Staff departures reported after the 2024 election affected senior leadership and specialized prosecution work in the Hillsborough State Attorney's Office.
A Dec. 18, 2024, Tampa Bay Times report said the departures included a chief assistant and described turnover in the special victims unit.
Cases Left In Limbo
The same report said wrongful convictions remained in limbo and that turnover afflicted the special victims unit. Those were the consequences the Times put on the record in December 2024. The report, as reflected here, did not spell out how long the vacancies lasted or what became of the individual cases.
Circuit 13 caseload
According to the Florida Office of the State Courts Administrator, Circuit 13 recorded 12,317 circuit criminal filings and 10,862 dispositions in FY 2024-25, an 88.2% clearance rate. These court statistics provide workload context but do not establish the effect of the prosecutor’s staff departures.
