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This awardee has received supplemental funding. This award detail page includes information about the supplemental awards but the information about the original award is unavailable.
Award Information
Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2009, $200,000)
Under this award, the city of Austin will further develop and operate a victim centered human trafficking task force in conjunction with the U.S. Attorney's Office, Federal law enforcement, and their Office for Victims of Crime Human Trafficking Services provider to identify and rescue victims of human trafficking and to proactively investigate human trafficking and prosecute traffickers. The primary goal of this program is to identify and rescue foreign victims of trafficking through a victim centered, proactive investigation strategy. The secondary goal is the interdiction of trafficking and the successful prosecution of traffickers.
The city of Austin, through the police department, has the following three goals for their anti-human trafficking efforts: 1) increase identification of trafficking victims through proactive law
enforcement tactics; 2) ensure victim safety and access to needed services; and 3)increase the successful prosecution of human traffickers.
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