Warrants
Templates for Legal Documents
Legal documents cannot be submitted through this website.
All documents must be submitted via e-mail to intakele@sao8.org for review
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.
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Drone Template
This application & warrant are used when your investigation requires the use of a Drone.
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DUI, Serious Bodily Injury, Blood
Only for DUI with serious injury or death to obtain defendant’s blood.
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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.
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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.
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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).”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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Search For Cell Phone
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.
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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.
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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).”
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Search for Electronic Device - Narcotics Case
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Motion And Order To Extend Search Warrant
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).
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Motion And Order to Seal Search Warrant App And Return
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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.
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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.