AB 1731, as amended, Atkins. Human trafficking: Statewide Interagency Human Trafficking Task Force.
Under existing law, anyone who deprives or violates the personal liberty of another with the intent to obtain forced labor or services, or with the intent to effect a violation of specified sex crimes is guilty of human trafficking. Under existing law, any person who causes a minor to engage in a commercial sex act, with the intent to violate specified sex crimes, is guilty of human trafficking.
This bill would create the Statewide Interagency Human Trafficking Taskbegin delete Force, as provided, andend deletebegin insert Force within the Department of Justice, which would consist of representatives from several state agencies and be chaired by a representative from the Department of Justice. The billend insert
would require the task force to gather statewide data on sex and labor traffickers, sex buyers, and human trafficking victims, to recommend interagency protocols and best practices for training and outreach to law enforcement, victim service providers, and other state and private sector employees likely to encounter sex trafficking, and to evaluate and implement approaches to increase public awareness about human trafficking.begin insert The bill would prohibit the task force from duplicating the protocols developed by the California Child Welfare Council.end insert
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 236.13 is added to the Penal Code, to
2read:
(a) The Statewide Interagency Human Trafficking
4Task Force is herebybegin delete created,end deletebegin insert created within the Department of
5Justice,end insert consisting of representatives from all of the following
6agencies:
7(1) begin deleteThe end deletebegin insertA representative of the end insertDepartment ofbegin delete Justice.end deletebegin insert
Justice
8shall be the chair of the task force.end insert
9(2) The State Department of Social Services.
10(3) The Children and Family Services Division of the State
11Department of Social Services.
12(4) The Labor and Workforce Development Agency.
13(5) The State Department of Public Health.
14(6) The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
15(7) The State Department of Education.
16(8) The Judicial Council.
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(9) The California Victim Compensation and Government
18Claims Board.
19(b) The task force shall do all of the following:
20(1) Gather statewide data on sex and labor traffickers, sex
21buyers, and human trafficking victims, including statistics on
22prosecution of offenders as well as services provided to victims,
23including commercially sexually exploited children.
24(2) Recommend interagency protocols and best practices for
25training and outreach to the law enforcement community, victim
26service providers, and other state or private sector employees likely
27to encounterbegin delete sexend delete trafficking, such as
educators and hotel workers.
28(3) Evaluate and implement approaches to increase public
29awareness about human trafficking and make new
30recommendations on these approaches.
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(c) The protocols described in subdivision (b) shall not duplicate
32the protocols developed by the California Child Welfare Council,
33established by Section 16540 of the Welfare and Institutions Code,
P3 1to implement the provisions of Section 16524 of the Welfare and
2Institutions Code.
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