Title: Executive Clemency

Summary: Requires records relating to clemency investigation of individual subject to judgment imposing death penalty be released to such individual, or his or her legal counsel, upon written request.

Full Text:
An act relating to executive clemency; amending s. 14.28, F.S.; requiring records relating to a clemency investigation of individual subject to a judgment imposing the death penalty be released to such individual, or his or her legal counsel, upon written request; providing an effective date. Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: Section 1. Section 14.28, Florida Statutes, is am ended to read: 14.28 Executive clemency.-All records developed or received by any state entity pursuant to a Board of Executive Clemency investigation are shall be confidential and exempt from the provisions of s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution. However, such records:(1) May be released upon the approval of the Governor. (2) Must be released to an individual subject to a judgment imposing the death penalty, or his or her legal counsel, upon such individual's written request for a copy of records related to his or her clemency investigation. Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.