Florida police employment records

Florida’s certification file covers 304,069 officers who appear in its records between 1929-04-09 and 2024-07-01, across 730 agencies, in 643,829 employment records.

2024-07-01: coverage through
1929-04-09: earliest record
304,069: officers
730: agencies
643,829: employment records
latest separation date: coverage basis

The coverage date is computed from the file itself — the basis is the latest separation date. The publisher states April 2023. The file holds records newer than the date its publisher states. Source: NPI published bucket. Retrieved 2026-08-29.

Florida also publishes a separate discipline file: 3,161 incidents through 2022-12-22. It is a different file with a different coverage date, and it is never merged into the employment counts above.

Reporting

The reporting on Florida’s police records

Yale Law Journal — Grunwald (Duke) & Rappaport (Chicago) · April 2020

The Wandering Officer

Thirty years, 98,000 officers, nearly 500 Florida agencies. In an average year about 1,100 previously fired officers — roughly 3% of the state’s force — were working in Florida law enforcement. They were likelier than rookies and than never-fired veterans alike to be fired again or draw a moral-character complaint.

Built on the same Florida employment data the lookup below runs on.

What this data does not say

It never asserts that anyone is currently employed. The supported statement is that a person is listed as employed at an agency as of 2024-07-01, with no separation recorded.
Records are state-scoped. Florida certification numbers are issued by its own board, so someone certified in two states appears in two files and is never merged into one history.
Measured across the 26 published files as of 2026-08-29, 69,683 officer records are open at two or more agencies at once — a genuine dual appointment, or a separation the board never recorded. Counted per file, never across states. The data cannot tell the two apart, so neither is asserted.

Where this comes from, and how to correct it

This page presents what NPI published bucket made available, as it was released. Some files reach us directly from the reporting agency and some through intermediaries that obtained them under public-records law; either way the content is the agency’s, not ours. CaseParity does not investigate, verify, correct or vouch for any individual record, and takes no responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of what a reporting agency published.

A correction to the record itself is made by the certifying agency that issued it — that is the only route that changes it at the source, and therefore everywhere it appears, here included. If what this page shows does not match that agency’s file, write to hello@caseparity.com and say which record and which field. No response time is promised, and nothing here substitutes for going to the agency.

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