Prearrest Delinquency Citation

The Prearrest Delinquency Dashboard examines Florida's use of Prearrest Delinquency Citation for 1st time misdemeanants.

Overview

The Florida Department of Juvenile Justice's "electronic release" of data on Prearrest Delinquency Citation, the Prearrest Delinquency Citation Dashboard, examines Florida's use of Prearrest Delinquency Citation for 1st time misdemeanants. Click here to learn more about Prearrest Delinquency Citation.

In addition to statewide figures, the Dashboard makes it possible to access data broken down by judicial circuit, county level and law enforcement agency via an interactive web-based format. Data is presented in both tabular and graphic format, by offense type, race, age and sex. The Dashboard is updated monthly using data from the Juvenile Justice Information System (JJIS) and covers a “rolling” 12 month period. Please note that there is a one-month delay in reporting Prearrest Delinquency Citation data to ensure adequate time for data entry and data integrity reviews.

Getting Started

To get started with the Dashboard, click on the button below, which will open your browser to the website where the Dashboard is hosted.

View Interactive Prearrest Delinquency Citation Dashboard

For more information regarding the Prearrest Delinquency Citation Dashboard or the quarterly utilization reports, please email Sherry.Jackson@fldjj.gov.

For more information regarding prearrest delinquency citation in your area, please contact your local Chief Probation Officer.

Please direct all other inquiries regarding prearrest delinquency citation to delinquencycitation@fldjj.gov.

Additional Resources:

Prearrest Delinquency Citation Utilization Reports

Florida Statute § 985.126(5)(2024) requires the Department to “…provide a quarterly report to be published on its website and distributed to the Governor, President of the Senate, and Speaker of the House of Representatives listing the entities that use prearrest delinquency citations for less than 70 percent of first-time misdemeanor offenses.” The statute was updated for 2025 to raise the reporting threshold to 80%.

Statute permits local jurisdictions to exclude certain offense types. For the purposes of this reporting, however, the Department calculates the utilization measure based on § 985.12(2024) that allows all first-time misdemeanors, apart from firearm misdemeanors, to be issued a civil citation.