DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN & FAMILY v. BURTON

No. 2D00-4820.

802 So.2d 467 (2001)

DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES, Petitioner, v. Gary Wayne BURTON, Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

December 21, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Jennifer R. Haymes, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Petitioner.

Michelle Pincket, Lakeland, for Respondent.


SILBERMAN, Judge.

The Florida Department of Children and Family Services (the Department) seeks certiorari review of an order granting Gary Wayne Burton's motion for access to a computer and to Westlaw, a computer-based legal research service. The Department also seeks review of an order denying its motion to vacate the access order. Because the circuit court lacked jurisdiction, we grant the petition and quash the access order.

In 1990, in the circuit court...

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