Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill on Wednesday that gives courts the authority to require parents to use “neutral safe exchange locations” when sharing custody of their children.
Under this measure (HB 385), judges could order the use of such locations if “there is a danger or imminent threat to a party or the child during the exchange.”
The sites would have to be located in sheriff's office parking lots and meet requirements such as adequate lighting and continuous video surveillance. The parking lots would also have to be equipped with purple lights or signs “to clearly identify the designated area as a neutral safe exchange location.”
The law, which will take effect on July 1, has been dubbed the “Cassi-Carli Law,” after a Northwest Florida mother who disappeared after meeting with her child's father to make a timeshare swap. Carli was later found dead in Alabama.
The bill was passed during the legislative session that ended on March 8.
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