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Recruiting Lawyers to Help Trafficking Survivors
Kevin M. Ryan, President and CEO, Covenant House
Huffington Post IMPACT Blog
Posted: 06/18/2014 11:57 am EDT Updated: 06/18/2014 11:59 am EDT
With the passage of New Jersey’s exemplary new law to fight human trafficking, state officials expect great growth in the need for lawyers to represent survivors. So Assistant Attorney General Tracy Thompson joined with the head of a survivors advocacy group to train more than two dozen attorneys recently. They were interested in serving as pro bono (free) lawyers to victims of sex or labor trafficking, and they were there to learn about what legal services they might need to provide.
I applaud these efforts and others like them. They are proof that it takes an entire community — lawyers, police officers, emergency medical technicians, social workers and regular citizens — to create a safety net to lift up our neighbors, many of them minors, who have survived being trafficked…

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Covenant House @CovenantHouse • Jun 19
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Covenant House @CovenantHouse • Jun 19
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