1. Make personal contact with the check writer; if you are unsuccessful, send a courtesy notice. The check writer has 15 days to respond and remit payment.
   

2. If you do not hear from the check writer or receive payment, simply contact the Bad Check Restitution Program at 1-866-398-0763 for a bad check crime report form.

3. Fill out the crime report form, attach originals (you retain photocopies) of all checks
   and notification documents, such as return receipts and bank notices and mail to:

Eighteeth Judicial Circuit State Attorney
Bad Check Restitution Program
P.O. Box 320460
Cocoa Beach, FL 32932-0460
(postal address only)

If you do not receive restitution within 60 days, contact the
Eighteenth Judicial Circuit State Attorney Bad Check Restitution Program.