ForgeryFla. Stat. § 831.01
Criminal sentencing outcomes across 59 Florida counties, 917 charges recorded, 2018–2026.
What Fla. Stat. § 831.01 covers
Chapter 831 of the Florida Statutes — Forgery and Counterfeiting. 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 29 counties with enough records to publish a rate, the median is 20.0%.
| County | Charges recorded | State prison, per 100 charges recorded |
|---|---|---|
| Alachua County | 15 | 40.0% |
| Bay County | 42 | 50.0% |
| Escambia County | 100 | 0.0% |
| Gadsden County | 12 | 0.0% |
| Hendry County | 11 | 54.5% |
| Highlands County | 37 | 27.0% |
| Hillsborough County | 67 | 11.9% |
| Indian River County | 15 | 6.7% |
| Lake County | 12 | 25.0% |
| Lee County | 19 | 0.0% |
| Leon County | 45 | 15.6% |
| Manatee County | 12 | 8.3% |
| Marion County | 25 | 16.0% |
| Martin County | 10 | 30.0% |
| Miami-Dade County | 125 | 13.6% |
| Monroe County | 23 | 43.5% |
| Nassau County | 13 | 7.7% |
| Okaloosa County | 15 | 13.3% |
| Palm Beach County | 13 | 15.4% |
| Pasco County | 22 | 31.8% |
| Pinellas County | 15 | 46.7% |
| Polk County | 29 | 41.4% |
| Santa Rosa County | 12 | 16.7% |
| Sarasota County | 20 | 25.0% |
| Seminole County | 16 | 12.5% |
| St. Lucie County | 12 | 50.0% |
| Suwannee County | 14 | 28.6% |
| Volusia County | 40 | 42.5% |
| Wakulla County | 10 | 20.0% |
Counties with too few records to publish a sentencing rate (30)
Fewer than 10 records each. The count is published; the rate is not.
- Baker County 1 case
- Bradford County 2 cases
- Broward County 4 cases
- Calhoun County 1 case
- Charlotte County 5 cases
- Citrus County 9 cases
- Clay County 2 cases
- Columbia County 7 cases
- Desoto County 5 cases
- Dixie County 2 cases
- Duval County 7 cases
- Franklin County 7 cases
- Gilchrist County 8 cases
- Hardee County 7 cases
- Hernando County 2 cases
- Holmes County 2 cases
- Jackson County 1 case
- Lafayette County 2 cases
- Levy County 1 case
- Liberty County 5 cases
- Madison County 2 cases
- Okeechobee County 3 cases
- Orange County 5 cases
- Osceola County 4 cases
- Putnam County 2 cases
- St. Johns County 4 cases
- Sumter County 7 cases
- Taylor County 6 cases
- Union County 1 case
- 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
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