Sen. Randolph Bracy

Administration of Justice; Revising the rate of compensation for jurors; requiring law enforcement agencies that employ law enforcement officers being investigated for use of force by a citizen review board to include a member of the citizen review board as part of the law enforcement agency’s investigative team; requiring the county commission or other governing body of each county to establish by a specified date a citizen review board with the authority and ability to independently investigate law enforcement agencies within that county, etc.

Body Camera Recordings by Law Enforcement Officers; Defining the term “critical incident”; requiring a law enforcement agency to disclose a body camera recording, or a portion thereof, which depicts a critical incident as soon as the recording ceases to be active criminal intelligence information or active criminal investigative information, etc.

Taxes and Fees/Cultivation of Cannabis; Specifying fees under ch. 566, F.S., for various applications, renewals, and other purposes; providing contributions for early approval adult use dispensing organization licenses; providing that the Department of Business and Professional Regulation may revise fees after a specified date; providing for certain mandatory contributions for obtaining early approval adult use dispensing organization licenses; levying a tax on the cultivation of cannabis; levying a tax on cannabis purchases, etc.

Law Enforcement Officer Use of Force Deaths; Requiring the state attorney of a judicial circuit in which a law enforcement officer use of force death occurs to request that a state attorney from another judicial circuit review the case and make a certain written and detailed recommendation; requiring a state attorney who receives such a request to provide a specified notice to the requesting state attorney within a certain timeframe, etc.

Hate Crimes; Designating as a hate crime the false reporting of the commission of a crime by a person in whole or in part because of certain beliefs or perceptions; providing criminal penalties; authorizing a court to impose a program or training directed at hate crime prevention and education, etc.

Prosecuting Children as Adults; Increasing the age of a child at which a state attorney may, or is required to, request a court to transfer the child to adult court for criminal prosecution; increasing the age of a child at which a state attorney may file an information against the child for criminal prosecution as an adult, etc.

Decennial Census; Requiring the Legislature to adjust federal decennial census figures to include prisoners in the geographic areas where they last resided before incarceration rather than the facility where they resided at the time of the federal census; requiring the Department of Corrections to provide a report to the Legislature by a specified date listing certain information relating to prisoners in state correctional institutions and federal facilities; requiring the Secretary of Corrections to request certain agencies to provide such information in a report to the department, etc.

Investigations of Officer-involved Deaths; Requiring that each law enforcement agency have a written policy regarding the investigation of officer-involved deaths; authorizing internal investigations under certain circumstances; authorizing compensation for certain investigations to be determined in a manner consistent with mutual aid agreements; requiring such investigators to publicly release the completed report, redacted as required by law, if the state attorney determines that there is no basis to prosecute the law enforcement officer involved, etc.

Citizen Review Boards; Requiring the county commission or other governing body of each county to establish a citizen review board with the authority and ability to independently investigate law enforcement agencies within that county, etc.

Prohibited Discrimination; Citing this act as the “Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair Act,” or “CROWN Act”; providing that it is unlawful for sponsors under the Florida Housing Finance Corporation Act to discriminate against any person or family because of traits historically associated with race, etc.