Even though a state-designated lab had been compiling data on human trafficking since it was established in 2019, the report ...

WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Jon Husted has introduced bipartisan legislation that would direct the Department of Labor to train its employees to identify human trafficking and refer suspected crimes to law ...

Human trafficking laws were supposed to help women. Victims’ stories say otherwise. Cara Kelly Dian Zhang. USA TODAY. EDITOR’S NOTE: USA TODAY does not name victims of sexual violence.

A recently published Santa Cruz County Civil Grand Jury report found that human trafficking in the county goes largely ...

A statewide report from the University of South Florida's Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Lab estimates that more than 700,000 ...

New legislation would provide legal help for human trafficking victims who have been accused of committing crimes while being exploited. Two linked bills filed this week by state Sen. Rosalind ...

The experts, mostly members of an informal working group on human trafficking, told the South Florida Sun Sentinel that legislators are pitching legislation without consulting with them or victims ...

While Williamson does not mind that the new law mandates human trafficking awareness training — and Ocean Partners already offers such training — he described the $2,000-per-day fine for ...

Sixty-eight counties, representing 72 percent of the total counties in the state, reported at least one case of human sex trafficking involving a minor child, while Shelby, Davidson, Coffee and ...

A flurry of bills filed in the Florida legislature aimed at combatting sex trafficking and assisting victims are facing a backlash from advocates who say they were written hastily, without input ...