Within the midst of a surging human trafficking epidemic, NTZ No Trafficking Zone is celebrating the information of HB 3554 being handed by each the Texas Home and Senate, and signed into regulation by Gov. Greg Abbott simply months in the past.
Since HB 3554, NTZ has held a number of occasions to unfold the phrase about this necessary growth.
“The regulation protects youngsters and youth in Residential Therapy Facilities, homeless youth shelters, juvenile detention facilities, foster care services, daycare facilities and different places the place human traffickers prey on society’s most susceptible youngsters,” learn an NTZ assertion.
In accordance with the Nationwide Foster Youth Institute, 60% of all baby victims of human trafficking nationwide have a historical past within the baby welfare system, a lot of them discovered throughout raids on intercourse trafficking rings throughout the nation.
“Our nation should implement techniques and legal guidelines that shield our most susceptible youngsters,” stated NTZ CEO Jacquelyn Aluotto, who is predicated in Houston, the town thought-about a nationwide hotspot for human traffickers. Thus, the work continues.
NTZ, in partnership with Kids at Danger, Uber and state and metropolis officers not too long ago hosted a press convention saying their assist of HB 2313, a first-of-its-kind invoice that might require Transportation Community Corporations (TNC) to supply human trafficking coaching supplies to their drivers concerning consciousness and the way to report such situations of trafficking.
In latest experiences, TNC drivers have unwittingly transported human trafficking victims in the middle of their cross-country driving. HB 2313-initiated experiences might assist regulation enforcement in figuring out victims and stopping additional hurt.
