When you think about human trafficking, you don’t think about how it can be affecting your neighbors, your customers, and your community. On this week’s episode of the Tallahassee Business…
Attention Social Workers, Schools, and anybody who works around children and youth! Here’s a tool and brief rundown of great info so you can understand and approach young people when…
Human traffickers use social media to lure, recruit, threaten, extort, betray, advertise, and commodify victims of human trafficking. Courts, like in this case with Facebook, are finding businesses who profit…
Written by: Chelsea Ziegmont The Survive and Thrive Advocacy Center (STAC) works to coordinate various services for human trafficking victims, tailored to the individual needs of the victim. Victims may…
The 2021 Florida Legislature passed a bill that reforms Florida human trafficking law by: creating a “human trafficking victim advocate – victim privilege,” broadening of the definition of human trafficking,…
Thank you to Volusia County for adopting this ordinance to enforce human trafficking hotline awareness info by posting the National Human Trafficking Hotline https://humantraffickinghotline.org/ info in English and Spanish so people can…
Human trafficking is a ‘crime of crimes’ where the traffickers often commit many illegal acts. Here, skilled artisans allege victimization in what “… could be the first forced-labor case of…
EVERYONE has a role in ending human trafficking – here’s how people working at banks and wire services can act. You can do something too: Ask if your financial institution…
HHS’ Office on Trafficking in Persons and the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office for Victims of Crime will hold a virtual resource fair on Housing and Economic Mobility on May…
Federal law and many states’ anti-trafficking laws create liability for businesses who “knew or should have known” that human trafficking was happening on their premises. Civil laws can protect and…