Collective Liberty Supports Law Enforcement Operation Game STOP at the World Games 2022 – Human Trafficking Intel Support
The 2022 World Games in Birmingham, Alabama was the site of a major collaborative effort between NGOs and federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies…
What Does the Data Say? Human Trafficking and the Super Bowl
The Super Bowl, like other mass gatherings, is often correlated with an increase in trafficking, due to the tens of thousands of people it attracts…
Times Square Anti-Trafficking Billboard “Our World Could Be Different”
Times Square Billboard Press Release July New York, July 2022: Award-winning national anti-trafficking organization Collective Liberty launched a summer billboard in Times Square in partnership with Neutron…
Texas DFPS Awards Detective Joseph Scaramucci, Collective Liberty Partner & Training Faculty
We are so proud of our expert faculty across the nation, and were excited as we submitted the nomination for Joseph Scaramucci, Human Trafficking Information…
Over 50 Organizations and U.S. Government Oppose American Law Institute (ALI) Proposed Changes to the Model Penal Code
WASHINGTON: May 16, 2022 – A group of well-known anti-trafficking, survivor, women’s, and legal organizations are opposing proposed amendments to the Model Penal Code being voted…
URGENT ACTION: Join Collective Liberty and NCOSE in Opposing the ALI MPC Amendments Up for Vote Tues May 17, 2022.
The American Law Institute (ALI)* (see below) is in Washington DC this Mon-Wed May 16-18, 2022 for their annual meeting and members will vote on changes to…
Trafficking Prevention Support at Ukraine-Poland Border March 2022
Our team was proud to support our longtime partners Unbound Global in their on-the-ground effort in Ukraine! Collective Liberty provided intel reports on cultural and tactical considerations…
Collective Liberty Crossfit Workout of the Day (WOD)
3. 2. 1. GO! Since one of our founding board members, and now Strategy and Business Operations Manager, is an active Crossfit athlete and coach,…
Labor Trafficking. Learn the signs to save lives!
Currently hundreds of thousands of people are trapped in labor trafficking situations with numbers escalating over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. Traffickers rely on…
HUMAN TRAFFICKING VICTIMS: INDIGENOUS WOMEN VULNERABILITIES
While it is true that anyone can be trafficked, we have to face the reality that certain groups are disproportionately represented and victimized. Understanding their history,…
Donate now to make a difference in the fight against human trafficking!
At Collective Liberty, our purpose extends beyond the justice system. While our innovative technologies produce efficient insights needed by law enforcement and other agencies to…
Monthly Newsletter. September 2021. Learn the Signs of Human Trafficking!
Subscribe to Our Newsletter and Stay Informed In September, when we take time to honor and recognize the American labor movement, we want to draw…
Journeys are Better with a Team
Register a Team Today! Photo by Pixabay from Pexels Our Team at Collective LibertyIt is amazing and humbling to think that Collective Liberty is about…
Collective Run for Collective Freedom
Every year at the start of September, the United States takes a moment to pause and recognize Labor Day – a celebration of the rights…
Monthly Newsletter. August 2021. Labor Issues
Subscribe to Our Newsletter and Stay Informed Pre-pandemic, the routine denial of fair and consistent wages contributed to worker stress, distress, and potential for injuries…
HUMAN TRAFFICKING VICTIMS: LGBTQ PERSPECTIVE
According to a 2017 HHS report focused on enhancing the identification of trafficking victims, of those victims who self-identified and self-reported, 14% identified as LGBTQ+.…
Monthly Newsletter. June 2021. Potential victims arrests
Subscribe to Our Newsletter and Stay Informed A report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in 2012 estimated that men accounted for 25…
Amazon Warehouses and Exploitation
Watch our Facebook Live and learn more about Amazon’s Warehouses’ exploitative labor practices. Thomson Reuters reporters talked to more than a dozen former workers in Amazon warehouses…
Collective Liberty on Fox News
Our CEO, Rochelle Keyhan spoke to Fox News about human trafficking in Illicit Massage Businesses. “A lot of the networks we’ve identified in our work…
Human Trafficking Course for Financial Institutions
Collective Liberty in partnership with Innova Learning and ComplianceAid, leading providers of eLearning and comprehensive corporate education, present the corporate training module for financial institutions With decades of experience…
Monthly Newsletter. May 2021. The music industry and human trafficking
Subscribe to Our Newsletter and Stay Informed Our team of experts traveled to Laredo and Brownsville in Texas to train local experts along the border…
Are Commercial Landlords Liable for Human Trafficking on Their Property?
