Senate Bill sb2442

    Florida Senate - 2002                                  SB 2442

    By Senator Campbell





    33-1538-02

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to offenses against public

  3         employees and others; amending s. 790.054,

  4         F.S.; prohibiting the use of certain

  5         self-defense weapons and devices against

  6         community service officers, police aides,

  7         citizen patrol program members, and traffic

  8         officers; amending s. 843.025, F.S.;

  9         prohibiting depriving a community service

10         officer, police aide, citizen patrol program

11         member, or traffic officer of a radio or other

12         means of communication; providing penalties;

13         providing an effective date.

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15  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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17         Section 1.  Section 790.054, Florida Statutes, is

18  amended to read:

19         790.054  Prohibited use of self-defense weapon or

20  device against law enforcement officer or another;

21  penalties.--A person who knowingly and willfully uses a

22  self-defense chemical spray or a nonlethal stun gun or other

23  nonlethal electric weapon or device or remote stun gun against

24  a law enforcement officer, or a community service officer,

25  police aide, member of a citizen patrol program, or traffic

26  officer who is employed by or volunteering for a county or

27  municipal law enforcement agency or is volunteering for a

28  school board, engaged in the performance of his or her duties

29  commits a felony of the third degree, punishable as provided

30  in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.

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    Florida Senate - 2002                                  SB 2442
    33-1538-02




  1         Section 2.  Section 843.025, Florida Statutes, is

  2  amended to read:

  3         843.025  Depriving officer or another of means of

  4  protection or communication.--It is unlawful for any person to

  5  deprive a law enforcement officer as defined in s. 943.10(1),

  6  a correctional officer as defined in s. 943.10(2), or a

  7  correctional probation officer as defined in s. 943.10(3) of

  8  her or his weapon or radio or to otherwise deprive the officer

  9  of the means to defend herself or himself or summon

10  assistance. It is unlawful for any person to deprive a

11  community service officer, police aide, member of a citizen

12  patrol program, or traffic officer who is employed by or

13  volunteering for a county or municipal law enforcement agency

14  or is volunteering for a school board of his or her radio or

15  to otherwise deprive him or her of the means to summon

16  assistance. Any person who violates this section is guilty of

17  a felony of the third degree, punishable as provided in s.

18  775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.

19         Section 3.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2002.

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22                          SENATE SUMMARY

23    Extends the specific prohibitions against using a
      self-defense weapon against a law enforcement officer or
24    depriving a law enforcement officer of a radio or means
      of communications to community service officers, police
25    aides, traffic officers, and members of citizen patrols.

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