by Guardian Group | May 15, 2018 | Guardian Group In the News: Watch
Guardian Group is a Bend-based organization that has been fighting sex trafficking online since 2010. Over the past eight years, the nonprofit has offered online sex-trafficking training for hotel workers in Central Oregon and across the country. Watch...
by Berkley Bedell | Apr 26, 2018 | Hospitality Industry & Human Trafficking
We all must choose our battles. Even when you know you’ve chosen the right battle, it’s sometimes a lot harder than you imagined it would be. Case in point, in January of this year, I took a new job where we battle sex trafficking daily and the cowards behind this...
by Berkley Bedell | Nov 15, 2017 | Hospitality Industry & Human Trafficking
What Does The Law Say about Human Trafficking? In 2000, Congress passed The U.S. Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA), the most significant federal human trafficking statute ever passed to address the problem of sex trafficking. Since 2000, new studies and...
by Berkley Bedell | Oct 15, 2017 | Hospitality Industry & Human Trafficking
The Damage of Trafficking Leaves Lasting and Expensive Wounds: Given the tremendous physical, emotional, and economic damage incurred by victims of sex trafficking and their families, many federal and state legislators have recently amended laws to make it...
by Berkley Bedell | Sep 15, 2017 | Hospitality Industry & Human Trafficking
Similar to Federal Law, California’s human trafficking law, CA Penal Code § 236, directly addresses sex trafficking and does not require proof of the use of force, fraud, or coercion in the commission of the crime against minors. But unlike the Federal Law, the CA...
