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Written or electronic threats to kill, do bodily injury, or conduct a mass shooting or an act of terrorismFla. Stat. § 836.10

Criminal sentencing outcomes across 61 Florida counties, 2,506 charges recorded, 2018–2026.

What Fla. Stat. § 836.10 covers

Chapter 836 of the Florida Statutes — Defamation; Libel; Threatening Letters and Similar Offenses. 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 39 counties with enough records to publish a rate, the median is 32.4%.

CountyCharges recordedState prison, per 100 charges recorded
Alachua County4542.2%
Baker County1631.3%
Bay County6432.8%
Broward County8721.8%
Charlotte County1323.1%
Citrus County2458.3%
Clay County2236.4%
Collier County2040.0%
Columbia County1154.5%
Duval County13840.6%
Escambia County5018.0%
Hernando County2330.4%
Highlands County2119.0%
Hillsborough County21124.6%
Indian River County296.9%
Lake County2611.5%
Lee County5324.5%
Leon County6322.2%
Manatee County2623.1%
Marion County10236.3%
Martin County2536.0%
Miami-Dade County18134.8%
Monroe County1118.2%
Okaloosa County3324.2%
Orange County9422.3%
Osceola County3228.1%
Palm Beach County19623.5%
Pasco County11235.7%
Pinellas County16034.4%
Polk County9726.8%
Putnam County2334.8%
Santa Rosa County1533.3%
Sarasota County4334.9%
Seminole County2924.1%
St. Johns County3732.4%
St. Lucie County7536.0%
Sumter County2454.2%
Volusia County18644.6%
Walton County1435.7%

Counties with too few records to publish a sentencing rate (22)

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. § 836.10 at the source →

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