Sean 'Diddy' Combs has been found guilty of violating the Mann Act. But the split verdict has stirred confusion about sex ...

Human trafficking laws were supposed to help women. Victims’ stories say otherwise. Cara Kelly Dian Zhang. USA TODAY. EDITOR’S NOTE: USA TODAY does not name victims of sexual violence.

California passed its first laws against human trafficking in 2005, five years after a federal law to crack down on the international trade of victims brought attention to the vulnerable children ...

Even though a state-designated lab had been compiling data on human trafficking since it was established in 2019, the report ...

The experts, mostly members of an informal working group on human trafficking, told the South Florida Sun Sentinel that legislators are pitching legislation without consulting with them or victims ...

A statewide report from the University of South Florida's Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Lab estimates that more than 700,000 ...

WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Jon Husted has introduced bipartisan legislation that would direct the Department of Labor to train its employees to identify human trafficking and refer suspected crimes to law ...

While Williamson does not mind that the new law mandates human trafficking awareness training — and Ocean Partners already offers such training — he described the $2,000-per-day fine for ...

Sixty-eight counties, representing 72 percent of the total counties in the state, reported at least one case of human sex trafficking involving a minor child, while Shelby, Davidson, Coffee and ...

A flurry of bills filed in the Florida legislature aimed at combatting sex trafficking and assisting victims are facing a backlash from advocates who say they were written hastily, without input ...