Navigation Bill to enhance penalties for threatening court personnel becomes law
Rep. Mike Gottlieb
Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed HB 67, a bill that makes it a crime to threaten a justice, judicial assistant, and other court personnel with death or “serious bodily injury.”
Rep. Mike Gottlieb, a South Florida Democrat and criminal defense lawyer, filed the measure at the behest of a Broward Sheriff’s detective who was unable to charge a man suspected of making hundreds of harassing phone calls to 17th Judicial Circuit judges.
