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Bay County: sentencing outcomes by charge
265,258 charge dispositions in Bay County, Florida, from public FDLE CJDT Clerk-of-Court data — 47.8% ended in incarceration. The table below breaks the county's highest-volume charge categories into incarceration rate, median confinement, adjudication-withheld rate, and diversion rate.
Aggregate analysis, data as of 2026-06-21. Reproducible from public records. No individual is identified; the source data has no judge identifier, so no claim is made about any individual judge.
Sentencing outcomes by charge category
The highest-volume charge categories in Bay County. “Median confinement (when incarcerated)” is the typical maximum term among only the charges in that category that resulted in custody — so where the incarceration rate is low, that median describes a small subset of the category's charges, not a typical outcome for the category as a whole. It reads “—” where fewer than 10 charges in that category were incarcerated, or where the category's incarceration rate is too low for the median to be representative.
| Charge category | Charges | Incarceration | Median confinement (when incarcerated) | Adj. withheld | Diversion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drug Abuse Prevention and Control | 57,358 | 48.8% | 364 d | 18.8% | 5.7% |
| Driver Licenses | 30,610 | 25.8% | 30 d | 33.6% | 4.8% |
| Theft, Robbery, and Related Crimes | 28,107 | 60.2% | 191 d | 14.5% | 4.3% |
| Violations Involving Checks and Drafts | 28,083 | 39.6% | 30 d | 30.6% | 0.1% |
| Assault; Battery; Culpable Negligence | 20,892 | 54.9% | 122 d | 12.6% | 7.2% |
| Burglary and Trespass | 16,327 | 70% | 176 d | 12.9% | 1.8% |
| State Uniform Traffic Control | 15,478 | 26.1% | 120 d | 11.9% | 2.4% |
| Obstructing Justice | 13,825 | 60.7% | 15 d | 16.5% | 3.2% |
| Beverage Law: Enforcement | 5,662 | 30.7% | 15 d | 40.7% | 23.3% |
| Miscellaneous Crimes | 5,355 | 59.3% | 6 d | 29.9% | 4.6% |
| Forgery and Counterfeiting | 4,412 | 71.2% | 2.5 yr | 7.9% | 1.1% |
| Motor Vehicle Licenses | 4,281 | 25.7% | 8 d | 41.1% | 3.7% |
Methodology & limitations
- Source: public Florida FDLE Criminal Justice Data Transparency (CJDT) Clerk-of-Court case data, grouped by county and FDLE statute-chapter grouping. Snapshot: 2026-06-21. Every figure is reproducible from a published script against the source data.
- Median confinement: median maximum confinement term, in days, among charges that resulted in custody; reported only where at least 10 such charges exist. Charge categories with fewer than 10 charges overall are omitted.
- No judge dimension: the source data contains no judge identifier. Nothing here describes how any individual judge sentences.
- What the data does NOT show: these figures describe recorded dispositions and do not control for criminal history, offense severity within a chapter, plea posture, or case facts. A category rate is a baseline, not a prediction for any specific case. This page reports aggregates only and identifies no individual.
Comparables for a specific Bay County charge
BenchRecon's Sentencing Comparables return the outcome distribution for a specific charge in a specific Florida county, with every figure cited to the underlying public record.