Your state scored “F” against Human Trafficking

Think your state is tough on Human Trafficking? Most aren’t. Check yours here.

Thanks to reporting by Jessica Contrera from the Washington Post, I just read this:

Nearly every year for the past decade, a prominent anti-trafficking organization has handed out a “report card” on the United States, assigning each state a grade on its laws to protect victims of child sex trafficking. The goal: Motivate legislators who do not want bad grades to pass bills that ensure children sold for sex are not treated as criminals but as victims in need of services. With each new report, more laws were passed. States watched their “grades” improve from D’s and C’s to A’s and B’s.

But this November, when Shared Hope International convened in Washington to release its new round of grades, it announced that the rubric it had been using to score each state had changed. Rather than focus on the basic laws needed to protect victims, the report delved into the nuanced issues of prevention, training, victim identification, law enforcement strategy and more.

This time, 40 states were handed F’s.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/11/21/child-sex-trafficking-report-card-states-maryland/

If you go to https://reportcards.sharedhope.org/ you can see each state and how poorly they have been graded. Here’s my state of Ohio

Time to write your representative and your senator and demand better.