Florida disorderly conduct penalties, straight from the statute.

Disorderly conduct is a single second-degree misdemeanor (Fla. Stat. § 877.03)

Fla. Stat. § 877.03 defines breach of the peace and disorderly conduct as one offense and classifies it as a misdemeanor of the second degree. Because there is only one degree, the statutory ceiling is fixed by that classification, and the sentence in a given case sits at or below that maximum and turns on the conduct, the prior record, and the plea posture. The degree sets the ceiling through Fla. Stat. § 775.082 and Fla. Stat. § 775.083.

Offense and degree quoted from Fla. Stat. § 877.03 (Florida Legislature, Online Sunshine); the maximum fine follows from the offense degree under Fla. Stat. § 775.083, and the maximum jail term follows from Fla. Stat. § 775.082. The statute controls; confirm the current text and the specific facts before relying on any figure.

A broad statute, narrowed by the first amendment

Fla. Stat. § 877.03 reaches acts of a nature to corrupt the public morals, outrage the sense of public decency, or affect the peace and quiet of persons who may witness them, as well as brawling or fighting and other conduct constituting a breach of the peace or disorderly conduct. That language is broad, and disorderly conduct is one of the more commonly charged Florida offenses, which is precisely why its edges matter. Longstanding case law has narrowed the statute so that acts amounting only to protected speech cannot themselves be the basis of a conviction. Whether the particular words or expression alleged fall outside that protection, or instead constitute the brawling, fighting, or breach-of-the-peace conduct the statute reaches, is a fact-specific question read against the record and the controlling case law rather than assumed from the charge. This is stated as a general limiting principle, not as a specific holding; confirm the current case law before relying on it.

What the aggregate sentencing data shows

Read the figure below as descriptive, not predictive. It is a statewide rate across all charge types, not disorderly conduct alone, and is a floor over recorded sentences. These figures are not adjusted for offense severity, criminal history, plea posture, or case facts, they do not measure any prosecutor, court, or judge, and they are not a prediction of what any disorderly-conduct case will draw. Counties differ in case mix, so the figure reflects what and who is in the data.

The statute sets the exposure; the public records show how sentences actually landed. In the FDLE Criminal Justice Data Transparency Clerk-of-Court data, across 3,937,598 analyzed charge dispositions, 44% drew a recorded jail or prison sentence. That is a floor, not a true rate, because the confinement field is blank on many charges and is treated as non-incarceration. It spans every charge type, so it orients rather than predicts; the companion data study breaks the recorded incarceration rate and confinement length down by charge category and county.

The encounter and the account start with the officer

Whatever the statutory exposure, a disorderly conduct case often turns on the encounter and the officer's account of it, from what was actually said or done to whether the conduct crossed from protected expression into the statute's reach. Before the penalty conversation, the leverage is frequently in how the case was built. BenchRecon's Officer Lookup searches the involved officer's Florida FDLE/CJSTC certification-discipline and incident-ledger record, every row cited to the underlying public record, so the impeachment and credibility angles surface before you draft the motion.

Reference

For the Florida criminal statutes, source-linked to the official text, see the Florida criminal statute reference. For how sentences actually landed across the state, see the Florida sentencing-outcomes data study. For the full set of Florida charge references, start at the Florida criminal-defense references hub.