"Problem: Too many sex trafficking victims are not being found or helped in the United States because too many local governments are ignorant of state and federal human trafficking laws. Compounding this problem, cities and counties are lagging behind, not revising their laws to bring them into line with state law, and in some cases are even enacting new local legislation directly at odds with state law protecting human trafficking victims....
"Here is an example of a city website where one can look up local laws.
"This action is just the beginning of what should be a larger and more complex process; there are other questions to ask of the laws, and I am not implying this first step is an end point. But it is the beginning of examining the systemic problem of sex trafficking response on the ground, where it happens, in a systematic manner, to get a closer look at the systems that are oppressing and missing victims. We simply need more data...."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/margaret-howard/organize-to-scrutinize-yo_b_2863553.html
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