Flagler County

Florida keeps using unpaid prison labor to prepare for hurricanes
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Florida keeps using unpaid prison labor to prepare for hurricanes

ByEyes on Trafficking News

  As Floridians prepared for Hurricane Idalia to make landfall on the upper central coast earlier this week, several counties deployed unpaid prison labor, as they have in the past, to fill the sandbags used to prevent flood damage. At least four counties — including Lake County, Polk County, Taylor County and Flagler County — relied on…

Child molester sentenced to prison following arrest during human trafficking investigation
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Child molester sentenced to prison following arrest during human trafficking investigation

ByEyes on Trafficking News

A Palm Coast man arrested in July during a human trafficking investigation involving children was sentenced to 25 years in Florida State Prison after he pleaded guilty to 26 felony counts. In July, Peter Strickland, 32, was arrested after investigators discovered that Strickland was soliciting sex acts from juvenile girls, who were possibly as young as 13…

LETTERS: Expert to speak on human trafficking | Palm Coast Observer
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LETTERS: Expert to speak on human trafficking | Palm Coast Observer

ByEyes on Trafficking News

Expert to speak on human trafficking Dear Editor: January is National Human Trafficking Awareness month, and the Flagler Tiger Bay Club welcomes Tomas Lares, award-winning advocate and leader of United Abolitionists, as our luncheon speaker at the Hammock Dunes Club on Thursday, Jan. 19. We don’t see much human trafficking in Flagler County, just like…