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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…

Survive and Thrive honors 6 for efforts to end human trafficking in – Tallahassee Democrat
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Survive and Thrive honors 6 for efforts to end human trafficking in – Tallahassee Democrat

ByEyes on Trafficking News

The Survive and Thrive Advocacy Center (STAC) recently honored six local changemakers and their teams for helping strengthen the community against sex and labor trafficking. Founded in 2015, STAC assists human trafficking survivors and empowers communities with the tools to recognize, report and prevent trafficking. As a member of the National Human Trafficking Hotline, STAC…

Tallahassee man sentenced to life for sex trafficking of a minor – WCTV
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Tallahassee man sentenced to life for sex trafficking of a minor – WCTV

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) – Tyron Columbia Watson, 39, of Tallahassee, Florida, was sentenced to life in federal prison for two counts of sex trafficking of a minor under the age of 14. The sentence was announced by Jason R. Coody, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida. Watson’s sentence resulted from a three-day…

$1.5 million grant to fight human trafficking awarded to Brazos County Sheriff’s Office
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$1.5 million grant to fight human trafficking awarded to Brazos County Sheriff’s Office

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The Brazos County Sheriff’s Office and Unbound Now BCS recently received a grant worth $1.5 million to create a multidisciplinary regional task force to fight human trafficking in the Brazos Valley. The Sheriff’s Office and Unbound Now BCS will each receive $750,000 distributed over the next three years. The task force will serve a 10-county…