Human Trafficking Tool for Youth and at Risk
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…
Supporting Human Trafficking Survivors: 2021 Florida Human Trafficking Legislation
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,…
Volusia County Council passes human trafficking awareness ordinance
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…
I Work at a Bank or Money Wire Service: What Can I Do to Combat Human Trafficking?
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…
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…
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…