Keeping the momentum going—respond back soon 

Every time an email on a particular topic is sent to a state legislator, a ping is recorded on the subject matter.  We want to have many pings recorded.

We need approximately 50-plus people to send a short email to all 160 Florida legislators through the 2026 legislative session.  Each person would be given a specific week to send out their emails.  The idea is to have all legislators receive emails every week from now through the first week of March 2026, so the pings continue to grow in number.

The 160 email addresses have been compiled so that you can copy/paste them individually into your “To” line.  They will be sent to you later.

This campaign is to focus on two bills that will be proposed for the 2026 session:  One would include language to allow courts, probation, registration, FDLE, and others in the criminal justice system to be allowed to consider medically documented neurocognitive diseases (dementia).  The second bill would provide a process for people on the registry, who have a medically documented need for long-term nursing home/assisted living care, to be removed from the registry.  

We have two legislators who are interested in the bill allowing dementia to be considered by the courts, and we have possible sponsors for the bill on making it achievable for nursing homes to be available to all Florida citizens.  These two bills have not been written yet, but we will be working on that this summer and fall.

Our goal is to change the narrative as well as emotionally illustrate the human impact of these bills.  You would write five or six sentences briefly expressing your concerns.  Then you will pick one of the two bills to ask the legislators to support once the bill is filed. 

This project has already begun with 20 volunteers so far.  We need 32 additional volunteers.

Please respond to [email protected] if you are willing to participate in this campaign with us, and you will be contacted to find the best week that works for you.  If there is a month from now through February 2026 that you would prefer to send your emails, please let us know.  We can also assist in writing your short email if you need help.  

 

Suggestions for the email you will be sending to our legislators

 

• If you have had an experience where you or someone you know could not enter a nursing home, assisted living facility, or rehab facility, please share this in your email.  Or if you know of someone in the criminal justice system who suffered from dementia, but the courts were not allowed to consider it, please share the negative consequences that occurred.

OR

 

• If none of the above applies to you, you could share with the legislators that people on the sex offender registry are being denied access to these healthcare facilities.  Some talking points you could use (only choose the ones that you prefer to discuss with our legislators):

• Most people on the registry are now law-abiding citizens.

• You are only asking for the same rights that a released murderer has.

• With nursing homes, including the VA nursing homes, not allowing anyone on the registry to reside in their facility, it is inhumane to allow helpless people to live alone trying to take care of themselves.  How will they get medical help?  In many cases, they will be living in their own excrements.  This is inhumane and should not be occurring in the United States.

• Nursing homes are turning away people because of the dot on the nursing home that will show up on FDLE ‘s map.

• There are people on the registry in a vegetative state, whose offense was decades ago, but the facilities will not take them in because of the dot that will show up on the FDLE Sex Offender map.

• Florida needs to do what Georgia does:  allow people on the registry to petition for removal once they need long-term care and remove residency restrictions for them.

• Or anything else that you might prefer to say.

 

AFTER WRITING YOUR EMAIL, PLEASE SELECT ONE OF THE TWO BILLS BELOW THAT WE WILL BE PROPOSING NEXT SESSION AND COPY/PASTE IT UNDER YOUR PERSONAL EMAIL.  

 

I am requesting your support for the following proposed bill for the 2026 session:

Neurocognitive Diseases Bill that would allow for dementia to be considered in all aspects of the Florida criminal justice system, thereby preventing the inhumane treatment of our cognitively unable population.

OR

I am requesting your support for the following proposed bill for the 2026 session:

Nursing Home Care Bill that addresses the need for long-term care facilities to care for all patients without nursing home loss of business caused by the sex offender registry.

 

Respectfully,

Your Name