Governor Ron DeSantis signed a wide-ranging package that includes providing bonuses to help recruit law enforcement officers from other states and giving county sheriffs more autonomy over their budgets.
The highest-profile part of the measure is $5,000 recruitment bonuses for law enforcement officers. With the law taking effect July 1, the state Department of Economic Opportunity is required to develop minimum eligibility requirements for the program.
“We want to incentivize really strong, high-quality people to pursue law enforcement as a vocation in the state of Florida,” DeSantis said during a bill-signing ceremony at the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office in Titusville. “That may mean that you leave Seattle or Chicago or some of these places and come to the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office. But it could also mean that you’re somebody that’s in Florida trying to determine what you want to do with your life.
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