§ 166.0494, Fla. Stat. · Part I. GENERAL PROVISIONS
Chiefs of police; termination.
Text — 2026 Florida Statutes
(1) A municipality may not terminate a chief of police without providing the chief of police written notice of his or her termination.
(2) After providing a chief of police written notice of his or her termination, a municipality must allow the chief of police to appear at the next regularly scheduled public meeting of the governing body of the municipality and provide a full and complete response to his or her termination at the meeting.
(3) An employment contract between a municipality and a chief of police may not waive or modify the requirements of this section or include a nondisclosure clause that prohibits a chief of police from responding to his or her termination as authorized by this section.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
s. 1, ch. 2023-282.
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