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          Date of Hearing:   January 15, 2016


                             ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON RULES


                                    Gordon, Chair


          SCR  
                      88 (Runner) - As Introduced August 25, 2015


          SENATE VOTE:  39-0


          SUBJECT:  Human Trafficking Awareness Month.


          SUMMARY:  Proclaims the month of January 2016 as Human  
          Trafficking Awareness Month and encourages all Californians to  
          become educated about human trafficking and work to eradicate  
          these criminal practices within and beyond our borders.   
          Specifically, this resolution:  makes the following legislative  
          findings: 


          1)Human trafficking is a form of modern day slavery. It is a  
            crime that involves the use of force, fraud, or coercion to  
            recruit, harbor, transport, provide, or obtain a person for  
            the purposes of labor or sexual exploitation.

          2)Approximately 800,000 young children, teenagers, men, and  
            women are trafficked across international borders worldwide,  
            and between 14,500 and 17,500 of those victims are trafficked  
            into the United States each year according to the United  
            States Department of State.

          3)From mid-2010 to mid-2012, California's nine regional human  
            trafficking task forces identified 1,277 victims, initiated  
            2,552 investigations, arrested 1,798 individuals, and provided  
            training to 25,591 law enforcement personnel, prosecutors,  








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            victim service providers, and other first responders.   
            Nonprofit organizations, whose missions are to assist  
            trafficked individuals, provide resources allowing these  
            victims an opportunity to restore their lives through  
            physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual restoration.

          4)Americans are committed to individual freedom and will take  
            the necessary steps to nonviolently stop modern day slavery  
            around the world and help its victims through the continued  
            work of community organizations and human trafficking task  
            forces.  Opposition to human trafficking by the American  
            people will be directed against all individuals, groups,  
            organizations, and nations that support, advance, or commit  
            acts of modern day slavery.

          FISCAL EFFECT:  None


          REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION:


          Support


          Junior League of California State Public Affairs Committee
          Junior League of Palo Alto Ï Mid-Peninsula


          Opposition
          None on file


          Analysis Prepared by:Nicole Willis / RLS. / (916) 319-2800
          
















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