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AATN launches its SAFE Human Trafficking Awareness Training at Sky Harbor
On World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, AATN and the Arizona Attorney General’s Office announced new training for the tourism industry to combat human trafficking starting with Sky Harbor. Take a look at the TV interview on Fox10 News SAFE Action Project (safeactionproject.org) is a program put on by the Arizona Anti-Trafficking Network and the Arizona […]
Operation Summer Shield – an undercover operation targeting the demand for child sex crimes and human trafficking in Arizona
The Tempe Police Department recently partnered with the Mesa Police Department, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Attorney General’s Office for Operation Summer Shield. Operation Summer Shield was an undercover operation targeting the demand for child sex crimes and human trafficking. Throughout the operational period, officers and undercover detectives placed ads on websites and apps […]
Chandler detective busts a sex trafficker targeting Arizona from inside a California prison
An undercover Chandler Detective here in Arizona used a fake social media profile and cell phone for a few weeks with the incarcerated convict to bust Wendell Bullock. Wendell Bullock groomed (what he thought was) a teen how to conduct commercial sex help her know how to screen for buyers. TRUST’s Stacey Sutherland, interviewed by ABC15, reinforced […]
Jeffrey Epstein charged with sex trafficking victims as young as 14
Epstein, 66, is accused of seeking out minors, some as young as 14, from at least 2002 through 2005 and paying them hundreds of dollars in cash for sex. An “extraordinary volume” of photographs featuring nude or partially nude young girls was confiscated from the New York City home of Jeffrey Epstein, federal prosecutors revealed […]
Facebook Live Series: DHS Blue Campaign & Polaris
Join us for a four-part Facebook Live series with the Polaris-operated National Human Trafficking Hotline. We’ll be discussing how to recognize and report human trafficking. Schedule and topics below. 7/10 – 1PM EDT – National Human Trafficking Hotline: Behind-the-Scenes What happens when a community member, victim, or survivor contacts the Hotline. On World Day Against […]
TRUST are proud to be part of the Arizona PTA Convention 2019
Arizona PTA is a State Congress of the National PTA working collaboratively with national and local education, health, safety and child advocacy groups. Mission: To make every child’s potential a reality by engaging and empowering families and communities to advocate for children. “every child. one voice.”
Sex Trafficking in America by Frontline
Sex Trafficking in America tells the unimaginable stories of young women coerced into prostitution – and follows one police unit that’s committed to rooting out sexual exploitation in Arizona.
A wonderful Message from SOAP Phoenix
Over 10,000 bars of soap labeled with the National Human Trafficking Hotline Number ready to go out and be distributed to Phoenix area hotels! Thank you ASU Changemaker Central for hosting the annual #DevilsinDisguise day of service for Arizona State Arizona State University students! It takes a community and we are grateful for our partnerships […]
TRUST taught Human Trafficking to a criminology class at MESA Community College.
About the Red Sand Project Overlooked populations—refugees, immigrants, LGBTQ people, people of color, indigenous people, people with disabilities, women and girls, and children—are most at risk of being enslaved, spending their lives being exploited for the profit of others. To recognize those who are overlooked, CSI participated in The Red Sand Project’s sidewalk interventions […]