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Discharging firearm in public or on residential propertyFla. Stat. § 790.15

Criminal sentencing outcomes across 66 Florida counties, 4,044 charges recorded, 2018–2026.

What Fla. Stat. § 790.15 covers

Chapter 790 of the Florida Statutes — Weapons and Firearms. 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 45 counties with enough records to publish a rate, the median is 11.9%.

CountyCharges recordedState prison, per 100 charges recorded
Alachua County6021.7%
Bay County1218.3%
Bradford County1323.1%
Broward County1105.5%
Charlotte County2619.2%
Citrus County2825.0%
Clay County2924.1%
Collier County3324.2%
Columbia County2910.3%
Desoto County180.0%
Duval County2757.3%
Escambia County1742.9%
Hardee County280.0%
Hendry County195.3%
Hernando County3330.3%
Highlands County397.7%
Hillsborough County5878.5%
Indian River County329.4%
Jackson County1520.0%
Lake County4910.2%
Lee County7111.3%
Leon County7316.4%
Levy County1631.3%
Manatee County7116.9%
Marion County9412.8%
Martin County306.7%
Miami-Dade County29536.3%
Nassau County1216.7%
Okaloosa County442.3%
Okeechobee County333.0%
Orange County14112.8%
Osceola County5211.5%
Palm Beach County29812.4%
Pasco County11910.1%
Pinellas County1074.7%
Polk County1798.9%
Putnam County2722.2%
Santa Rosa County3312.1%
Sarasota County6711.9%
Seminole County7111.3%
St. Johns County4020.0%
St. Lucie County7316.4%
Sumter County2711.1%
Volusia County23116.9%
Walton County2227.3%

Counties with too few records to publish a sentencing rate (21)

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. § 790.15 at the source →

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