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The 2024 Florida Statutes (including 2025 Special Session C)

Title XLVI
CRIMES
Chapter 836
DEFAMATION; LIBEL; THREATENING LETTERS AND SIMILAR OFFENSES
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F.S. 836.10
836.10 Written or electronic threats to kill, do bodily injury, or conduct a mass shooting or an act of terrorism; punishment; exemption from liability.
(1) As used in this section, the term “electronic record” means any record created, modified, archived, received, or distributed electronically which contains any combination of text, graphics, video, audio, or pictorial represented in digital form, but does not include a telephone call.
(2) It is unlawful for any person to send, post, or transmit, or procure the sending, posting, or transmission of, a writing or other record, including an electronic record, in any manner in which it may be viewed by another person, when in such writing or record the person makes a threat to:
(a) Kill or to do bodily harm to another person; or
(b) Conduct a mass shooting or an act of terrorism.

A person who violates this subsection commits a felony of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.

(3) This section does not impose liability on a provider of an interactive computer service, communications services as defined in s. 202.11, a commercial mobile service, or an information service, including, but not limited to, an Internet service provider or a hosting service provider, if it provides the transmission, storage, or caching of electronic communications or messages of others or provides another related telecommunications service, commercial mobile radio service, or information service for use by another person who violates this section. This exemption from liability is consistent with and in addition to any liability exemption provided under 47 U.S.C. s. 230.
History.s. 1, ch. 6503, 1913; RGS 5094; CGL 7196; s. 995, ch. 71-136; s. 1, ch. 2010-51; s. 17, ch. 2018-3; s. 1, ch. 2018-128; s. 2, ch. 2021-220.

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Amendments to 836.10


Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 836.10
Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

S836.10 - INTIMIDATION - RENUMBERED. SEE REC # 8851 - F: S
S836.10 - HOMICIDE-WILFUL KILL - ERROR - F: S
S836.10 - INTIMIDATION - RENUMBERED. SEE REC # 8852 - F: S
S836.10 - INTIMIDATION - RENUMBERED. SEE REC # 8853 - F: S
S836.10 - INTIMIDATION - RENUMBERED. SEE REC # 8854 - F: S
S836.10 1 - INTIMIDATION - RENUMBERED. SEE REC # 9471 - F: S
S836.10 1 - INTIMIDATION - RENUMBERED. SEE REC # 9472 - F: S
S836.10 1 - INTIMIDATION - REMOVED - F: S
S836.10 1 - INTIMIDATION - REMOVED - F: S
S836.10 2a - INTIMIDATION - WRITTEN/ELEC THREAT TO KILL BODILY HARM ANOTHR - F: S
S836.10 2b - INTIMIDATION - WRITTEN/ELEC THREAT MASS SHOOTNG/TERRORISM ACT - F: S



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