Housing and Economic Mobility Virtual Resource Fair
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…
Wave of Sex Trafficking Lawsuits Implicates Hospitality Industry
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…
You can educate, empower and connect to help stop human trafficking
United Partners for Human Services re-ran its Tale of Two Tally’s article in March highlighting the inequities that exist in preventing all of our neighbors from achieving economic mobility and the impacts…
Bitterness of slavery: Shomrei Torah fights human trafficking with Passover project
When members of Tallahassee’s Jewish synagogue Shomrei Torah observe the ritual dinner on the second night of Passover on March 28, an important call to action will be sounded, symbolizing…
The Intersection Between Telehealth and Human Trafficking
It has become overwhelmingly clear that the unprecedented circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted nearly every sector of life, including human trafficking. One of the responses to the COVID-19…
How Communities of Faith Are Bringing Awareness During Human Trafficking Prevention Month
Mission Moment: January 17, 2021 Greetings. I’m Sally Butzin, a member of the UCT Community Action Committee. Today our mission moment focuses on human trafficking. January is Human Trafficking Prevention…
Expert panel talks about the pervasiveness of human trafficking on recent WFSU episode
Just a few months ago, multiple law enforcement agencies broke a massive human trafficking operation that operated in Tallahassee. More than 170 suspects were arrested in connection with the abuse…