Policy Library
Review our proposals:
AI Token Cap & Trade • United States Dignity Dollars (USDD) • Universal Healthcare • LERN CORP
A behavioral filtration and message-intervention framework that uses AI to quietly contain risky digital communications among high-clearance or ideologically unstable individuals. Features real-time moderation, undetectable perception management, risk profiling, and a “containment bubble layer” so people can continue productive work while national security interests are protected.
A non-surveillant, person-centered AI framework that meets people where they already are—alone with a screen at 2 a.m.—during episodes of dissociation, confusion, or isolation. Provides decision support and tools that help restore agency moment by moment without tracking, coercion, or replacing human care. Built to complement, not replace, real relationships and clinical support.
Flips the traditional college model: instead of charging students to learn, LERN hires them as learners. Provides a monthly stipend plus daily cash rewards for completed modules, AI-augmented personalized instruction, and real job pathways. Funded by an AI Token Tax that captures value from AI systems. Goal: zero-debt education, upward mobility, and a nationwide talent pipeline that works for ordinary Americans.
Public-private partnership that uses AI-enabled single-stream sorting and accelerated biological processing to turn landfill organics into pipeline-quality natural gas and useful byproducts. Lowers energy costs for households and data centers, creates jobs, raises recycling rates, strengthens domestic energy supply, and gives local waste companies ownership stakes so incentives align.
Public-private pilot that uses robotic excavation and on-site production of interlocking compressed-earth blocks from desert soil to build a compact 30-unit underground/bermed affordable housing block near Las Vegas. Funded through HUD 30% income subsidies, it proves faster and far cheaper automated construction methods, generates technical and cost data for rapid scaling, delivers permanent supportive housing foundational to mental-health recovery, and invites partners such as Tesla and The Boring Company to accelerate the technology.
Proposes setting the default maximum commitment or conditional release term for most cases to the presumptive sentence under Oregon’s sentencing guidelines instead of the full statutory maximum. Courts retain authority to impose longer terms for substantial reasons. Aims for proportionality, reduced pressure on hospital beds, and fairer outcomes while preserving public safety tools for serious offenses.
Detailed plan for allowing residents to purchase and use managed Android phones and tablets enrolled in enterprise MDM. Cameras, app installs, USB, cellular data, and factory resets are locked down. Devices run only on a segregated hospital VLAN. Provides entertainment, education, secure video calls with family, and therapeutic apps while maintaining strong security controls. Devices revert to normal consumer status at discharge.
Creates a clear, data-driven, four-tier visitation system that moves from video/glass visits up through supervised contact, private cottage visits, and carefully approved off-grounds outings. Uses the existing Risk Review process so family connection becomes part of the treatment roadmap rather than a rare exception. Goal: smarter clinical decisions, safer oversight, and a saner, more normal environment that supports recovery and reintegration.
Argues that blanket technology bans in state hospitals create isolation, hinder recovery, and actually reduce useful data for risk assessment. Calls for a default of personalized, supervised device access with restrictions based only on individual clinical need. Frames digital connectivity as both a recovery tool and a public-safety asset.
Proposes tiered, clinically informed in-room computer access at the Secure Residential Treatment Facility level. Treats computers as cognitive prosthetics that support emotional wellness, continuity of thought, education, and recovery—not as privileges to be arbitrarily withheld. Baseline access with content controls for most residents; tighter limits only when individual behavior shows clear need.
Tech in Treatment
We believe safe, supervised digital access is not a luxury—it is a practical path to education, family connection, emotional regulation, and recovery. In the digital age, cutting people off from technology creates isolation, boredom, and lost opportunity while doing little to improve real safety.
Our work focuses on concrete, security-conscious solutions already proven in other settings:
Managed devices & network isolation. Residents can use affordable Android phones and tablets enrolled in enterprise mobility management. Cameras, unauthorized apps, cellular data, and factory resets are locked down. All traffic stays on a segregated hospital VLAN. At discharge the management profile is removed and the device becomes a normal personal phone again.
In-room computers as cognitive tools. At appropriate levels of care, in-room computers support continuity of thought, education, therapeutic resources, and healthy routines. Access is tiered and clinically informed rather than blanket-denied.
Meaningful family contact. A graduated visitation system—from secure video to supervised contact to carefully approved off-grounds outings—turns family connection into part of the treatment plan instead of a rare exception.
Crisis support that meets people where they are. Project LANTERN offers non-surveillant AI tools that can help someone regain footing during moments of isolation or dissociation without replacing human care or creating new surveillance.
Technology used wisely reduces behavioral incidents, strengthens coping skills, preserves dignity, and gives clinical teams better information—not less. We reject both reckless unrestricted access and the opposite extreme of total digital isolation. The middle path—secure, supervised, recovery-oriented technology—is both safer and more humane.
About Us
Citizens for Mental Health Reform is a grassroots advocacy group focused on digital rights, fair treatment, and humane conditions for people under mental health jurisdiction in the United States.
We also work on broader practical ideas that make America stronger and better for the American people: zero-debt education models that actually prepare citizens for real work, domestic energy solutions that turn waste into affordable power, and technology policies that protect both individual dignity and national interests.
Our approach is simple. Identify concrete problems, develop workable proposals, and push for solutions that respect public safety, human potential, and common sense. We believe a free and prosperous America requires systems that treat people as capable of growth rather than permanent problems to be managed.