9th June 2014, Louisiana- Jindal signed into law four pieces to crack down human traffickers, governor signed bills in front of legislators, law enforcement representatives and representatives of anti-human trafficking groups.
Governor joined hands with several organizations like A21 Campaign, it is an international organization that works to fight human trafficking, to protect victims and raise awareness about its underground nature.
The new laws create harsher punishments for those convicted of human trafficking, Penalties for those convicted of purchase of commercial sexual activity are increased with the new laws. A first conviction can result in six months in jail and a $500 fine. A second offense tops out at a $250 fine and up to two years in jail and a third conviction comes with up to $500 in fines and two to four years in jail. If the victim is under 18 years old, the perpetrator faces up to a $50,000 fine and 15 to 50 years in jail. If the victim is under 14, the fine increases to $75,000 maximum and 25 to 50 years in jail.
Governor also placed $250,000 in the state budget to develop and implement a human trafficking training course at the police academy for new recruits and to annually train existing police officers in how to recognize and deal with victims of human trafficking.
These map only reflect cases in which the location of the potential trafficking was known. Some cases may involve more than one location and are not reflected in this map
According to experts, more efforts are required to detection and preventive measures to fight human trafficking and along with the training, an intelligent based approach which effectively crack down the human trafficking is needed, let’s hope technology will be used by several organisations like A21 Campaign to address human trafficking effectively and drastically cases reflected on map reduces.
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