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 your property? Many landlords clearly do not think so. At Collective Liberty, we regularly monitor local news throughout North America to watch how trafficking and related exploitation issues are…
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 well-known members of our communities who use their names and power to control and exploit victims. We all know the case of famous singer R. Kelly, who for decades exploited…
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 to be a huge transit site for domestic trafficking: at least 20% of the US national trafficking victims travel through Texas at some point. Texas is a state that has every type of…
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 from individual cases to the whole system, we see an increased understanding of how trafficking is thriving in our country, how interconnected it is at all levels, and what we…
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 2017, Gaetz was the only member of Congress to vote against a law that gave the federal government more power and money to fight human trafficking. Today, Gaetz is at…
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 create ground-breaking, data-driven approaches that work. By encouraging the existing human trafficking community and other stakeholders to think in new and innovative ways, we address, disrupt and put an end…
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 create ground-breaking, data-driven approaches that work. By encouraging the existing human trafficking community and other stakeholders to think in new and innovative ways, we address, disrupt and put an end…
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 create ground-breaking, data-driven approaches that work. By encouraging the existing human trafficking community and other stakeholders to think in new and innovative ways, we address, disrupt and put an end…
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 many states use innovative technology and intel reports to arrest traffickers and buyers. In 2020, our partners nearly DOUBLED the number of traffickers arrested the previous year, with investigations that…
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 manner possible. Our work is both for and guided by survivors at the center of every step we take. We work closely with sex and labor trafficking survivors from trainings…