NATIONAL POLICIES & RULINGS: Victories & Steps Forward

This page is filled with national updates on government intervention and public policies that effect victims and survivors around the United States.

INDEX

• Department of Homeland Security Hearing on Backpage.com
• The President Declares No Human Trafficking on Our Roads Act
• US Congress Allocates $520 Million to Identify and Aid Trafficking Survivors

LINKS

• Senate Passes Bill; Heads to President’s Desk (SharedHope.org)
  • FOSTA Passes Through Senate; on President’s Desk

• House Passes Bill for Anti-Online Sex Trafficking (House of Representatives | WashingtonPost.com)
  • Bill gives victims a clearer way to enact legal action against sites hosting ads for their sexual trafficking
    • The bill now goes to Senate for a vote

• Department of Homeland Security Hearing on Backpage.com (US SENATE | Senate.gov)
  • Hearing on Backpage.com’s Knowing Facilitation of Online Sex Trafficking
    • Leading to the direct removal of “America’s Top Online Brothel” from the internet
    • Backpage.com is no longer functioning as a haven for sexual predators!

• The President Declares No Human Trafficking on Our Roads Act (WHITE HOUSE | WhiteHouse.gov)
  • January 2018 National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month
    • The President of the United States signed into law the Combating Human Trafficking in Commercial Vehicles Act and the No Human Trafficking on Our Roads Act
    • The bills aim to increase punishment for those who participate in human trafficking using commercial vehicles
    • The bills are committed to improving efforts to recognize, prevent, and report human trafficking in the United States

• US Congress Allocates $520 Million to Identify and Aid Trafficking Survivors (Congress.gov)
  • Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2017
  • Approval of the most comprehensive law in the United States to combat human trafficking proceeded through Congress in July 2017
  • Allocating $520 million over the next four years toward programs that are designed to identify and aid victims and survivors of human trafficking and prevent it from occurring

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