As a commercial landlord renting space to a business like a massage parlor, nail salon, or bar, are you liable for human trafficking occurring on…
POWER AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING
We often have a predisposed idea of what a trafficker looks like, and sometimes it isn’t what we think. Sometimes the exploiters are high-powered or…
Human Trafficking in Texas
While trafficking occurs all over the nation, all roads also lead to Texas. Texas has one of the largest state highway systems in the country, allowing it…
Media Outreach: Bringing Mass Attention to Human Trafficking
Our goal is to change the media coverage of human trafficking to be less sensational and more in-depth and data-driven. When we shift the focus…
Monthly Newsletter. April 2021. Matt Gaetz, child trafficking and Impact report
Subscribe to Our Newsletter and Stay Informed Matt Gaetz paid the accused sex trafficker, who later sent the same amount of cash to teen girls In…
Legal Research Intern
About Collective Liberty:Collective Liberty is an award winning NGO whose mission is to eradicate human trafficking by collaborating across industries, agencies, and service providers to…
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Intel Support and Operations
Collective Liberty provides intel support to law enforcement for an operation targeting traffickers across the US. We are thrilled that law enforcement agencies from so…
Survivor Leader Collaboration
We partner with survivor leaders to eradicate human trafficking in the United States and train others to do the same in the most victim-centered, intelligence-driven…
How we made a difference
At Collective Liberty, we focus on disrupting human trafficking markets across the 25+ types of human trafficking identified in the United States. Since traffickers are…
Collective Liberty Annual Impact Report: 2020
Despite a year filled with uncertainty and turbulence, we’ve remained laser-focused on our commitment to those who have become even more vulnerable during this pandemic…
Recruiting women into Illicit Massage Business
The vast majority of women reported to have been trafficked in IMBs are from China. The next highest group are women from South Korea. The…
Monthly Newsletter. March 2021. Atlanta Shootings
Subscribe to Our Newsletter and Stay Informed WHAT’S BEEN GOING ON? THE ATLANTA SHOOTINGS On March 16, 2021, a series of mass shootings occurred at three…
Indicators that a massage parlor is engaging in commercial sex and potential human (sex or labor) trafficking
• Prices significantly below market-level (e.g. $40 for a one hour massage in a city where $80 is the norm) • Women report that they…
Massage parlor trafficking: FACTS AND STATISTICS
Collective Liberty subject matter experts conducted 3 years field building around systems change work to eliminate massage parlor trafficking from the USA from which their…
Monthly Newsletter. February 2021. Super Bowl and Potential Victims Arrests Across the US
Subscribe to Our Newsletter and Stay Informed This month, Collective Liberty was invited to Tampa, Florida to provide direct analytical support to the Tampa Bay…
1,000+ trafficking venues closed, 164 traffickers arrested, 350+ victims identified and supported
Collective Liberty is excited to release its 2021 Annual Impact Report. This year alone, our work directly supported the arrest and prosecution of 73 human traffickers…
Monthly Newsletter. January 2021. COVID-19 and exploitation of meatpacking workers
Subscribe to Our Newsletter and Stay Informed January is Human Trafficking Prevention month and Collective Liberty wants to give 5 lucky winners a chance to show…
AS SEEN ON: THIS IS LIFE WITH LISA LING
Catch us on this season’s “This Is Life” as Lisa Ling joins Collective Liberty and our partner, Detective Scaramucci, as we uncover “The Secret World…
SUPPORT US AS WE SUPPORT OTHERS
Starting this Giving Tuesday through the end of the year, we are gifting a hand stitched mask from a Mazahua artisan indigenous community significantly impacted…
Collective Liberty to Compete at Elite SXSW Pitch 2020 Competition
UPDATE: SXSW 2020 was canceled as a result of COVID and plans for the 2020 competition have yet to be announced. Read our feature in Washington…
MassChallenge Diamond Award Winner
Our programming and leading technology solutions have earned us the Diamond Award at the MassChallenge Texas (MCTX) accelerator program! Collective Liberty staff are nationally renowned,…
COVID19 And Human Trafficking Vulnerability
Since COVID lockdowns began last month, we’ve provided analytical and case support for active investigations of 17 different men attempting to pay juveniles for sexual…
Human Trafficking Weekly News Tracking
We monitor and fact check media coverage of human trafficking and share the top cases from each week with you. A broad view of what…
MIT Elevate Prize SemiFinalist Honors!!
