"The purpose of the Criminal Justice Professionalism, Standards & Training Services Division is to promote and facilitate the competency and professional conduct of criminal justice officers through a partnership with criminal justice agencies in providing entry-level and in-service officer training, criminal justice leadership development and executive training, and maintaining disciplinary procedures.

The Professionalism, Standards & Training Services Division provides staff support to the Criminal Justice Standards & Training Commission, the Florida Medical Examiners Commission and the Commission for Florida Law Enforcement Accreditation."

FDLE - Criminal Justice Professionalism, Standards & Training Services Divisionwebsite

CJSTC In a Nutshell

The JSO and the Criminal Justice Standards & Training Commission

CJSTC certifies every law enforcement and corrections officer in Florida. Its stated standard: officers must be "CJSTC Overviewwebsite." That mandate doesn't end at certification - CJSTC also has the authority to take it away.

When an officer's own agency sustains a serious violation - a felony, or a failure to maintain good moral character under Fla. Stat. § 943.13(4)/(7) - the agency is required to report it to CJSTC. CJSTC can then bring an administrative complaint and, after a hearing, impose discipline ranging from a written reprimand to outright revocation of the officer's certification. See FDLE CJSTC - Steps of the Professional Compliance (Disciplinary) Processwebsite below for how a case moves from incident to final order.

Total Cases
6,578
JSO Cases
134
JSO Certifications Revoked
57
Case Volume Rank vs. FL Agencies
#5 of 321

From incident to discipline: how a case moves through CJSTC

Every case in this dataset went through the same statutory process before CJSTC took action. Here's what happens, in order, from FDLE CJSTC - Steps of the Professional Compliance (Disciplinary) Processwebsite.

  1. An incident occurs

    An officer's conduct, on or off duty, raises a potential violation of the state's certification standards for law enforcement and corrections officers.

  2. Agency investigation

    The officer's own agency investigates and reaches one of four dispositions: sustained, not sustained, exonerated, or unfounded.

  3. Reported to CJSTC

    If the complaint is sustained, the agency has to submit its findings and supporting documentation to CJSTC. Anything short of "sustained" generally stops here and never reaches CJSTC at all - one reason this dataset undercounts total misconduct allegations.

  4. Probable cause determination

    A Probable Cause Determination Panel reviews the agency's findings and decides whether the officer violated Fla. Stat. § 943.13(4) or (7) - a felony, a serious misdemeanor involving perjury or a false statement, or a failure to maintain good moral character.

  5. Administrative complaint

    If probable cause is found, CJSTC issues an administrative complaint - the official charging document naming the specific allegations and the statutes and rules they fall under.

  6. Election of rights

    The officer has 21 days to choose: a formal hearing (if the facts are disputed), an informal hearing (if they aren't), or voluntary relinquishment of certification. No response is treated as a default.

  7. Hearing

    A formal hearing goes before an Administrative Law Judge, who hears evidence from both sides and issues a recommended order back to the Commission. An informal hearing lets the officer present mitigating factors directly to the Commission, with no facts in dispute.

  8. Final order

    CJSTC issues a final order: a written reprimand, probation or suspension of up to two years, or revocation of certification. That final order is the outcome recorded for each case on this page. All Commission actions are final.

How we obtained this data

Every case on this page comes from a discipline case report published by FDLE - Criminal Justice Professionalism, Standards & Training Services Divisionwebsite, the state commission responsible for disciplining certified Florida law enforcement and corrections officers. You can view ReportdatasetPublished Aug 9, 2026Accessed Aug 9, 2026 we imported.

  • We downloaded that report directly from CJSTC and imported its records into our own database. We did not alter the substance of what CJSTC reported.
  • We did light structural cleanup so the records could be charted - splitting entries that listed multiple offenses or agencies into separate rows, for example.
  • We did not independently verify each case against court records, and we did not reinterpret CJSTC's own findings. The figures here are CJSTC's disciplinary data, presented as CJSTC published it.

A few limitations:

  • These figures only reflect cases where CJSTC pursued formal discipline. Complaints that were investigated but never reached the Commission aren't captured here - the numbers below understate the full volume of misconduct allegations.
  • On first glance, the rank and share figures above make JSO's slice of statewide cases look small - but those are raw case counts, not adjusted for agency size, and JSO is one of the largest agencies in the state.
  • The charts comparing JSO to "Rest of Florida" avoid that problem: each group's bars are a share of its own case mix, so the comparison isn't skewed by agency size.

Ratio of JSO CJSTC Records

What share of every CJSTC discipline case statewide involves a JSO officer, out of 6,578 total cases across Florida. JSO's slice looks small here because the dataset spans 321 agencies - see the case volume rank stat above for how JSO compares directly to its peers.

Data obtained at CJSTC Website

JSO vs. Rest of Florida: Discipline Outcomes

For every JSO case and every case from the rest of Florida, the percentage that ended in each outcome - from revocation of certification (most severe) down to a dismissed complaint. Both bars are a share of each group's own total, so the comparison stays fair even though JSO and the rest of the state have very different numbers of cases.

Data obtained at CJSTC Website - % of each group's own cases

JSO vs. Rest of Florida: Offense Categories

The kinds of misconduct behind JSO's CJSTC cases, compared to the mix seen across the rest of Florida, each as a percentage of that group's own cases. A category noticeably higher for JSO than statewide may point to an area where JSO's disciplinary pattern diverges from the norm. Categories are derived by matching keywords in each case's free-text offense description, so a case listing multiple charges is grouped under the first matching category.

Data obtained at CJSTC Website - % of each group's own cases

JSO Cases & Share of Statewide Total by Year

JSO's CJSTC case count each year (solid line, left axis) plotted against JSO's share of that year's statewide case total (dashed line, right axis). A rising case count paired with a flat or falling share would suggest cases were rising statewide generally, not specifically at JSO. The most recent year likely undercounts, since final orders can take time to be entered.

Data obtained at CJSTC Website