Florida legal term
Record in Florida Criminal Law
Current through 2026 Florida legislative session
In Florida criminal law, “Record” is a term defined by statute rather than by its everyday meaning. Its statutory definition — quoted verbatim below — controls how the term is applied throughout the Florida criminal code.
What does “Record” mean in Florida criminal law?
“Record” means any and all documents, writings, computer memory, and microfilm, and any other form in which facts are memorialized, irrespective of whether such record is an official record, public record, or admissible record or is merely a copy thereof. (Fla. Stat. § 943.045)
Statutes defining or using this term
Charges using this term
- Agriculture warrants
- Airbag Antitheft Act
- Appointment of tax collectors to accept applications for a concealed weapon or firearm license; fees; penalties
- Cellular telephone counterfeiting offenses
- Criminal use of a public record or public records information; providing false information; penalties
- Digital voyeurism
- Direct observation, videotaping, or visual surveillance of customers in merchant’s dressing room, etc., prohibited; penalties
- DNA database
- Dogs and cats transported or offered for sale; health requirements; consumer guarantee
- False entries in books of business entity
- Falsifying records
- Forgery
Related terms in the same statutes
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