Florida Statute 943.02 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XLVII
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE AND CORRECTIONS

Chapter 943
DEPARTMENT OF LAW ENFORCEMENT

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943.02 Definitions.—For the purpose of this chapter:

(1) “Department” means the Department of Law Enforcement.

(2) “Executive director” means the executive director of the Department of Law Enforcement.

History.—s. 2, ch. 74-386; s. 2, ch. 78-347.

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Cases Citing Statute 943.02

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Jackson v. State, 18 So. 3d 1016 (Fla. 2009).

Cited 41 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 34 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 547, 2009 Fla. LEXIS 1578, 2009 WL 3029668

...act required an oral communication to be "uttered by a person exhibiting an expectation that such communication is not subject to interception under circumstances justifying such expectation. " Smith, 641 So.2d at 852 (some emphasis added) (quoting § 943.02(2), Fla....

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DiGuilio v. State, 451 So. 2d 487 (Fla. 5th DCA 1984).

Cited 9 times | Published | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal

...Certainly, no reasonable expectation of privacy exists while one is detained in the rear seat of a police vehicle. Neither is the recording of the conversation proscribed by the provisions of Chapter 943, Florida Statutes (1981), as an oral communication, because section 943.02(1) defines oral communications within the statute to include only those which are uttered under circumstances justifying an expectation of privacy....

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