Did you know?

Florida ranks #3 in reported human trafficking cases according to the National Human Trafficking Resource Center (NHTRC).

2,247 human trafficking cases concerning minors were reported in Florida in 2017 according to the Florida Department of Children and Families.

In 2016, 152 million children were in child labor globally according to the International Labor Office (ILO).

What is Human Trafficking?

Human Trafficking, under both federal and Florida law, is defined as the transporting, soliciting, recruiting, harboring, providing or obtaining of another person for transport; for the purposes of forced labor, domestic servitude or sexual exploitation using force, fraud and/or coercion. Human trafficking is modern slavery.

There are approximately 30 million people enslaved throughout the world with 2.5 million located right here in the United States.

• Many of these victims are lured with false promises of financial or emotional security; instead, they are forced or coerced into commercial sex (prostitution), domestic servitude or other types of forced labor.
• Any minor under the age of 18 who is induced to perform a commercial sex act is a victim of human trafficking according to U.S. law, regardless of whether there is force, fraud or coercion. Increasingly, criminal organizations, such as gangs, are luring children from local schools into commercial sexual exploitation or trafficking.
• According to the U.S. Department of Justice, every two minutes a child is trafficked for the purpose of sexual exploitation in the United States.

For more information:

FLDOE Human Trafficking Website

Human Trafficking 101 Informational Sheet

For more information about how required Child Trafficking Prevention instruction is being implemented at your child's school, contact school administration.