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Feds, strip clubs fighting human trafficking - chicagotribune.com
Source: chicagotribune.com
It was a standard hotel conference room scene — slices of fresh fruit
and muffins laid out next to coffee urns and bottles of water chilling
on ice as the attendees straggled in, industry friends hugging hello and
quickly catching up on personal lives.
The west suburban conference, though, was hardly typical, and before
it got started a hotel manager, standing near TV cameras there to cover
the event, even asked an organizer to leave his hotel chain's name out
of remarks if possible.
The 100 or so attendees were dancers, doormen, valets and bartenders from six Chicago-area
strip clubs. And they were there to meet with federal agents from the
Department of Homeland Security about how they might offer help with a
problem that has increasingly become a target of law enforcement
investigations: sex trafficking.
Continue here:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-strip-club-trafficking-training-met-20140406,0,467972.story
It was a standard hotel conference room scene — slices of fresh fruit
and muffins laid out next to coffee urns and bottles of water chilling
on ice as the attendees straggled in, industry friends hugging hello and
quickly catching up on personal lives.
The west suburban conference, though, was hardly typical, and before
it got started a hotel manager, standing near TV cameras there to cover
the event, even asked an organizer to leave his hotel chain's name out
of remarks if possible.
The 100 or so attendees were dancers, doormen, valets and bartenders from six Chicago-area
strip clubs. And they were there to meet with federal agents from the
Department of Homeland Security about how they might offer help with a
problem that has increasingly become a target of law enforcement
investigations: sex trafficking.
Continue here:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-strip-club-trafficking-training-met-20140406,0,467972.story
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
New federal initiative targets human trafficking in western Missouri, Kansas - KansasCity.com
Mon, Jul. 25, 2011 11:01 PM
By MARK MORRISWestern Missouri and Kansas will be the focus of one of six new federal law enforcement teams targeting human trafficking, the U.S. Justice Department announced Monday.
Housed in Kansas City, the Anti-Trafficking Coordination Team is designed to “streamline” criminal investigations and prosecution of violators of federal slavery laws, authorities said.
In a written statement, U.S. Attorney Beth Phillips of western Missouri said the initiative means that more prosecutors and additional agents from the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security will develop human trafficking cases. The district already has a human trafficking task force that has prosecuted several high-profile cases, she noted.
“We are committed to build on that success and to take aggressive steps now to advance the work of the task force,” Phillips said.
In his own written statement, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom of Kansas said the additional resources will be welcome.
“The anti-trafficking team will give us the tools we need to fight this cruel, despicable practice wherever we find it.”
Other such teams will operate in Atlanta; Los Angeles; Miami; El Paso, Texas; and Memphis, Tenn. The team will include federal prosecutors and agents, and will identify and target human trafficking threats.
In February, the Justice Department announced a competition among its districts around the country to qualify for one of the teams.
Though human trafficking once was thought to be a coastal phenomenon, Missouri has emerged as a prosecution hot spot. In addition to some child prostitution cases brought under federal anti-trafficking laws, authorities here pursued in 2009 what was then the largest labor trafficking ring ever brought to court under federal racketeering laws.
To reach Mark Morris, call 816-234-4310 or send email to mmorris@kcstar.com.
Read The Star's award-winning series "A New Slavery: Human Trafficking in America"
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