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Florida Communications Fraud ActFla. Stat. § 817.034

Criminal sentencing outcomes across 63 Florida counties, 5,721 charges recorded, 2018–2026.

What Fla. Stat. § 817.034 covers

Chapter 817 of the Florida Statutes — Fraudulent Practices. 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 44 counties with enough records to publish a rate, the median is 22.0%.

CountyCharges recordedState prison, per 100 charges recorded
Alachua County25330.4%
Bay County14924.8%
Bradford County1154.5%
Broward County4429.5%
Charlotte County6021.7%
Citrus County3339.4%
Clay County3112.9%
Collier County2516.0%
Columbia County3912.8%
Desoto County2825.0%
Duval County21932.0%
Escambia County20110.0%
Hendry County2114.3%
Hernando County12223.0%
Highlands County6934.8%
Hillsborough County16427.4%
Indian River County8328.9%
Jackson County2634.6%
Lake County5111.8%
Lee County6111.5%
Leon County13321.1%
Levy County110.0%
Manatee County10030.0%
Marion County18217.0%
Martin County2429.2%
Miami-Dade County92011.5%
Monroe County3810.5%
Nassau County2128.6%
Okaloosa County776.5%
Orange County20310.8%
Osceola County9311.8%
Palm Beach County33520.6%
Pasco County19322.3%
Pinellas County56423.6%
Polk County11925.2%
Putnam County5322.6%
Santa Rosa County3112.9%
Sarasota County22020.5%
Seminole County6025.0%
St. Johns County5510.9%
St. Lucie County12828.1%
Sumter County355.7%
Volusia County33229.8%
Walton County3721.6%

Counties with too few records to publish a sentencing rate (19)

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. § 817.034 at the source →

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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.

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