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Uniting to PREVENT Human Trafficking & BRING Hope to Survivors

Legislative Focus

Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2025 (TVPRA)  (H.R. 1144): This bill builds on the foundational, landmark Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA) designed to prevent modern-day slavery, protect victims, and enhance civil and criminal penalties against traffickers. Unfortunately, the TVPA has not been reauthorized for several years.
 
The Frederick Douglass TVPRA would reauthorize both domestic and international provisions of the last TVPRA along with International Megan’s Law requiring advanced notification of traveling sex offenders. The bill also provides for education prevention grants serving a high-intensity child sex trafficking area or an area with significant child labor trafficking, along with offering wrap-around social services and education to prevent child trafficking through social services support for the attainment of life-skills, employment, and education necessary to achieve self-sufficiency.

H.R. 1144 also would support and strengthen programs to end human trafficking abroad. Finally, it would require the TIP Report from the State Department to include organ harvesting in its reporting and would require that a printed hard copy of the report be available to the public.
TRAFFICKING SURVIVORS RELIEF ACT SIGNED INTO LAW JANUARY 23, 2026!
Trafficking Survivors Relief Act of 2025 (H.R. 1379): A person being trafficked for labor or sex often is trapped in a cycle of exploitation. They are forced by their traffickers to commit crimes, and historically they have faced arrest, conviction and incarceration with no attention being given to their circumstances.
 
H.R. 1379 takes mitigating circumstances under consideration and would enable survivors’ criminal records to be vacated or arrests to be expunged for nonviolent crimes such as financial fraud, drug-related offenses, and identity theft.
Kids Online Safety Act (S. 1748): The internet, devices, and applications are tools with great benefits and tremendous risks, including sexual exploitation and human trafficking. Over the years, much has been promised and little has been done by technology companies to protect children from predators on the internet.
 
S. 1748 would hold tech companies accountable for duty of care on their platforms. It also would give tools to parents and children, while increasing transparency so children may be safe in their virtual spaces.

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