False reports to law enforcement authoritiesFla. Stat. § 837.05
Criminal sentencing outcomes across 62 Florida counties, 2,002 charges recorded, 2018–2026.
What Fla. Stat. § 837.05 covers
Chapter 837 of the Florida Statutes — Perjury. 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 0.0%.
| County | Charges recorded | State prison, per 100 charges recorded |
|---|---|---|
| Alachua County | 14 | 14.3% |
| Bay County | 121 | 0.0% |
| Broward County | 39 | 0.0% |
| Charlotte County | 21 | 0.0% |
| Citrus County | 11 | 0.0% |
| Clay County | 24 | 0.0% |
| Collier County | 19 | 0.0% |
| Columbia County | 16 | 0.0% |
| Duval County | 100 | 0.0% |
| Escambia County | 67 | 1.5% |
| Hendry County | 11 | 9.1% |
| Hernando County | 29 | 0.0% |
| Highlands County | 10 | 0.0% |
| Hillsborough County | 122 | 0.8% |
| Holmes County | 11 | 0.0% |
| Indian River County | 22 | 4.5% |
| Lake County | 36 | 0.0% |
| Lee County | 32 | 0.0% |
| Leon County | 29 | 0.0% |
| Levy County | 10 | 0.0% |
| Manatee County | 19 | 0.0% |
| Marion County | 59 | 0.0% |
| Martin County | 19 | 0.0% |
| Miami-Dade County | 107 | 8.4% |
| Monroe County | 22 | 4.5% |
| Okaloosa County | 27 | 0.0% |
| Okeechobee County | 15 | 0.0% |
| Orange County | 41 | 0.0% |
| Osceola County | 23 | 0.0% |
| Palm Beach County | 103 | 2.9% |
| Pasco County | 201 | 1.0% |
| Pinellas County | 123 | 0.0% |
| Polk County | 134 | 0.0% |
| Santa Rosa County | 48 | 2.1% |
| Sarasota County | 22 | 0.0% |
| Seminole County | 35 | 2.9% |
| St. Johns County | 19 | 0.0% |
| St. Lucie County | 42 | 0.0% |
| Volusia County | 100 | 0.0% |
Counties with too few records to publish a sentencing rate (23)
Fewer than 10 records each. The count is published; the rate is not.
- Baker County 6 cases
- Bradford County 4 cases
- Calhoun County 1 case
- Desoto County 6 cases
- Dixie County 8 cases
- Flagler County 2 cases
- Franklin County 5 cases
- Gadsden County 5 cases
- Gilchrist County 3 cases
- Glades County 5 cases
- Gulf County 6 cases
- Hamilton County 1 case
- Hardee County 1 case
- Jackson County 5 cases
- Jefferson County 4 cases
- Madison County 1 case
- Putnam County 7 cases
- Sumter County 3 cases
- Suwannee County 4 cases
- Taylor County 8 cases
- Wakulla County 1 case
- Walton County 6 cases
- Washington County 7 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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