Public Records/Arrest Booking Photographs; Providing an exemption from public records requirements for arrest booking photographs; providing for the release of arrest booking photographs under specified circumstances; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.
Fees/Batterers’ Intervention Programs; Reviving, reenacting, and amending a provision relating to certification and monitoring of batterers’ intervention programs and fees; requiring the Department of Children and Families to assess and collect an annual certification fee from batterers’ intervention programs; requiring certain persons attending certified batterers’ intervention programs to pay a fee for each program attended; requiring certification and user fees to be deposited in the Domestic Violence Trust Fund for a specified purpose, etc.
Municipal Law Enforcement Agencies; Specifying that discussions between the chief executive officer of a municipality or a representative thereof and the municipality’s governing body regarding disciplinary measures for municipal law enforcement officers which are proposed for inclusion in a collective bargaining agreement are subject to public meetings requirements; requiring the governing body of a municipality to solicit comments and input from the general public and relevant advocacy or special interest groups in the review and development of officer disciplinary procedures in collective bargaining agreements, etc.
Batterers’ Intervention Programs; Requiring the Department of Children and Families to certify and monitor certain batterers’ intervention programs; requiring batterers’ intervention programs to satisfy specified requirements for certification by the department; prohibiting programs from admitting batterers who have not paid the user fee, with an exception; requiring the department to annually provide a list of certified programs and to immediately notify the courts if it suspends a program’s certification, etc.
Juror Service; Revising the rate of compensation for jurors; prohibiting the use of peremptory challenges to strike prospective jurors in criminal jury trials that commence on or after a specified date; requesting the Florida Supreme Court to amend Rule 1.431(d), Florida Rules of Civil Procedure, to prohibit the use of peremptory challenges in jury selection for civil jury trials, etc.
Legalization of Recreational Marijuana; Exempting certain activities involving marijuana from use and possession offenses; authorizing persons age 21 and over to engage in certain activities involving personal use of marijuana in limited amounts; providing for personal cultivation; specifying possession limits; providing for issuance of early approval adult use dispensing organization licenses; providing cultivation center requirements and prohibitions; requiring certain tests to be performed before manufacturing or natural processing of any cannabis or cannabis-infused product or packaging cannabis for sale to a dispensary; providing that marijuana establishments that sell food containing marijuana are considered food establishments for the purposes of specified regulations; removing cannabis from the schedule of controlled substances; providing for sentence review for certain offenders, etc.
Misconduct by Law Enforcement Officers; Requiring law enforcement agencies to collect and report specified data to the Department of Law Enforcement concerning the use of force incidents and other interactions with the public; requiring law enforcement agencies to establish early intervention systems for officer misconduct; requiring the Department of Law Enforcement to establish a program that standardizes definitions of, training related to, and consequences for misconduct by law enforcement officers; requiring revocation of the certification of a law enforcement officer in certain circumstances involving the unlawful use of force, etc.
Expunction of Criminal History Records Relating to Certain Cannabis Offenses; Requiring a petitioner to obtain a certificate of eligibility from the Department of Law Enforcement; providing application requirements and contents of a certificate of eligibility for expunction; requiring the department to issue a certificate of eligibility for expunction if a person meets specified criteria; providing court procedures for expungement, etc.
Murder; Revising the elements that constitute murder in the first degree and murder in the second degree; revising the elements that constitute felony murder, for murder in the second degree; deleting provisions relating to felony murder, for murder in the third degree; authorizing a person convicted under certain murder provisions to file a petition with the sentencing court to have his or her murder conviction vacated or to be resentenced, as applicable, on or after a specified date, etc.
Early Intervention Systems for Law Enforcement Officers; Providing legislative findings and intent; requiring every law enforcement agency to create an early intervention system to track and identify potentially damaging patterns of behavior by law enforcement officers, etc.
