District Court of Appeal of Florida March 5, 2008, Nos. 4D07-1061, 4D07-3228 (E.A.R. v. State)

GROSS, J.

We write to address a narrow issue—whether section 985.433(7)(b), Florida Statutes (2007),1 requires a trial court *611to specifically identify the “characteristics of the restrictiveness level imposed vis-a-vis the needs of the juvenile,” when the trial court sentences a juvenile to a different restrictiveness level than that recommended by the Department of Juvenile Justice (“DJJ”).