The Evidence Navigator

Photographs

A photograph offered to show a condition, scene, or object — the most common exhibit in civil cases.

Surveillance video

Fixed-camera footage from a business, residence, or public system — powerful when preserved, litigated hard when it was not.

Body camera and dash camera footage

Agency-worn or vehicle-mounted recordings — usually obtained through public-records requests, with exemptions to navigate.

Audio recordings and calls

Recorded conversations and voicemails — where Florida's consent law comes first, before any evidence question.

Text messages

The modern admission machine — and the evidence type courts scrutinize hardest for authorship and completeness.

Email

Business and personal correspondence with headers, threads, and attachments — each piece its own evidence question.

Social media posts and messages

Posts, profiles, and direct messages — screenshots are easy; authorship and completeness are the fight.

Websites and web pages

Page content as it existed at a moment in time — the moment is usually the contested part.

AI-generated and AI-enhanced material

Content a model produced or transformed — no Florida statute names it yet, and this page says so plainly; the existing gates still govern.

Business records

Records kept in the regular course of business — the workhorse hearsay exception, with a certification route that can retire the live custodian.

Medical records

Hospital and practitioner records — two access statutes govern who may obtain them and how, before any courtroom question.

Public records

Government documents and data — Florida's access chapter is the acquisition route, and certified copies carry their own proof advantages.

Police reports

Incident and offense reports — publicly obtainable, but their courtroom use is narrower than their availability.

Crash reports

The traffic-crash report is its own statutory creature — with a privilege written into the reporting statute itself.

911 calls and dispatch records

Emergency calls and CAD logs — time-stamped, agency-held, and layered with speakers.

Bank and financial records

Statements, ledgers, and transaction data — business records with a statutory production route of their own.

Cell phone and carrier records

Call detail, subscriber, and cell-site records — carrier-held business records that arrive by lawful process.

Government electronic copies

Records pulled from official websites and portals — convenient, and expressly NOT self-authenticating by the access statute.

GPS and vehicle telematics

Location trails, speed data, and event recordings from devices and vehicles — machine output with real foundation needs.

Maps and satellite imagery

Web-mapping and satellite views — the one evidence type with its own judicial-notice statute.

Scientific test results

Lab results and measurements — expert territory the moment interpretation begins.

Radar and laser speed measurements

Device-measured speed in civil infraction hearings — the two device statutes carry the evidentiary conditions themselves.

Breath, blood, and urine testsrouted

Chemical-test evidence in impaired-driving cases — criminal-lane territory this platform does not work.

Contracts and signed writings

The agreement itself — where Article X began, and where electronic signatures now live comfortably.

Wills and trusts

Instruments with their own execution formalities — and, for lost wills, their own probate rule.

Affidavits and declarations

Sworn written statements — summary-judgment fuel, verified by oath or the statutory written declaration.

Summary charts and calculations

The voluminous-records shortcut — statutory, but only on the section's own conditions.

Certified convictions

Judgment records used for impeachment — the impeachment section sets the qualifying crimes; certification carries the proof.

Translated evidence and interpreted testimony

Foreign-language documents and testimony — accuracy is a foundation question with its own statute for interpreters.

Deposition testimony

Sworn testimony taken before trial — with its own use-at-trial rule and a former-testimony route in the hearsay sections.

Expert reports and opinions

Retained-expert work product — governed by the expert sections at trial and the discovery rules before it.

Physical objects

The thing itself — where custody, condition, and identity carry the foundation.

Demonstrative aids

Diagrams, models, and illustrations that explain testimony — aids to understanding, distinct from substantive evidence.