Florida Statute 491.0111 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XXXII
REGULATION OF PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS

Chapter 491
CLINICAL, COUNSELING, AND PSYCHOTHERAPY SERVICES

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491.0111 Sexual misconduct.—Sexual misconduct by any person licensed or certified under this chapter, in the practice of her or his profession, is prohibited. Sexual misconduct shall be defined by rule.

History.—ss. 15, 19, ch. 87-252; ss. 19, 20, ch. 90-263; s. 4, ch. 91-429; s. 510, ch. 97-103.

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Gerard Kruse v. State of Florida, Dep't of Health, etc., 270 So. 3d 475 (Fla. 1st DCA 2019).

Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal

...Section 491.009(1)(k), Florida Statutes (2016-2017), subjects a clinical social worker to discipline, including restriction, for committing any act upon a patient or client which would constitute sexual battery or which would constitute sexual misconduct as defined pursuant to Section 491.0111, Florida Statutes (2016-2017). 3. Section 491.0111, Florida Statutes (2015-2017) provides that sexual misconduct shall be defined by board rule. 4....

...4 either genital or anal; cunnilingus; fellatio; or the touching by either the psychotherapist or the client or the other’s breasts, genital areas, buttocks, or thighs, whether clothed or unclothed. 5. Mr. Kruse violated Section 491.0111, Florida Statutes (2016-2017), and Rule 64B4-10.002(1), Florida Administrative Code, by engaging, attempting to engage, or offering to engage, Patient L.P....

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