Human Trafficking Intervention

The Office of Human Trafficking Intervention works with all FDJJ program areas to identify potential human trafficking victims.

Director of Human Trafficking Intervention

2737 Centerview Drive
Suite 3200
Tallahassee,
FL 32399

(850) 717-2714

Florida Abuse Hotline (trafficking is considered a form of child/adult abuse in Florida and is investigated as such)

Phone: 1-800-96-ABUSE (22873)

Child (under age 18) victims

Florida Human Trafficking Hotline (to report potential trafficking to Florida law enforcement)

1-855-FLA-SAFE (1-855-352-7233)

National Human Trafficking Hotline

Phone: 888-373-7888

Human Trafficking is the exploitation of individuals for financial gain. Human trafficking is a crime under Florida, federal, and international law.

The federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 defines “severe forms of trafficking in persons” as:

Sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such an act has not attained 18 years of age; or
The recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery.

There are 3 main populations of victims:

Children (individuals under age 18) involved in the commercial sex industry, also known as commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC)
Adults (individuals aged 18 and over) involved in the commercial sex industry by force, fraud, or coercion
Children and adults performing labor and/or services by force, fraud, or coercion

Victims in Florida are trafficked for many purposes, including: