FL S2522

Establishes definitions for biological evidence, DNA, governmental entities, and serious crimes (homicides, sexual battery, robbery, burglary, arson, and related felonies) in Florida Statutes Section 925.11.

Requires governmental entities to preserve physical evidence containing biological material for serious crimes either until the crime is solved or while a convicted individual remains incarcerated; allows disposal of oversized evidence after preserving portions likely to contain biological material for DNA testing.

Permits defendants to request written inventories of preserved biological evidence in serious crime cases and establishes procedures for postsentencing DNA testing petitions.

Creates an Eyewitness Identification Task Force with 10 members from law enforcement, prosecution, courts, universities, and defense organizations to develop guidelines for eyewitness identification procedures by October 1, 2011.

Directs the task force to recommend policies such as blind administrator procedures, specific witness instructions, use of multiple fillers in lineups, sequential presentation of lineup members, and audio/video recording of identification procedures; requires the Department of Law Enforcement to develop a training curriculum based on these guidelines by June 30, 2012.