ProhibitionsFla. Stat. § 489.531
Criminal sentencing outcomes across 30 Florida counties, 505 charges recorded, 2018–2026.
What Fla. Stat. § 489.531 covers
Chapter 489 of the Florida Statutes — Contracting. A single statute can span several offences at different degrees, and the figures on this page pool every degree. No single rate here is the rate for any one degree.
How often did this charge end in state prison, by county?
Sorted alphabetically, never worst-first. Every rate below has one denominator and it is stated in the column heading: all charges recorded, not convictions. A rate computed on convictions would be higher, and mixing the two is why the same statute can appear to have different “worst counties” on different pages. Across the 10 counties with enough records to publish a rate, the median is 0.0%.
| County | Charges recorded | State prison, per 100 charges recorded |
|---|---|---|
| Alachua County | 30 | 0.0% |
| Broward County | 17 | 0.0% |
| Citrus County | 10 | 0.0% |
| Hillsborough County | 68 | 0.0% |
| Manatee County | 67 | 0.0% |
| Marion County | 14 | 0.0% |
| Pasco County | 72 | 2.8% |
| Pinellas County | 134 | 0.7% |
| Sarasota County | 22 | 0.0% |
| St. Johns County | 14 | 0.0% |
Counties with too few records to publish a sentencing rate (20)
Fewer than 10 records each. The count is published; the rate is not.
- Bay County 9 cases
- Clay County 3 cases
- Columbia County 1 case
- Desoto County 1 case
- Duval County 7 cases
- Escambia County 4 cases
- Gulf County 1 case
- Hernando County 3 cases
- Lake County 1 case
- Levy County 1 case
- Monroe County 1 case
- Okaloosa County 1 case
- Okeechobee County 1 case
- Palm Beach County 1 case
- Putnam County 1 case
- Santa Rosa County 5 cases
- Seminole County 3 cases
- Sumter County 2 cases
- Volusia County 9 cases
- Walton County 2 cases
Source, window and the n≥10 floor
Florida Clerk of Courts public records, under Fla. Stat. § 900.05. Window: 2018–2026. A sentencing rate is published for a county only where that county has at least 10 records for this charge. Percentages are weighted by case count. Where the categories on a county page sum to less than 100%, the remainder is a sentence not recorded in the public extract, and that county page names it.
The statute
Past sentencing patterns do not predict future outcomes in any individual case. CaseParity does not recommend litigation strategy, plea decisions, sentencing positions, or appellate arguments. Sentencing outcomes reflect many factors not captured in structured public records.
CaseParity is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice. Documented past outcomes, reported in aggregate; not a prediction about any individual case. CaseParity never looks up individual cases.