Essential Question:
Does slavery still exist today, and how can individuals respond to injustice in our communities and in the world?
Does slavery still exist today, and how can individuals respond to injustice in our communities and in the world?
Human Trafficking Prevention Month
January is National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, and the FBI’s efforts to combat trafficking—part of the overall U.S. government effort—will continue unabated in 2016.
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What is Human Trafficking?
Human trafficking is modern-day slavery and involves the use of force, fraud, or coercion to obtain some type of labor or commercial sex act. |
What is human trafficking?
Human trafficking involves recruitment, harbouring or transporting people into a situation of exploitation through the use of violence, deception or coercion and forced to work against their will. |
Human Trafficking in Florida
Human Trafficking, under both federal and Florida law, it is defined as the transporting, soliciting, recruiting, harboring, providing, or obtaining of another person for transport; for the purposes of forced labor, domestic servitude or sexual exploitation using force, fraud and/or coercion. In 2012, Florida passed House Bill 99, also known as the Florida Safe Harbor Act. This legislation allows for minors to be deemed as dependent instead of delinquent as it gives law enforcement the discretion to either arrest or deliver the minor to a short term safe house, if available. In 2016, House Bill 7141 expanded the provisions of the Florida Safe Harbor Act by requiring the Department to develop or adopt a screening instrument for the identification of sexually exploited children, service planning and placement. In addition, staff such as child protective investigators and case managers are required to have specialized training prior to working with minors that have been sexually exploited. Lastly, it provided the minimums standards to certify a foster home or group home desiring to care for sexually exploited children. Upon certification, these licensed settings are then identified as Safe Foster Homes or Safe Houses to serve as a placement option for sexually exploited children and young adults. If you believe you are a victim of Human Trafficking or suspect an adult is a victim of human trafficking, please visit the National Human Trafficking Resource Center, or call them at 1-888-3737-888. If you suspect a child is a victim, please call the Florida Abuse Hotline at 1-800-96-ABUSE. |
Human trafficking reports increase
in Volusia County The Florida Abuse Hotline received 53 reports of human trafficking in Volusia County last year, up from 31 in 2016, Florida Department of Children and Families data shows. Volusia accounted for more than 71 percent of reports from the 7th Judicial Circuit, which also includes Flagler, Putnam and St. Johns counties. |
Human Trafficking in AMERICA'S SCHOOLS |
American Human Trafficking Laws
Video: Human trafficking is all around you. This is how it works.
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Video: Hidden America: Chilling New Look at Sex Trafficking in the US
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Video: In Plain Sight: Human Trafficking
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