Florida Statute 916.1065 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XLVII
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE AND CORRECTIONS

Chapter 916
MENTALLY ILL AND INTELLECTUALLY DISABLED DEFENDANTS

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916.1065 Confidentiality of forensic behavioral health evaluations.—

(1) A forensic behavioral health evaluation filed with the court under this chapter is confidential and exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution.

(2) As used in this section, the term “forensic behavioral health evaluation” means any record, including supporting documentation, derived from a competency, substance abuse, psychosexual, psychological, psychiatric, psychosocial, cognitive impairment, sanity, or other mental health evaluation of an individual.

(3) The exemption under subsection (1) applies to forensic behavioral health evaluations filed with a court before, on, or after July 1, 2014.

History.—s. 1, ch. 2014-67.

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In Re Amendments to Florida Rule of Jud. Admin. 2.420, 156 So. 3d 499 (Fla. 2015).

Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 40 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 29, 43 Media L. Rep. (BNA) 1199, 2015 Fla. LEXIS 113, 2015 WL 263902

...maintain as confidential. New subdivision (d)(1)(B)(xxi) adds “[f]orensic behavioral health evaluations under chapter 916,” Florida Statutes, to the list of automatically confidential information. See ch. 2014-67, §1, Laws of Fla. (creating § 916.1065, Fla....

...r exposure to tuberculosis. §§ 392.545, 392.65, Fla. Stat. (xx) Complete presentence investigation reports. Fla. R. Crim. P. 3.712. (xxi) Forensic behavioral health evaluations under Chapter 916. § 916.1065, Fla....