Call to Action:  Dire Nursing Home Situation

Since this past March, Florida Action Committee members have been emailing all 160 Florida legislators, asking them to consider filing the following two bills:

1. A Neurocognitive Impairment bill that would allow for dementia/brain injury that is medically documented to be considered in all aspects of the Florida criminal justice system, including probation and offender registrations, thereby preventing the inhumane treatment of our cognitively impaired and incurable population
2. Long-Term Care bill that addresses the need for long-term care facilities to care for all patients without concern for loss of business caused by the dot on the map from the sex offender registry.

There are legislators who are considering the need for bill #1, but it has been an uphill battle all the way.

Bill # 2 is the one where we now need the most help to enable people on the registry to be able to enter healthcare facilities when they need long-term healthcare.

Every time an email is received by a legislator, a ping is recorded for the topic of the email.  In the early stages of this email campaign, Tallahassee was receiving 160 pings per week under “need for people on the registry to be able to reside in these healthcare facilities.”

We now have weeks where two people are sending emails, making for 320 pings per week.  We want Tallahassee to hear us.  This email campaign will be running through February of 2026.

If you are willing to help us out by taking one week, instructions will be sent to you, along with the 160 legislators’ email addresses ready for you to copy/paste.  Talking points will be given to you in the instructions.  We will help you in any way that we can, including writing your email for you if necessary.

If you are already participating in our email campaign, you will not be able to take a second week since these emails need to come from different email addresses than those that have already been sent.  But if you know of someone with a different email address from yours, they would be eligible to participate in our second round of emails.

Please contact us at [email protected] if you can help.