STATE OF" FLORIDA

TWENTIETH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT

CHARL.OTTE:, COL.LlER, GLADES, HENDRY AND LEE COUNTIES

G. KEITH CARY TELEPHONE

CHIEf JUOGE
(239) 3:35-2156

February I, 2010

CamilleCavallo
2338 Immokalee Road
Naples, Florida 34110

Re: Chief Judge's List ofCertified Process Servers

Dear Ms. Cavallo:

I am in receipt of your letter dated January 22, 2010. It is my understanding that your
cel1ification expired on December 31,2009. Even though you did initiate the renewal of your
certification, you did not sign a new oath and did not pick up your eard prior to expiration of
your 2009 certification. lt appears that your first proactive attempt to pick up your card and sign
your oath was either on Thursday, January 21, 2010 or Friday, January 22,2010, by which time
your file and application had already been returned to my office by theChair of the Twentieth
JudicialCircuit Cel1ified Process Server Review Board to be treated as an abandoned
application. If you had not been actively serving process subsequent to December 31,2009,I
would not have any objection to reinstating your renewal application and adding you to my list
ofCel1ified Process Servers for 2010. However, you have admitted that you continued to serve
process subsequent to December 31, 2009, using your expired card, and it is my understanding
that you have, in fact, served process on as many as 300 occasions using your expired card and
having not signed your new oath.

Even though you state in your letter that you were "unaware that I was to pick up my Process
Server Identification Card and what location before the end of the year," I find thi s statement to
be disingenuous. You were contacted by theChair of the Board via telephone on December 12,
2009, and you were advised that your card was rcady to be picked up and given the address to
where you should go to pick up your card and sign your oath. I cannot fathom the nature of any
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"conflict in schedule" between December It' and January 21 that would have prevented you
from exercising all due diligence necessary so as to ensure that you had signed your oath and
picked up your new card prior to serving process beyond December 31".

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LEE COUNTY .JUSTICE CENTER, 1700 MONROE STREET, fORT MYERS, F"t.ORIDA 33901
Based on your letter, I do not know whether you appreciate the full impact of your neglect or
how you have compromised each case in which you served process after December 31".
Ultimately, it is your clients who will suffer any repercussions of your faulty service, both from a
financial and legal standpoint. Needless to say, I demand that all Certified Process Servers
included on my list demonstrate an ability to act professionally and responsibly in the
perfonnance of their duties. You have been on the list of Certified Process Servers in previous
years and you are familiar with the procedures of obtaining a new card and signing a new oath
each year. By not picking up your new card and signing your new oath prior to the expiration of
your old card and oath, coupled with the fact that you continued to serve process utilizing your
expired card for three weeks into the new year, you have demonstrated to me a lack of both
professionalism and responsibility. Accordingly, at this time, I am denying your request to be
added to the Twentieth Judicial Circuit's List of Certified Process Servers for 2010, and J am
reVOking your appointment effective January 22, 2010, 11 :59 p.m. This denial and revocation is
without prejudice for you to raise this matter before the Twentieth Judicial Circuit Civil Process
Server Review Board and to seek a recommendation from the Board in your favor.

Please note that being excluded from the list of Certified Process Servers does not prohibit a
person from being appointed by individual motion and order to serve process in any civil action
in accordance with Fla. R. Civ. P. 1.070(b).

Respectfully,

cc: Ernest Averill, Chair, Review Board

Robert Tardif, Vice-Chair, Review Board
Lynette Young, Member, Review Board
Lt. Andy Lewis, Member, Review Board
Sgt. Chris Webb, Member, Review Board