We are humbled to have been chosen as a semi-finalist out of 1,300 organizations from nearly 120 countries for the Elevate Prize, in partnership with…
Accelicity GovTech Accelerator And Competition
Wish our CEO luck as she enters three rounds of judging to compete for a Finalist spot in the Accelicity Govtech competition! We should know…
HT Victim Support Letter To The Editor: NY Daily News
Rochelle Keyhan, our CEO was published this morning in the print and digital edition of the New York Daily News regarding the New York City loitering law…
Tyler, TX Advanced HT Institute – COVID Edition!
This was an excellent institute – with strong collaboration from local agencies like For the Silent, national tech agencies like Thorn and TRAC, survivor leaders…
Wayfair Cabinets Are Not Human Trafficking!
Collective Liberty Analysts received a request this morning to assist with analytical support on this case from one of our partner law enforcement agencies. We…
ANOTHER ADVANCED HUMAN TRAFFICKING INSTITUTE SUCCESS!
Today marked the conclusion of Collective Liberty’s Advanced Human Trafficking Investigator’s Course. Law enforcement throughout the Dallas Fort Worth area, including: Arlington PD VICE, Collin…
CITYXGUIDE SEIZED BY FEDERAL AGENCIES – FOUNDER ARRESTED.
Last night Dallas area officials shut down “CityXGuide”-a replacement for “Backpage.com“, which Texas officials were also instrumental in shutting down. The Indictment describes how the…
2019 IMPACT: COLLECTIVE LIBERTY ANNUAL REPORT
As we power through the re-imagining of social interaction amidst COVID, we are looking back on our achievements of 2019 and making even more ambitious…
*CALENDAR ALERT* COMMUNITY TOWNHALL ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING
Tomorrow Women Against Human Trafficking is hosting a Virtual Town Hall Meeting featuring survivors, artists, and experts discussing human trafficking in 2020. As a national…
COVID19 AND INCREASED CYBER EXPLOITATION
Collective Liberty was on the front lines of supporting a cyber-related child sexual exploitation operation this month, partnering with the McLennan County Sheriff’s Office to…
HT VICTIMS HAVE NO COVID PROTECTION, NOR DO CLIENTS
Youth who were being sex trafficked and exploited before COVID are at even greater risk as we shelter in place. Their traffickers are making less…
TIGER KING, CAROLE BASKIN, AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING
“Has hype around Netflix’s ‘Tiger King’ masked signs of human trafficking?” Click through to read this piece at Thomson Reuters Foundation News from our CEO Rochelle Keyhan. https://www.facebook.com/v10.0/plugins/post.php?app_id=&channel=https%3A%2F%2Fstaticxx.facebook.com%2Fx%2Fconnect%2Fxd_arbiter%2F%3Fversion%3D46%23cb%3Dfa1a4d94fab69de4a%26domain%3Dcollectiveliberty.org%26is_canvas%3Dfalse%26origin%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fcollectiveliberty.org%252Ff18f86080355379a8%26relation%3Dparent.parent&container_width=906&href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FCollectiveLibertyNGO%2Fposts%2F678684049598012&locale=en_US&sdk=joey&show_text=true&width=500…
WE WON 4TH PLACE AT STARTUP OF THE YEAR!
Collective Liberty competed as a finalist for the Startup of the Year competition – an official event of SXSW Pitch 2020. And, we won the fourth…
WASHINGTON POST FEATURE: COLLECTIVE LIBERTY AND DATA FOR GOOD
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VISIT US AT SOUTH BY SOUTHWEST 2020!
Edit: SXSW 2020 was canceled as a result of COVID and plans for the 2020 competition have yet to be announced. Read our feature in Washington…
Main business consulting trends 21/22
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COLLECTIVE LIBERTY: FINALIST AT ELITE SXSWPITCH 2020 COMPETITION!
We are pitching at South by Southwest! Collective Liberty joins the elite top 5% of global startups, competing as a finalist at SXSW Pitch 2020, a…
LEGISLATION TO REAUTHORIZE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE STUDY ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN A DECADE
We are proud of our opportunities to support local and national public policy efforts that improve our national approach to fighting human trafficking. This includes…
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WE HOSTED OUR 12TH NATIONAL ADVANCED HUMAN TRAFFICKING TRAINING INSTITUTE
We are excited to kick off this week’s “Advanced human trafficking investigations training” in Austin. This is our 12th national institute and we learn so…
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CAN WE REALLY END HUMAN TRAFFICKING? IT’S TIME TO FOCUS ON OFFENDERS
We hope as we close out January, National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, the spirit of the month can be a motivator for us…
CORPORATE ENGAGEMENT: HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY
What do Massachusetts, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, and now Arkansas have in common? More and more cases across the country are seeing motels and hotels…
SUPPORT ANTI-TRAFFICKING, NYC HOLIDAY PARTY STYLE!
