From an incident report written by a deputy in the Okeechobee County Sheriff’s Office, in Okeechobee, Florida. The office occasionally responds to requests from parents seeking oversight from law enforcement to ensure that the corporal punishment of their children is legal.

On December 29, 2014, at approximately 1916 hours, while assigned to road patrol, I, deputy sheriff Joseph Hall, was dispatched to SW 18th Street. Upon arrival I made contact with Dale Garcia. Dale advised me that when he returned home from Walmart he found that his two twelve-year-old daughters had gotten into an argument while he was gone. At…