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Florida’s Human Trafficking Summit Aaron Mesmer reports. TAMPA, Fla. – Florida’s Human Trafficking Summit kicked off Tuesday, as experts discussed ways to end human trafficking and help survivors. The conference, which is online and free to the public, brings together survivors, law enforcement, prosecutors, victim advocates and community leaders who are committed to combating human…
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…
Human trafficking of any kind is one of the vilest types of evil. A company as large as Walt Disney plays a significant role in child welfare. After the company was proven to have violated children’s rights, the masses and media began to connect the company to many human trafficking cases, missing persons issues, and…
Editor’s note: We are non-partisan. Children are being hurt. Please, watch, read, learn, and act accordingly. Hearing Date: Wednesday 04/26/2023 – 3:00 PM Hearing Location: 2141 Rayburn House Office Building The hearing, “The Biden Border Crisis: Exploitation of Unaccompanied Alien Children,” will examine the unprecedented surge of unaccompanied alien children at the southwest border and…
Editor’s note: who regulates the safehouses in your area? Just call them and ask. If you feel they need to be regulated, contact your representatives. Survivors of human trafficking are trusting only 9 Investigates with concerns about a local safehouse. They claim the programming they were promised at the Lifeboat Project, including therapy services, weren’t…
Parents should be knowledgeable about who their students are talking with online. Parents have reason to be concerned. Florida is one of the top three states in the nation in reported cases of human trafficking every year. That’s not a difficult statistic to believe. More than 200 people suspected of sex trafficking, prostitution and solicitation…
POLK COUNTY, Fla. — The Polk County Sheriff’s Office has arrested 213 suspects in an undercover human trafficking operation. Investigators with multiple agencies said the suspects allegedly solicited prostitutes and aided and abetted prostitution. Out of the 111 sex workers arrested 24 have been identified as possible human trafficking victims and 14 have been identified…
A veteran school board member from California was arrested in Florida after being caught in an undercover human trafficking operation. Scott Kenneth Wooden, 60, was taken into custody last weekend and charged with one count of soliciting another to commit prostitution, authorities announced. Wooden was among 213 people authorities arrested as part of the seven-day…
NORTH COUNTY — A longtime Del Mar Union school board member was arrested Saturday, Feb. 11, on suspicion of soliciting prostitution in Florida, officials there announced Thursday morning, Feb. 16. Scott Wooden, 60, was one of 213 people arrested during a seven-day operation — dubbed Operation Traffic Stop — that aimed to crack down on human trafficking…
(NewsNation) — Authorities have rescued 24 possible human trafficking victims and arrested 213 people during the course of a seven-day investigation in Florida. The Polk County Sheriff’s Office Vice Unit started Operation Traffic Stop on Feb. 6. While specific details of the operation were limited, investigators said those traveling to provide prostitution services were screened by…
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