgoing calls, texts, etc. of a phone for an historical time period and for a LIMITED amount of time subsequent to the order. This order will NOT provide you with content, only with phone numbers, locations, etc. This order is typically used to locate a dangerous felon, with or without a pending warrant, by tracking his/her phone usage during the relevant time period. Please consider filing this with a simultaneous motion to extend time.

  • Phone Order (For Historical or Future Data)
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    Ping Order Template

    This application is for the current phone location (“ping”) and other phone information for an on-going criminal investigation. It does not include the content of communications. (see “Frankenstein” for everything available from a phone company).

  • Ping Order Template
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    Reset Google Password

    This application & warrant are used when you need to access a Google account through a password and need google to reset the password to allow you in. It is entirely possible that Google will not be able to do this in the future as they continue to upgrade their security. When using this document, please automatically complete a Motion to Extend the time for your Return AND a Motion to Seal this warrant so the information is not disclosed by Google to your suspect.

  • Reset Google Password

  • Motion To Extend

  • Motion to Seal

  • Non-Disclosure of Warrant to Media Company
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    Voluntary Forfeiture of Seized Items

  • Voluntary Forfeiture of Seized Items
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    Exigent Circumstances Phone Order

    This document is to be used when a life-threatening injury or danger (or escaped convict) required the IMMEDIATE issuance of a phone order to track the location of the phone holder. The emergency must have been so urgent that it could not wait until a judge could review the order. Under those circumstances, you may get the information from the phone company, but then you must follow up with this document within 48 hours of the emergency.

  • Exigent Circumstances Phone Order
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    This warrant and application are used when you want to search a property for a cellular phone.
    If you are not doing the electronic search yourself, you should add a Motion to extend time.

  • Search For Cell Phone

  • Motion To Extend
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    Cell Phone in Evidence - Narcotics Case

    This warrant & application are to be used when a cellular phone has already been seized or placed into property on a drug case, but you have not been able to get permission to search it. This is intended for officers who have specialized training in narcotics investigations. ***Do NOT open or operate phone to get description, just what you can see.
    If you are not doing the electronic search yourself, you should add a Motion to extend time.

  • Cell Phone in Evidence - Narcotics Case

  • Motion To Extend
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    Residence for Drugs

    This application & warrant are to be used when you want to search a home or other structure for suspected drug activity. If you do not know the name of the suspect or owner of the property, please refer to them as “Unknown suspect(s)” or “Unknown Person(s).”

  • Residence for Drugs
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    This warrant & application are to be used when you want to search a structure for & seize electronic devices other than a cell phone in the course of a narcotics investigation.
    If you are not doing the electronic search yourself, you should add a Motion to extend time.

  • Search for Electronic Device - Narcotics Case

  • Motion To Extend
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    Tracker for Narcotics Inv.

    This application & order are used when you need to track a motor vehicle during a narcotics investigation. Please be sure to also do a Motion to Seal when submitting this application.

  • Tracker for Narcotics Inv.

  • Motion to Seal
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    Vehicle for Drugs

  • Vehicle for Drugs
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    P2P Electronic Device in Evidence

    This warrant and application are used when you want to search an electronic device such as a cellular phone, computer, thumb drive, xbox, etc., that has already been seized or placed into evidence and you are searching for evidence pertaining to a peer to peer child pornography investigation. ***Do NOT open or operate phone to get description, just what you can see.
    If you are not doing the electronic search yourself, you should add a Motion to extend time.

  • P2P Electronic Device in Evidence

  • Motion To Extend
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    P2P to Seize Electronic Device P2P

    This warrant and application are used when you want to search a property for electronic devices such as a cellular phone, computer, thumb drive, xbox, etc., and you are searching for evidence pertaining to a peer to peer child pornography investigation.
    If you are not doing the electronic search yourself, you should add a Motion to extend time.

  • P2P to Seize Electronic Device P2P

  • Motion To Extend
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    CSAM Batch

  • Batch CSAM
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    This motion & order are used when you know you will need more than the standard ten (10) days to produce your warrant return to the Court. This should be completed immediately (at the time you apply for your warrant) when issuing a warrant to any cell phone company, social media company, or any organization with a physical location outside of Florida. Other situations should be considered on a case by case basis. If you did not realize that you would need more than ten days to complete your return, submit this motion as soon as you are aware (and within the ten day period).

  • Motion And Order To Extend Search Warrant
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    Motion And Order To Seal Mittimus

  • Motion And Order To Seal Mittimus
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  • Motion And Order to Seal Search Warrant App And Return
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  • Motion And Order To Unseal Search Warrant
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    Return SW Inventory

  • Return SW Inventory
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    Non-Disclosure of Warrant to Media Company

    Use this document when you have sent a search warrant to Facebook, Google or another business that automatically notifies its subscribers when a court has granted access into their personal information. Complete this document at the time of the search warrant and submit to the court with the warrant.

  • Non-Disclosure of Warrant to Media Company
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    Non-Disclosure of Subpoena Duces Tecum to Media Company

    Use this document when you have sent a SDT warrant to Facebook, Google or another business that automatically notifies its subscribers when a court has granted access into their personal information.

  • Non-Disclosure of Subpoena Duces Tecum to Media Company
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    Subpoena DT Request

  • Subpoena DT Request
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