Battery of facility employee by throwing, tossing, or expelling certain fluids or materialsFla. Stat. § 784.078
Criminal sentencing outcomes across 42 Florida counties, 235 charges recorded, 2018–2026.
What Fla. Stat. § 784.078 covers
Chapter 784 of the Florida Statutes — Assault; Battery; Culpable Negligence. 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 7 counties with enough records to publish a rate, the median is 33.3%.
| County | Charges recorded | State prison, per 100 charges recorded |
|---|---|---|
| Bradford County | 15 | 100.0% |
| Escambia County | 19 | 0.0% |
| Hillsborough County | 15 | 33.3% |
| Okaloosa County | 15 | 26.7% |
| Pasco County | 11 | 9.1% |
| Santa Rosa County | 10 | 90.0% |
| Seminole County | 19 | 47.4% |
Counties with too few records to publish a sentencing rate (35)
Fewer than 10 records each. The count is published; the rate is not.
- Baker County 2 cases
- Bay County 3 cases
- Broward County 2 cases
- Calhoun County 1 case
- Charlotte County 8 cases
- Citrus County 7 cases
- Collier County 2 cases
- Desoto County 7 cases
- Gadsden County 1 case
- Gulf County 1 case
- Hamilton County 1 case
- Holmes County 1 case
- Indian River County 1 case
- Lake County 3 cases
- Lee County 4 cases
- Leon County 4 cases
- Manatee County 2 cases
- Marion County 7 cases
- Miami-Dade County 8 cases
- Nassau County 1 case
- Okeechobee County 9 cases
- Osceola County 8 cases
- Palm Beach County 1 case
- Pinellas County 3 cases
- Polk County 7 cases
- Putnam County 1 case
- Sarasota County 4 cases
- St. Johns County 4 cases
- St. Lucie County 5 cases
- Sumter County 4 cases
- Taylor County 1 case
- Union County 7 cases
- Volusia County 6 cases
- Walton County 4 cases
- Washington County 1 case
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
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