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 are the future of criminal justice approaches toward human trafficking, ensuring offender-focused data collection and intelligence analysis and supporting the rapid adoption of victim-centered best practices. Of the 74 other…
View detailsDC City Council is hosting a hearing today for over 170 witnesses testifying for an against legalizing the sex trade in the District of Columbia, under DC Bill 318. Many sex workers are sharing their stories of marginalization, and how criminalization is an impediment to their housing and economic stability. Many trafficking survivors are testifying to…
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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 presented on human traffickers’ financial crimes and fraudulent behavior at the conference on Monday to a standing room only filled room of passionate, global investigators from 4 separate continents. On…
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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 from across Texas, we trained 30+ officers and prosecutors from 20 US jurisdiction (18 across the state of Texas), on national best practices for eradicating human trafficking. This included sections…
View detailsDid 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 – farms where people were responsible for hand cutting each quarter? Our demand for cheap goods is a contributing factor to the exploitation in the poultry processing industry. Did you…
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“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 traffickers are held accountable and our communities become inhospitable to them.” –Rochelle Keyhan, Former Director of Disruption StrategiesZach Newman, Aurora Colorado Channel 9 News Our CEO Rochelle Keyhan’s work is…
View detailsA large part of our work with partners in Europe has been learning the ins and outs of the different partial decriminalization models that exist. Overwhelming our European partners agree that the Equality Model is the most effective in allowing for strong anti trafficking programs while standing with survivors and minimizing harm to sex workers.…
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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 detected 3 separate human trafficking situations that could easily have been overlooked or ignored – and when they notified their human trafficking department – the lead detective showed up for…
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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. A Domestic Workers Bill of Rights Act. was proposed in the Congress by Senator Kamala Harris and Representative Pramila Jayapal. “If it passes into law, the bill could codify the workplace protections…
View detailsBack 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 accountable. 5 months later and he has been arrested for human trafficking. We are invigorated to see multiple powerful men being held accountable for sex trafficking and exploiting women. Behavior…
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