January is Human Trafficking Awareness Month. Local responder At:project and partners are using this opportunity to remind the Central Oregon community that exploitation and human trafficking ...

Oregon cannabis operators and their employees are now required to report suspected instances of human trafficking to the state, or potentially face legal consequences.

In 2023, the National Human Trafficking Hotline in Oregon received 461 reports, 166 of which were received from victims or survivors of human trafficking. Of those, 132 cases were identified, and ...

Human trafficking starts in a community and can be stopped by a community. The most recent data in Oregon, from October 2018 to October 2019, showed there were 750 reported cases.

Portland has become a center for human trafficking for several reason -- inclduing location, lax laws and legal sex industry, said Keith Bickford, a Multnomah County sheriff's detective who heads ...

SALEM, Ore. — In 2007, the Oregon Legislature passed a bill promoted by then Sen. Kate Brown making it crime to force ... “Human trafficking includes both sex trafficking and labor ...

Human trafficking a major problem in Southern Oregon’s illegal cannabis industry, according to officials By Roman Battaglia ( Jefferson Public Radio ) June 16, 2022 7:49 p.m.

An allegation of human trafficking followed multiple 911 hang-up calls that came from a property suspected of hosting an illegal cannabis farm, as well as a from an unnamed source. Josephine ...

An arrest was made in a human trafficking case that began in San Joaquin and Stanislaus counties and ended across the state line in Oregon. The mother of a 15-year-old Modesto girl contacted ...

A woman who says she was the victim of sex trafficking in 2012 and 2013 at multiple hotels in Oregon and Washington is suing six major hotel chains in federal court, saying they neglected ...