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
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As far as trolls, vigilantes and criminals AND smoking guns…there was a time when no one even mentioned statutory rap, or sax n organer. Same year I started voluntarily going in front of some judge, in some courthouse, Megan’s law was passed by Clinton in NJ. making even consensual sax talked about in the same light with the worst of the worst. To say I know why everything played out way it did is an understatement. For instance, it says u only need to be arrested, not convicted in the statutes in order not to be removed from the registray. Well, I did go in front of a judge to be removed..an attorney asked if I’d been convicted of anything since release, I said “yea, but conviction supposedly don’t matter, it’s fact I was arrested.” Attorney said “no, it’s convicted.” I said “what?” Come to find out, there have been people arrested and convicted who have been removed from registry, but I wasn’t aware to persuade some judge i should not ne on there.
Why not push for a bill that if documented that you are not a threat to society, to be able to get off the registry?
How we wish we could, but that would be a lawsuit that is too big for us to win at the current time. Also, our state legislature would never allow it with the current makeup of our lawmakers. Even if we were successful, DeSantis would veto it. We are going for the low hanging fruit first, in hopes that any successes we have will help us chip away at the bigger issue: getting people off the registry who are not sexually re-offending.
Sex offender is always a thtreat…I have neighbor who is locked up second time.
@PK
Not everyone is the same. One person may re-offend 10 times or more, and many made a mistake in their past and will never offend again. My crime is nearing 40 years ago, and I never had an offense before or after that. In fact I have not even been pulled over by law enforcement but once and that was in 1985 and just got a warning for going 5 miles over the speed limit.
You saying all of us are always a threat does not make it so. If that were true, we would ALL still be in prison. But, it is a free country so believe what you want. Coming on here to harass us just means you are leaving some other group of people you hate, alone.
I dont hate anybody but people who take advantage of kids. Worse of worse..
Nobidy is harrasing YOU people just expressing their feelings towards predetors. So deal with it!!
YAWN!
@Marlon
No it isn’t but you would expect at least to have medical concerns addressed. Even if they do not care about us, they needed us alive to keep the money flowing in as the more prisoners that are alive, the more money the state gets from the Feds. It is supposed to be punishment, not a death sentence (Unless you were sentenced to death).
Please post the list of 160 reps’ email addresses here.
Please keep checking here. Currently I am sending them to people who are signing up to participate. Let me check with our IT people about posting them at our site. Thank you.
https://floridaactioncommittee.org/legislative-committee/
Both Rosters are on there.
I have been told that the contact info for the 160 Florida Legislators has been posted on our Legislative page.
Is there any court cases going on now in Florida, I always see and read things about Michigan and Missouri, but not much about Florida. How do you go about a class action suit concerning Registry Retroactive from a charge in 1992. Or how SORNA is punitive, My boyfriend already went to court to get off the registry and it was denied. No arrest, no tickets, and he’s been sober for 33 years. He is a law-abiding citizen. He was also in the Army National guard for 13 years. (Prior). None of this matters. We are very discouraged over the denial. And how much the registry has changed over the years. What he did was wrong, No disputing that! But to spend the rest of your life on the registry, In my opinion, People should have second chances. If there is something I can do, Please any advise you can give. Thank you.
In the Federal Southern District of Florida, Does v Glass (fka Ex Post Facto I) is proceeding to court. The attorneys for the case are preparing to file amended complaints to reflect changes since the case was first filed.
@FAC #12
Thanks for that, I was going to ask about any updates on the Does case so thank you for bringing us up to date.
FAC Contributor #12
I’ve watched snails move faster then this Does v Glass case. It’s been dragged on so long people feel like it’s a waste with it costing more more more like all they want to do is suck all the money they can out of us to fight these laws for years they made up in weeks. Yep, Bubble Brain hit me with it will cost me hundreds of thousands to fight this. I can’t believe we are still fighting Ex Post Facto 30 years later. I thought it was secured with the Third Circuit’s retroactive Federal ruling not seeing what Zimmer actually did to hide the punishment until years later. Any state who uses H.R. 2137 (Florida) to enforce a full public registry is punishing nearly half of it’s registry with a hidden public shaming punishment. That is not a debate that is a FACT I uncovered because of who I am. I am the proof or evidence of what he did. Have the attorneys contact me, I’ll give them the firepower to break Glass. But I’m not looking to just open up a wound, I’m looking to get their juggler once and for all with the US Supreme Court overturning Smith v Doe seeing it IS an extension of punishment. RBG was right, I just wish she was alive to see it challenged.
We assure you the team handling Does v Glass are more than competent o handle the case. We realize it has been a long process, but federal litigation is a long process. Keep in mind the case has gone to the 11th circuit (where we won) and came back, so that accounts for much of the time.
For reference, Smith v Doe was originally filed in 1999 in the district court. In 2001, the 9th circuit reversed. Oral arguments before the Supreme Court were heard in 2002 and the decision came out in March of 2003. That also took a long time and wasn’t kicked back from the circuit court of appeals to the district (as ours was).
The attorneys for the case are public record and if you have the smoking gun to win the case for them, you are free to make contact.
I did a Google search an have not found the Attorney’s name for contact can you provide this to me? If you can not put it in public you can always email me with their contact information.
Hi Connie
As I’m sure you have read some of my posts an I have made a suggestion to FAC about a class action suit for people like your boyfriend as more retroactive registrants are moving to Florida. They refuse to honor our retroactive Civil Judgements from other states using H.R. 2137 as their Federal foundation for a full public notification registry. There is one now Does v Glass but to me that is like putting a little Band Aid on an amputation. Were bled out and die before it gets into a court for a ruling. I’m looking for any additional retroactive registrants out of New Jersey who are a Level 1 who FDLE put on the public registry. There was 39 of us and could be more after May 6th, 1996. A Tier Level 2 or 3 is no good as it is not a punishment, only a Tier Level 1 is an extension of punishment under the Ex Post Facto and Double Jeopardy clauses of the U.S. Constitution to make it public record. I am not one of these Does in this case but I am an original Megans Law John Doe Ex Post Facto challenger out of New Jersey who is going to challenge the SCOTUS ruling Smith v Doe with proof that Justice Souter and others suppressed evidence to get Alaska’s registry passed as constitutional.
I am fully disabled and have been refused treatment in many facilities In the real world and in prison. I am to the point that if my health doesn’t improve, I may end up back in prison. I can tell you from experience, I came within 99% chance of dying in prison over being refused treatment. It took a call to my parents to threaten them with a lawyer to get them to finally give me the minimal care to survive.
The food was so bad in there that I am surprised any of us left alive. They had a vegetable garden on the prison grounds and almost none of the items were properly washed and whenever we ate potatoes, there was so much sand on them that I eventually got kidney stones, leading to my liver to fail.
I also had many medications I had to take on a daily basis before going to prison but the doctors inside the prison told me they did not provide those medications. Only by God’s grace did I survive. I thought if I died it would be from being stabbed by another inmate, but it was the staff’s unconcern for our well-being that almost killed me, and probably others.
Oh well, prison aint exacrly 4 Season’s Hotel