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8.6 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) of 1990 8.7 Chapter 872.05-- Unmarked Human Burials (Florida Statutes, Title XLVI, Offenses Concerning Dead Bodies and Graves) 9 References
Penalties for a first offense could originally reach 12 months imprisonment and a $100,000 fine. The statute was amended in 2022 to increase the penalty for a first conviction for trafficking Native American human remains from 12 months imprisonment to one year and one day (a felony) and for a subsequent conviction from five years to ten years.
Florida Chamber Safety Council urges all companies to provide training for employees to spot and report human trafficking, a modern form of slavery.
Also Florida's tourism industry has also helped make the state a prime target for human traffickers. Concerted efforts have led to the freeing of thousands of slaves in recent years. [3] The National Human Trafficking Resource Center reported receiving 1,518 calls and emails in 2015 about human trafficking in Florida. [4]
The Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons was established in October 2001 as a result of the passing of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000.This enabling legislation required the President to create a bureau within the State Department to specifically address human trafficking and exploitation on all levels and to take legal action against perpetrators.
Florida is cracking down on massage parlors as a way to stop sex work and combat human trafficking.
This blend of two once separated worlds also involved the forced removal of Native American women and girls out of their homes on reservations, and into the sex trade. [8] With such a large market of sex buyers that the neighboring cities provided, sex traffickers saw an opportunity to make a large income off of the surplus of vulnerable women ...
A Florida elementary school principal was among more than a dozen people arrested in a sex trafficking sting, which also saw two teen girls rescued. Principal among 18 arrested in Florida sex ...