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Cannabis workers face death and exploitation. California is stepping in after Times investigation
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Cannabis workers face death and exploitation. California is stepping in after Times investigation

ByEyes on Trafficking News

WEAVERVILLE, Calif.  — Acknowledging growing concern over the mistreatment of cannabis workers, California regulators have quietly assembled a team to pursue labor exploitation in the state’s burgeoning weed industry. The new unit, housed within the Department of Cannabis Control, recently solicited help from law enforcement agencies statewide to investigate cannabis operators who coerce or threaten workers,…

California and Nevada may ban forced prison labor, involuntary servitude
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California and Nevada may ban forced prison labor, involuntary servitude

ByEyes on Trafficking News

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Lawmakers in Nevada and California are advancing legislation to remove “involuntary servitude” from their states’ constitutions, a move that follows four states’ bans on forced labor that passed in ballot measures last fall. The goal of these proposals is to remove exceptions from the states’ constitutions that allow forced labor as criminal…

Will California and Nevada finally outlaw slavery?
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Will California and Nevada finally outlaw slavery?

ByEyes on Trafficking News

Watch our event with a brilliant panel of activists discussing forced prison labor in the U.S. “We have an opportunity to stamp it out once and for all. We’re not going to stop until we get it done,” – Samuel Brown, formerly incarcerated person Lawmakers in California and Nevada are reportedly advancing legislation to remove language from…

California may ban forced prison labor, servitude
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California may ban forced prison labor, servitude

ByEyes on Trafficking News

Lawmakers backing the legislation hope to replicate the success of similar measures that passed last fall in Alabama, Oregon, Tennessee and Vermont. SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Lawmakers in Nevada and California are advancing legislation to remove “involuntary servitude” from their states’ constitutions, a move that follows four states’ bans on forced labor that passed in ballot…

Bay Area man pleads guilty to human trafficking, pimping
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Bay Area man pleads guilty to human trafficking, pimping

ByEyes on Trafficking News

A 25-year-old Solano man arrested in 2021 in connection with human trafficking has pleaded guilty to one count of human trafficking to obtain forced labor or services and one count of pimping, the Solano County District Attorney’s Office announced Friday. Davonte Tavarius Pariani, aka Davontae Tavarius Pariani, is expected to receive a determinate sentence of…