Trump HHS calls for a “failed” national human trafficking hotline for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
A group of anti-human trafficking advocates called the “Safe House Project” has urged Trump administration Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reformed the National Trafficking Hotline.
Hotline, Performed by HHSIt was launched in 2007 to provide 24/7 help to victims of human trafficking.
According to the Safe House Project, the hotline “lost all credibility” as it offers victims a variety of services, including a network of shelters, and has achieved its goal of simply ending trafficking. Not there.
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After Kennedy Cleared the committee vote on Tuesday.one step closer to confirming him, the nonprofit said, “Our country is in desperate need of leadership to restore it to meet its purpose of identifying victims of human trafficking. “We have issued a statement celebrating the steps: helping to bring prompt justice from their traffickers and to those who abuse and victimize hopeless and vulnerable people.”
Along with the Government Efficiency Bureau Government mission to reduce wasteAccording to the Safe House Project, HHS can reform its hotline to save tax dollar funds and save more lives at the same time.
“U.S. taxpayers funded the National Trafficking Hotline, but in reality they failed,” Christawells, CEO of the SafeHouse Project, told Fox News Digital.
Wells argued that people calling the hotline often have to wait more than 45 minutes, and many people were hanging before reporting trafficking cases. She also said that in many cases, hotline staff have failed to return calls or share tips with law enforcement.
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If he is confirmed by the Senate, Wells said Kennedy has a “amazing opportunity” to save thousands of lives by moving quickly to increase the efficiency of the hotline.
“Again, the national human trafficking hotline could save thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of lives,” she continued. Hotline, it’s really important that the current administration prioritizes and actually holds the current hotline.. ”
Instead of the current hotline, Wells is urging HHS to utilize the latest technology. Mobile phone apps and AI – Create a new system “fast, practical and easy to use”.
Wells believes that after conducting extensive research in law enforcement and related NGOs, the government can go any further and create new systems using the latest technology that spends taxes to achieve more. He said.
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“When you’re leveraging technology, you’re really creating efficiency on scale and really increasing scale,” she said. I think we can use the dollars currently spent on hotlines across the country more effectively and see more effective results. ”
Wells said Trump administration “We have already shown encouraging encouraging people to tackle trafficking, but we want to make sure that this is their number one priority and that the right actions are taken to pull victims out of the shadows. To increase reports and increase law enforcement and prosecutions for human traffickers and buyers.”
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“Human trafficking is happening around us. As community members, we have the opportunity to identify and respond to human trafficking. New tools are really essential to making sure that happens.” She continued. “This idea that there is an appropriate reporting mechanism and whenever you’re ‘looking at something, you’re saying something’, trafficking infiltrates and is not detected is no longer a reality. ”
“In reality, we can see more and empower lawmakers with more effective data to create more effective policies. A more robust reporting mechanism is in America. It can be brought to the goal of eradicating human trafficking.”