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Uttering forged bills, checks, drafts, or notesFla. Stat. § 831.09

Criminal sentencing outcomes across 64 Florida counties, 6,611 charges recorded, 2018–2026.

What Fla. Stat. § 831.09 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 49 counties with enough records to publish a rate, the median is 23.3%.

CountyCharges recordedState prison, per 100 charges recorded
Alachua County17731.1%
Bay County22937.6%
Bradford County1283.3%
Broward County9116.5%
Calhoun County1361.5%
Charlotte County6526.2%
Citrus County4961.2%
Clay County8914.6%
Collier County4613.0%
Columbia County4122.0%
Desoto County1618.7%
Duval County31020.6%
Escambia County68210.7%
Hendry County3228.1%
Hernando County18138.7%
Hillsborough County25526.3%
Indian River County20439.2%
Jackson County2020.0%
Lake County14310.5%
Lee County7416.2%
Leon County2213.6%
Levy County1010.0%
Manatee County34028.8%
Marion County34545.2%
Martin County7250.0%
Miami-Dade County5819.0%
Monroe County1182.5%
Nassau County659.2%
Okaloosa County1204.2%
Okeechobee County1942.1%
Orange County1619.3%
Osceola County5313.2%
Palm Beach County23513.6%
Pasco County42734.0%
Pinellas County43523.7%
Polk County4533.3%
Putnam County3458.8%
Santa Rosa County10323.3%
Sarasota County20318.2%
Seminole County748.1%
St. Johns County13742.3%
St. Lucie County12134.7%
Sumter County11511.3%
Suwannee County2050.0%
Taylor County250.0%
Union County1233.3%
Volusia County42535.8%
Wakulla County1136.4%
Walton County1910.5%

Counties with too few records to publish a sentencing rate (15)

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. § 831.09 at the source →

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