Florida Statute 20.32 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title IV
EXECUTIVE BRANCH

Chapter 20
ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

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20.32 Florida Commission on Offender Review.—

(1) The Parole and Probation Commission, authorized by s. 8(c), Art. IV of the State Constitution, is continued and renamed the Florida Commission on Offender Review. The commission retains its powers, duties, and functions with respect to the granting and revoking of parole and shall exercise powers, duties, and functions relating to investigations of applications for clemency as directed by the Governor and Cabinet.

(2) All powers, duties, and functions relating to the appointment of the Florida Commission on Offender Review as provided in s. 947.02 shall be exercised and performed by the Governor and Cabinet.

(3) The commission may require any employee of the commission to give a bond for the faithful performance of his or her duties. The commission may determine the amount of the bond and must approve the bond. In determining the amount of the bond, the commission may consider the amount of money or property likely to be in custody of the officer or employee at any one time. The premiums for the bonds must be paid out of the funds of the commission.

History.—s. 33, ch. 69-106; s. 33, ch. 83-131; s. 36, ch. 86-183; s. 7, ch. 88-122; ss. 15, 16, ch. 89-531; s. 20, ch. 90-337; s. 320, ch. 92-279; s. 55, ch. 92-326; s. 1, ch. 93-2; s. 16, ch. 96-422; s. 5, ch. 98-34; s. 4, ch. 2014-191; s. 24, ch. 2025-81.

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Cases Citing Statute 20.32

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Adlington v. Spooner, 743 So. 2d 1195 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1999).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1999 Fla. App. LEXIS 14583, 1999 WL 993152

Commission. Art. IV, § 8(c), Fla. Const. (1997). Section 20.32(1), Florida Statutes (1997), provides: (1) The

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Harvin v. State, 690 So. 2d 652 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1997).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1997 Fla. App. LEXIS 2360, 1997 WL 109242

AFFIRMED. ERVIN, DAVIS and BENTON, JJ., concur. . § 20.32, Fla. Stat. (1989).

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Gray v. State, 791 So. 2d 560 (Fla. 5th DCA 2001).

Published | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal | 2001 WL 871385

...ssion shall be created by law and that the commission shall have the power to grant parole and control or conditional release to persons under sentences of crime. The Parole Commission is an agency created within the executive branch, see Fla. Stat. § 20.32 (1988), and the constitution gives it, not the courts, the power to make parole determinations....

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Rollins v. Florida Parole Comm'n, 170 So. 3d 7 (Fla. 2d DCA 2015).

Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal | 2015 WL 1650245

...Rollins had willfully violated four substantial conditions of his conditional release and deemed it to be in the best interest of society and Mr. Rollins 1 Florida's Parole and Probation Commission is now known as the Florida Commission on Offender Review. § 20.32, Fla....

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