Community:
A Crime Commission donation to Miami-Dade Chiefs of Police Association assisted in the providing of more than 200 book bags and school supplies to children experiencing homelessness and poverty in the Miami area.
Impeding, Threatening, or Harassing First Responders
Impeding, Threatening, or Harassing First Responders; Prohibiting a person, after receiving a warning not to approach from a first responder who is engaged in the lawful performance of a legal duty, from violating such warning and approaching or remaining within a specified distance of the first responder with specified intent, etc.
Effective Date: 1/1/2025
NEW LAWS TO BE AWARE OF IN 2025
Amends F.S. 316.2397 (Certain lights prohibited; exceptions) by reclassifying the offense of unlawfully
operating a motor vehicle displaying a red, red and white, or blue light from directly in front of the vehicle from a 1st degree
misdemeanor to a 3rd degree felony.
Amends F.S. 320.061 (Unlawful to alter motor vehicle registration certificates, license plates, temporary
license plates, mobile home stickers, or validation stickers or to obscure license plates; penalty) by
reclassifying the application or attachment of a substance, reflective matter, illuminated device, spray,
coating, covering, or other material onto or around a license plate which interferes with the legibility,
angular visibility, or delectability of any feature or detail of the license plate or interfering with the ability
to record any feature or detail of the license plate as 3rd degree felony. It should be noted that the altering
of a license plate by any other means is still a non-moving traffic infraction. Effective Date: 7/1/25
THE COMMISSION PROVIDED AN EMERGENCY GRANT TO FHP, TROOP E; HEADQUARTERS FOR URGENT REPAIRS NEEDED ON THEIR SALLY PORT.
MAJOR COLLADO ACKNOWLEDGED THE COMMISSIONS SUPPORT AND PARTNERSHIP WITH FHP.