CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. - This week, Tennessee took three major steps forward toward creating a slave-free state with Governor Bill Haslam’s signing of three important laws.
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The Tennessee Human Trafficking Resource Center Hotline Act establishes within the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) a state hotline for human trafficking victims and tipsters and makes provision for posting the hotline number in establishments within key industries.
End Slavery Tennessee Director Derri Smith said, “We who devote our lives to seeing the end of human trafficking and slavery in our state are encouraged by this visible progress. It was the hard work and collaborative efforts of law enforcement, legislators and nonprofit organizations, like End Slavery Tennessee, that brought us to this point. And it is exciting to see TBI freed to focus more resources on this tragic and fast-growing crime. This collaborative approach will help us reach this and future milestones in the march to re-establish Tennessee as a slave-free state.”
About End Slavery Tennessee End Slavery Tennessee is on a volunteer-powered mission to foster slave-free communities through prevention, education and community engagement. This grassroots movement is a local expression of the International Teams outreach to vulnerable people around the world. Derri Smith is director of both End Slavery Tennessee and the End Slavery Ministries arm of International Teams, which fields 1,200 workers on 210 teams in 66 countries.
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