Beyond the Basics: Advancing Human Trafficking Investigations and Prosecutions

This is a free, in-person, 2.5-day advanced human trafficking training is for law enforcement and prosecutors to provide innovative, practical, and trauma-informed strategies to enhance victim-centered responses, and offender-focused investigations and prosecutions. This course is highly interactive and scenario-based.

This training will provide information on—

• how traffickers recruit victims from within the criminal justice system,
• methods to investigate sex trafficking in a post-Backpage world,
• investigative strategies that do not rely on victim testimony to identify evidence of labor and sex trafficking,
• trauma-informed interview techniques,
• countering witness intimidation and evidence tampering,
• assessing culpability of victims who may also appear to be potential suspects,
• alternative charges to consider to increase the likelihood of successful prosecution of co-occurring crimes,
• confronting common defenses, and 
• the value of expert testimony.