For our NYC area supporters – are you looking to join in on the NYC Holiday Party Joy? If so – please join us next…
CHILD LABOR AND MAKEUP/BEAUTY
Think your makeup is ethical because it is sourced sustainably from all natural ingredients? Don’t forget to pay attention to the labor supply chain for…
INNOVATE4GOOD 2019 PRIZE WINNER
We were grateful to have won the 2019 Innovate4Good tech competition yesterday for our Forging Freedom tech and data driven tools to fight human trafficking. It was…
MASSCHALLENGE DIAMOND AWARD WINNER
Amidst all the trainings and partner support work we did over the summer, our CEO was also part of the MassChallenge Texas (MCTX) accelerator process.…
HISTORIC HEARING ON LEGALIZING THE SEX TRADE IN NATION’S CAPITOL
Tomorrow The Council of the District of Columbia is hosting a hearing for testimony from over 150 community members and organizations about their bill decriminalizing portions of…
DC BILL #318 TO LEGALIZE SEX BUYING AND SELLING
On 10/17 there is a hearing before DC City Council on a bill that fully decriminalizes buying sex and stash houses, which often involve significant…
INNOVATING SERVICES FOR YOUTH HT SURVIVORS
The Center for Court Innovation is currently working on a project funded by OVC, to create a package of informational materials for child trafficking survivors, to support…
DEMI MOORE’S MOTHER AND FAMILIAL TRAFFICKING OF MINORS
When survivors come forward, it is difficult and sensitive, and the way media covers, and we talk about, Demi Moore’s experience is important. Familial trafficking…
COLLECTIVE LIBERTY EARNS TOP FINALIST STATUS AT MASSCHALLENGE
We are proud to announce that Collective Liberty is a Top Finalist startup for the MassChallenge Texas in Austin 2019 accelerator program! Our programming and technical solutions…
CEO TESTIFIES AT DC HEARING ON LEGALIZING SEX TRADE
DC City Council is hosting a hearing today for over 170 witnesses testifying for an against legalizing the sex trade in the District of Columbia,…
COLLECTIVE LIBERTY CEO “CYBER INVESTIGATIONS CONTRIBUTOR OF THE YEAR” WINNER!
Our CEO Rochelle Keyhan was honored with the International Association of Financial Crimes‘ annual “Cyber Crime Investigations Contributor of the Year” award at this year’s conference. She…
OUR 3RD LAW ENFORCEMENT INSTITUTE OF 2019: WACO, TX!
Our training Institute in Waco, TX last week was a huge success! In partnership with the Heart of Texas Human Trafficking Coalition, Unbound Waco, and various faculty…
ICE RAIDS: WHY AREN’T CORPORATE OFFICIALS ACCOUNTABLE FOR EXPLOITATIVE HIRING PRACTICES?
Did you know that a 10 lb bag of chicken quarters cost $4.99 in Austin, TX the day ICE arrested 680 at poultry processing farms…
AURORA, CO BASES MASSAGE PARLOR ORDINANCE OFF OF OUR TEAM’S REPORT
“This approach ensures that every future operation represents another step away from repetitious low-level arrests that typically only penalize potential victims, towards a future where…
3 SEX TRAFFICKING VICTIMS EXTRACTED FROM TRAFFICKERS IN SEPARATE CASES IN 24-HOUR PERIOD, 1 MAN ARRESTED
A large part of our work with partners in Europe has been learning the ins and outs of the different partial decriminalization models that exist.…
3 SEX TRAFFICKING VICTIMS EXTRACTED FROM TRAFFICKERS IN SEPARATE CASES IN 24-HOUR PERIOD, 1 MAN ARRESTED
In McLennan County, TX, population 250,000, their sheriff’s department is all hands on deck to end human trafficking. Over the weekend – their patrol guys…
NATIONAL DOMESTIC WORKERS BILL OF RIGHTS
National Domestic Workers Alliance was on Capital Hill this week to talk to legislators about the importance of our National Domestic Workers Bill of Rights.…
R. KELLY ARRESTED ON FEDERAL SEX TRAFFICKING CHARGES
Back in February, our CEO wrote about R. Kelly’s human trafficking behavior for the Thomson Reuters Foundation News and challenged the criminal justice system to hold him…
Jeffrey Epstein Arrested For Human Trafficking
Justice may finally come for the victims of this trafficker. A news-roundup is below, outlining the charges he is facing, the journalist whose relentless coverage…
ARE YOUR TINNED TOMATOES PICKED BY SLAVE LABOR?
