Policy Text
DEFINITIONS:
DATING VIOLENCE - Violence between individuals who have or have had a continuing
and significant relationship of a romantic or intimate nature. The existence of such a
relationship will be determined based on the consideration of the following factors: a
dating relationship must have existed within the past six months; the nature of the
relationship must have been characterized by the expectation of affection or sexual
involvement between the parties; and the frequency and type of interaction between the
persons involved in the relationship must have included that persons have been
involved over time and on a continuous basis during the course of the relationship. The
term does not include violence in a casual acquaintanceship or violence between
individuals who only have engaged in ordinary fraternization in a business or social
context - FS 784.046 (d).
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE - Any assault, aggravated assault, battery, aggravated battery,
sexual assault, sexual battery, stalking, aggravated stalking, kidnapping, false
imprisonment, or any criminal offense resulting in physical injury or death of one family
or household member by another family or household member - FS 741.28(2).
FAMILY OR HOUSEHOLD MEMBER - Spouses, former spouses, persons related by
blood or marriage, persons who are presently residing together as if a family or who
have resided together in the past as if a family, and persons who are parents of a child
in common regardless of whether they have been married. With the exception of
persons who have a child in common, the family or household member must be
currently residing or have in the past resided together in the same single dwelling unit -
FS 741.28(3).
PROCEDURE: