California Attorney General Kamala Harris is backing legislation. This continues a decade-long bid to coordinate law enforcement agencies’ responses to human trafficking. Harris’s move will be welcomed by the growing number of people advocating for the eradication of human trafficking, such as Truckers Against Trafficking.
According to the article from Sacramento-based Capradio.org:
“Attorney General Harris announced March 9 that she supports AB1731 by former Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins of San Diego.”
“Human trafficking is one of the world’s most heinous and profitable criminal enterprises,” Harris said. “This legislation combats human trafficking by ensuring coordination between a wide range of agencies and partners. I applaud Speaker Emeritus Atkins for fighting this abhorrent crime.”
The bill creates a “permanent interagency task force led by the state Department of Justice.”
Harris long railed against human trafficking. As San Francisco’s district attorney in 2006, she sponsored an earlier bill that outlawed sex and labor trafficking. That measure also allowed restitution for trafficking victims and created a temporary group to report on the problem in California.
To learn how people with CDL trucking jobs are standing up against human trafficking in a big way, read Drive My Way’s feature about Truckers Against Trafficking.
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