Bill Text: FL S0502 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Special Investigators [SPSC]

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2010-05-27 - Approved by Governor; Chapter No. 2010-119 [S0502 Detail]

Download: Florida-2010-S0502-Introduced.html

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Florida Senate - 2010                                     SB 502 
 
By Senator Aronberg 
27-00449-10                                            2010502__ 
1                        A bill to be entitled 
2         An act relating to special organized crime 
3         investigators; amending s. 27.251, F.S.; specifying 
4         matters that may be investigated by special organized 
5         crime investigators; providing an effective date. 
6 
7  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
8 
9         Section 1. Section 27.251, Florida Statutes, is amended to 
10  read: 
11         27.251 Special organized crime investigators.—The state 
12  attorney of each judicial circuit is authorized to employ any 
13  municipal or county police officer or sheriff’s deputy on a 
14  full-time basis as an investigator for the state attorney’s 
15  office with full powers of arrest throughout the judicial 
16  circuit provided such investigator serves on a special task 
17  force to investigate matters involving organized crime, 
18  including gang violence, or other criminal activity the 
19  detection of which might benefit from an interagency task force 
20  and, provided further, that the salary of such municipal or 
21  county police officer or sheriff’s deputy shall be paid by the 
22  city, county, or sheriff by which the investigator is 
23  principally employed, and with the consent of the county, 
24  sheriff, or municipality. The arrest powers granted in this 
25  section may herein shall be exercised only in the furtherance of 
26  the conduct of the business of the special task force to which 
27  such municipal or county police officer or sheriff’s deputy is 
28  assigned by the said state attorney. 
29         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010.