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Selling, giving, or serving alcoholic beverages to person under age 21Fla. Stat. § 562.11

Criminal sentencing outcomes across 62 Florida counties, 2,806 charges recorded, 2018–2026.

What Fla. Stat. § 562.11 covers

Chapter 562 of the Florida Statutes — Beverage Law: Enforcement. 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 39 counties with enough records to publish a rate, the median is 0.0%.

CountyCharges recordedState prison, per 100 charges recorded
Alachua County320.0%
Bay County1540.0%
Broward County300.0%
Charlotte County310.0%
Citrus County220.0%
Clay County210.0%
Collier County770.0%
Columbia County150.0%
Duval County1310.0%
Escambia County530.0%
Hendry County180.0%
Hernando County100.0%
Hillsborough County2670.0%
Indian River County370.0%
Lake County600.0%
Lee County570.0%
Leon County1270.0%
Manatee County1140.0%
Marion County130.0%
Martin County160.0%
Miami-Dade County350.0%
Monroe County280.0%
Okaloosa County550.0%
Okeechobee County210.0%
Orange County540.0%
Osceola County170.0%
Palm Beach County3130.0%
Pasco County560.0%
Pinellas County1500.0%
Polk County1460.0%
Putnam County110.0%
Santa Rosa County320.0%
Sarasota County740.0%
Seminole County1440.0%
St. Johns County530.0%
St. Lucie County130.0%
Sumter County230.0%
Volusia County1400.0%
Walton County520.0%

Counties with too few records to publish a sentencing rate (23)

Fewer than 10 records each. The count is published; the rate is not.

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

Read Fla. Stat. § 562.11 at the source →

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