The Florida Corrections Accreditation program offers the opportunity to evaluate your agency's operations against standards developed by the Florida Corrections Accreditation Commission and the Association of Pretrial Professionals of Florida.  This process will allow administrative staff to remedy deficiencies and upgrade the quality of the agency's programs and services.  The benefits from such a process include:

• Standards reinforce the legislative intent of (FS 907.041)
• Increases judicial confidence in use of pretrial release program by providing standardized accurate information for release/detention decisions
• Increases uniformity within community supervision programs with reciprocal increase in public safety
• Increases interagency information sharing
• Increases integrity of criminal justice process and the agency's role
• Potential reduction in agency liability from lawsuits
• Allows for independent verification of business practices, which increases pretrial agency accountability
• Standards foster education resulting in improvements for all parties (defendant, agency, public)
• Accreditation program may foster pretrial program expansion due to increased recognition and credibility
• Ensures policies and procedures are documented in writing and defendable