Officer Lookup · records glossary
What the terms in an officer report mean.
A plain-language key to the agencies, certification actions, and impeachment concepts you'll see in a Florida officer records report — so you can read a row and know exactly what it is, and what it is not.
Glossary
- FDLE
- The Florida Department of Law Enforcement — the state agency that maintains Florida's statewide law-enforcement officer certification records.
- CJSTC
- The Criminal Justice Standards and Training Commission — the body within FDLE that certifies Florida officers and acts on that certification through discipline.
- Certification discipline
- An action taken against an officer's state certification (as opposed to an employer's internal personnel discipline). In the Florida results these are FDLE/CJSTC certification-discipline rows.
- Revocation
- The officer's certification is stripped — the strongest certification action, removing the officer's ability to serve as a certified officer in the state.
- Suspension
- The certification is suspended for a period — a temporary action rather than a permanent removal.
- Relinquishment (voluntary surrender)
- The officer surrenders the certification rather than face the board's disciplinary proceeding. It resolves the matter without a contested finding, and the surrender itself is the record.
- Incident ledger
- Source-backed use-of-force and misconduct incident rows drawn from the Florida incident dataset, each citing the underlying public record — a separate layer from certification discipline.
- Identity confidence
- The tool's score for how strongly a record matches the name you searched. Multi-agency name hits are flagged so you verify identity before relying on any row.
- Source appendix
- The list that links every row in a report to the underlying public-record source it was drawn from, so you know what to pull or demand directly.
- Brady material
- Exculpatory evidence — favorable to the defense — that the prosecution has a duty to disclose. Officer-credibility records can bear on this duty. (General legal concept, not legal advice.)
- Giglio material
- Impeachment information bearing on the credibility of a government witness, including a testifying officer — for example a sustained untruthfulness finding. (General legal concept, not legal advice.)
- Impeachment (of a witness)
- Challenging a witness's credibility on cross-examination — for instance with a record reflecting dishonesty or a sustained misconduct finding that bears on truthfulness.
General reference for reading public-record officer data — not legal advice. The official record and the controlling law govern; verify identity and record fit against your case discovery before relying on any row.
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