(Photo : Photo by David McNew/Getty Images) A hybrid police car is seen at the unveiling of two new Ford Fusion hybrid pursuit-rated Police Responder cars at Los Angeles Police Department headquarters on April 10, 2017 in Los Angeles, California.
A massive human trafficking operation based in Los Angeles rescued 33 missing children, several of whom were sexually exploited.
The FBI said in a news release the multiple law enforcement agencies worked on the Los Angeles-based trafficking investigation to identify, locate and rescue the missing children. These included the Los Angeles Police Department, the Los Angeles County Sheriff s Department and more than two-dozen law enforcement and non-governmental partners.
Free The Girls: Bra drive to fight human trafficking
An organization that helps victims of sexual assault and domestic violence is asking for your help, ladies especially. Author: Courtney Harrison Updated: 5:23 PM EST January 22, 2021
WAYNE COUNTY, Pa. For January, the Victims Intervention Program (VIP) of Wayne and Pike Counties is participating in a bra drive called Free the Girls: Fight Human Trafficking, in honor of Human Trafficking Awareness Month.
The drive raises money to help women rescued from sex trafficking reintegrate into their communities. We send them away, and survivors of human trafficking can actually start a business or use it for their business to make a sustainable income, said VIP executive director Michele Wolf.
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By Crystal McGough
PINSON – Pinson Mayor Joe Cochran gave a proclamation at the Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021, Pinson City Council meeting to establish that the city of Pinson recognizes the month of January as “Human Trafficking Awareness Month.”
The council had Resolution 2021-2 on the agenda, establishing the city of Pinson as a “Trafficking Free Zone,” but that resolution was tabled after Councilor Robbie Roberts made a motion to remove the “zero-tolerance” wording.
“I’m always a little nervous about very rigid language, and so I would like for us to strike the section here where it says, ‘the implementation and enforcement of a zero-tolerance policy against any act which may support human trafficking,’” Roberts said. “Certainly, no one wants to be involved in human trafficking. I would like for it just to read, ‘the implementation and enforcement of a policy against any act which may support human trafficking.’ The zero-tolerance, I’m afraid somebody
Staff Writer
WHEELING City leaders are taking a united stand to support those in the community who are victimized and exploited, adopting legislation proclaiming January as both Stalking Awareness Month and Human Trafficking Awareness Month.
Members of Wheeling City Council recently adopted the two proclamations on a virtual meeting with several representatives from area support groups in attendance during the meeting, including officials from the Upper Ohio Valley Sexual Assault Help Center, the Harmony House and both the YWCA Wheeling and its Survivors of Trafficking Empowerment Program.
According to one proclamation, 7.5 million people are stalked in a one-year period in the United States, and the majority of victims are stalked by someone they know. Many Stalking victims lose time from work and experience serious psychological distress and lost productivity at a much higher rate than the general population, the action stated.