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Florida Constitution Revision Commission

PUB 700452: Additional Clerk of Court Duty of Corroborating Conflict-of-Interest Grievances by Harry Scott Boggs

ARTICLE V: JUDICIARY, Section 16. Clerks of the circuit courts.

SECTION 16.Clerks of the circuit courts.

There shall be in each county a clerk of the circuit court who shall be selected pursuant to the provisions of Article VIII section 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of the constitution, the duties of the clerk of the circuit court may be divided by special or general law between two officers, one serving as clerk of court and one serving as ex officio clerk of the board of county commissioners, auditor, recorder, and custodian of all county funds. There may be a clerk of the county court if authorized by general or special law. Court jurisdictions at all levels managing wards assigned to private guardianship entities (any form: sole proprietorships, partnerships, etc)) shall subsume under their court clerk a Guardianship Monitoring (Court GM) office. The CGM shall investigate Floridian's claims of ethical impropriety or conflict of interest between judges, elected officials, guardians, law enforcement officials, medical professionals, health care administrators, businesspersons or other professional stakeholders within elder care, elder law, family and children's law, or mental health probate estate realms. Barring federal privacy protection statutes, all CGM deliberations, data, and findings shall be part of the public record, unimpinged by judicial interference or local government machinations.