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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.
Further arguments by certain opponents claimed the permit would allow for excavation of burial sites and the taking of human remains, although these arguments failed to take into consideration that the permit only allowed for artifacts without context to be recovered and disturbance of human remains is already a felony under F.S. 872.05.
Human trafficking in Florida is the illegal trade of human beings for sexual exploitation or forced labor as it occurs in the state of Florida. After California and New York, Florida has the most human trafficking cases in the United States. [1] Florida has had cases of sex trafficking, domestic servitude, and forced labor. [2]
Florida Chamber Safety Council urges all companies to provide training for employees to spot and report human trafficking, a modern form of slavery.
The Trafficking Victims Protection Act was renewed in 2003, 2006, 2008 (when it was renamed the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008). The law lapsed in 2011. In 2013, the entirety of the Trafficking Victims Protection was attached as an amendment to the Violence Against Women Act and passed. [2]
[8] Human trafficking is defined by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime as “the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or ...
Human trafficking is the modern form of slavery, with illegal smuggling and trading of people, for forced labour or sexual exploitation. Trafficking is officially defined as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, or receipt of persons by means of coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, or abuse of power of a position of vulnerability for the purpose of exploitation.
A Florida elementary school principal was among more than a dozen people arrested in a recent sex trafficking sting, which also saw two teen girls rescued.