Hawaii Lawmakers To Introduce Seven New Human Trafficking Bills

Sara Lin/Civil Beat

What a difference a year makes.

Lawmakers had such lackluster interest in human trafficking last year that at one point it looked like Hawaii would go another year as one of just four states without a human trafficking statute. It was a huge victory when advocates last session managed to get the Legislature to pass a labor trafficking law.

This year legislators are chomping at the bit, showing a lot of interest in seven new trafficking-related bills. One of them involves bringing the human trafficking discussion into the mainstream in a big way: introducing preventive education in Hawaii's public schools.

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