https://floridaactioncommittee.org/legal-reform-for-people-with-intellectual-and-developmental-disabilities-lridd/ Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws Thu, 02 Jul 2020 20:55:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://floridaactioncommittee.org/legal-reform-for-people-with-intellectual-and-developmental-disabilities-lridd/comment-page-1/#comment-34455 Thu, 02 Jul 2020 20:55:16 +0000 https://floridaactioncommittee.org/?p=13511#comment-34455 This really hits home with me as I have a husband diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia. Occasional symptoms started surfacing before 2009. By 2016 when his offense occurred, the symptoms were frequent enough that I insisted that he come with me as I watched some grandchildren on the day the offense occurred. I had no idea that atrophy of his frontal/temporal lobes was occurring. Even with a brain MRI as proof of the atrophy, I was told that Florida courts do not see dementia. He was released this past February after serving 24 months in prison. I am the one doing the sex offender probation, and I am the one doing the sex offender registration.

]]> https://floridaactioncommittee.org/legal-reform-for-people-with-intellectual-and-developmental-disabilities-lridd/comment-page-1/#comment-34454 Thu, 02 Jul 2020 20:46:54 +0000 https://floridaactioncommittee.org/?p=13511#comment-34454 These innocuous people should be exempt and immune from being forced to register. What is the point in having them continue? Why has it taken this long for these concerns to be addressed?

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