While this article is an in-depth study on the labor trafficking across agricultural fields in Italy, the survivor accounts and experiences, and the traffickers’ behavior,…
SEX TRAFFICKING SURVIVORS: OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE
Edit: See the full letter with signatories, available here. Survivors of sex trafficking wrote an open letter to the presidential candidates about their position on legalization…
CYBERWEEK: AI/ML TO END HUMAN TRAFFICKING
It was an honor for our CEO Rochelle Keyhan to speak alongside our partners ThetaRay about their groundbreaking unsupervised machine learning, and ways high tech data solutions can help…
MASSCHALLENGE TEXAS STARTUP SHOWCASE
Mass Challenge Austin Texas 2019 Finalist Cohort Launch Day Busy week this week! We are training statewide code enforcement and department of health officials in…
OUT OF SIGHT: MODERN SLAVERY IN PACIFIC SUPPLY CHAINS OF CANNED TUNA
All industries should be held accountable for the way they treat and protect their employees. The Business & Human Rights Resource Centre gives us an…
LACK OF TRAFFICKING CONVICTIONS AND TRAININGS HAVE BLUNTED BRITAIN’S ANTI-SLAVERY RESPONSE
The obstacles we encounter here in the United States, with laws that vary by jurisdiction, and enforcement and interpretations of those laws being even more…
SOURCE COUNTRY CONDITIONS IMPACT DESTINATION COUNTRY EXPLOITATION
In order to fully understand the ways survivors experience their exploitation and the ways traffickers defraud and coerce victims from other nations, we have to…
COLLECTIVE LIBERTY SELECTED FOR MASSCHALLENGE TEXAS IN AUSTIN 2019 ACCELERATOR
Collective Liberty joins MassChallenge’s global network of startups Austin, TX, May 15, 2019 – Yesterday, Collective Liberty was selected to participate in the MassChallenge Texas in…
RENATE: OUR WORK WITH NORDIC MODEL COUNTRIES AND EU
Our CEO was in Sweden this past week with the RENATE network of survivor support agencies. As a group, throughout the week, we discussed the…
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND COMBATING HUMAN TRAFFICKING WITH FINANCIAL CRIMES
Excellent conversation at our innovation panel on AI and combatting Human trafficking with Financial Crimes. Love the ACAMS crowd, and look forward to collaborating for the next…
U.S. Department Of Transportation Advisory Committee On Human Trafficking Meeting
Today we are at the U.S. Department of Transportation Advisory Committee on Human Trafficking meeting. The investment from the transportation sector in developing a concerted anti-trafficking approach…
COLLECTIVE LIBERTY ANTI-TRAFFICKING EXPERTISE AND ROBERT KRAFT
Did you catch our CEO Rochelle Keyhan on NBC News national Nightly News broadcast last night? If not – watch the segment below. Soon after our team trained Jupiter…
COLLECTIVE LIBERTY ANTI-TRAFFICKING EXPERTISE AND ROBERT KRAFT
Did you catch our CEO Rochelle Keyhan on NBC News national Nightly News broadcast last night? If not – watch the segment below. Soon after our team trained Jupiter…
In The Press: Advocates Say Bay Area Set Precedent In Florida For Tackling Sex Trafficking
Recent high profile illicit massage parlor investigations have renewed attention to law enforcement efforts to focus on penalizing traffickers in an attempt to eliminate exploitation…
PORTUGAL TACKLES LABOR TRAFFICKING ON FARMS BUT RESOURCES SCARCE
Models of behavior used by traffickers to recruit and exploit victims are almost identical across the world. Agricultural labor traffickers in Portugal, for example, fraudulently…
Is R. Kelly A Human Trafficker?
For most of us, human trafficking conjures images of young women being kidnapped by traffickers like in the movie Taken. But, for survivors of R.…
St. Josephine Bakhita, Patron Saint of Sudan and human trafficking survivors
Today, February 8, is the International Day of Prayer for Victims of Human Trafficking. It is also the feast day of St. Josephine Bakhita, the…
Atlanta’s Traffickers Thrive on Event-based (like Superbowl) buyers
It’s the time of year where media are talking about how trafficking increases around the Superbowl, and anti-trafficking NGOs are “myth-busting” this fact and asking…