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The state attorney’s office in Orange and Osceola counties is receiving $1.4 million to crack down on human trafficking and domestic violence. 90.7’s Renata Sago has more.
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The Polk County Sheriff’s Office and Lakeland Police arrested 95 people during a five-day undercover prostitution operation.
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Next year strip clubs and massage parlors in Orange County will have to post signs giving the national human trafficking hotline. County commissioners passed the ordinance Tuesday.
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Orange County nightclubs and massage parlors may be required to post hotlines for human trafficking victims or face fines. Commissioner Pete Clarke has proposed an ordinance allowed under a new state law.
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Florida ranks near the top for the number of calls made to the National Human Trafficking Resource Center Hotline. Trafficking victims are forced into prostitution or made to work against their will. And in Florida, Orlando is a trafficking hub. Fighting human trafficking and helping its victims in Central Florida.
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In the shadows of the Sunshine State’s tourism industry, people are suffering through modern day slavery. Florida ranks third in the number of calls to the National Human Trafficking Resource Center hotline following California and Texas. We look at how one 19 year-old in Orlando is transitioning out of a life of sex trafficking.
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An Orlando non-profit will soon roll out a gaming app to fight human trafficking. The free app is to provide awareness and prevention of this crime to middle and high school students.
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An investigation into a heroin and sex trafficking ring has ended with the arrest of more than two dozen people. The Orange County Sheriff’s Office made the announcement today after a two-year investigation.
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Attorney General Pam Bondi’s Statewide Council on Human Trafficking met at UCF Tuesday. Florida ranks third in the number of calls to a national human trafficking hotline.