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February 2020
By: Julian Walker October 2, 2019
What images does the word “slavery” conjure up in your mind? People in iron collars shipped on huge wooden galleons, forced to work the fields under the whip of the master? Perhaps you think that slavery is a concept abolished in the 1800s?
The sobering reality, however, is that behind closed doors, slavery continues to exist in our modern world. In fact, slavery not only exists but flourishes in the form of human trafficking for profit and exploitation, affecting the lives of millions of people around the world and robbing them of their dignity.
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February 2020
By: Ryan Nicol January 24, 2020
Attorney General Ashley Moody met with business leaders in South Florida Friday for a discussion on strengthening efforts to prevent human trafficking ahead of Super Bowl LIV.
The Super Bowl will take place on Feb. 2 at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens. The game attracts thousands of visitors each year looking to watch the game and participate in parties and events in the week leading up to the contest.
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February 2020
January 24, 2020
In an effort to crackdown on human trafficking ahead of next year’s Super Bowl in Miami, Uber is teaming up with state law enforcement.
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody and Uber announced the initiative Wednesday.
“We are starting now, sending a consistent and strong message to anyone who would engage in human trafficking during the Super Bowl, that we will have hundreds of law enforcement officers, transportation drivers and other dedicated citizens trained to spot and report you. I want to thank Uber’s leadership team for their dedication to fighting human trafficking and working to secure a safe environment for fans and families traveling to Florida to watch the championship game,” said Moody in a statement.
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February 2020
By: Linda Robertson January 9, 2020
Super Bowl 54 is coming to South Florida and bringing a flood of human traffickers and trafficking victims with it.
To prepare, the hotel industry convened an anti-trafficking summit Thursday at the Fontainebleau resort in Miami Beach and trained employees on how to recognize and report criminal behavior.
“When there’s an influx of thousands of people, trafficking will go up,” said Sarah de Carvalho, CEO of the It’s a Penalty campaign. “Traffickers want to make more money, so they converge on large events.”
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February 2020
By: Deborah Richardson January 25, 2020
Georgia’s movement to end human trafficking began in 2000 with legislation that made pimping and pandering children a felony. Until then, children as young as age 10 were arrested and detained for child prostitution, while predators trafficking and buying these children only faced a misdemeanor. There were no safe houses or therapeutic facilities. Instead, children remained in juvenile detention and returned to environments where they were often re-victimized.
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February 2020
By: Allison Ausband January 25, 2020
I started my career at Delta as a flight attendant in 1985. It wasn’t until nearly three decades later that I was exposed to the reality of labor and sex trafficking. My husband received a call one evening from an employee living here in Atlanta. Frantic, she explained that her daughter was missing. Days passed before they were able to find her teenager; once they found her, she had suffered such abuse it was too difficult for her to return home.
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February 2020
By: Marty Kemp January 25, 2020
Right now, in Georgia, thousands of innocent lives are enslaved in human trafficking. The average age of these victims is 14 years old. This heinous, illegal enterprise exists in every Georgia community, fueled by profit-driven criminal networks – including street gangs – selling sex to johns from every walk of life and mercilessly exploiting the vulnerable. Victims are beaten, drugged, raped, and hidden in the shadows – right in your backyard.
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February 2020
By: Greg Bluestein January 21, 2020
Gov. Brian Kemp, his wife, and his top Republican allies unveiled legislation Tuesday that would toughen penalties for sex traffickers and ease the rehabilitation of their victims, part of what he called an ongoing effort to “drag this evil industry into the light.”
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February 2020
By: Greg Bluestein January 13, 2020
At the start of the legislative session, Gov. Brian Kemp and his administration sent the unmistakable signal Monday that cracking down on sex trafficking remains at the top of his list.
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