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The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) is the lead law enforcement agency, in partnership with federal, state, county and local law enforcement and social service agencies and victim service providers, is committed to ending human trafficking in all its forms in Los Angeles County, with a keen focus on commercially sexually exploited children. LASD personnel will apply prevention and intervention strategies and a victim-centered approach to protect the most vulnerable segment of our population while aggressively pursuing justice to the fullest extent of the law against those individuals and groups responsible.

Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) is the largest investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security. HSI Special Agents investigate a wide range of transnational criminal organizations that exploit America’s travel, trade, and financial systems. As part of their portfolio, HSI is the lead law enforcement agency responsible for combatting international human trafficking. HSI has developed a number of successful initiatives that focus on attacking the infrastructure that supports trafficking organizations, as well as the assets derived from these criminal activities. This might include seizing currency, property, weapons and vehicles—hitting the trafficking organizations where it hurts by targeting their assets. HSI recognizes the severe consequences of human trafficking continue even after the perpetrators have been arrested and held accountable. HSI’s victim assistance program helps to coordinate services in support of human trafficking victims.

Saving Innocence is a Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization with a mission to support and empower children and adults impacted by human trafficking by disrupting cycles of abuse and confronting exploitation through strategic partnerships and trauma-responsive education, advocacy, and systems of care. Saving Innocence coordinates shelter, clothing, food, medical and mental health care, and ongoing empowerment and advocacy support for survivors of human trafficking. Saving Innocence’s approach centers on providing trauma-informed, victim-centered, and responsive care through a model of service provision specifically designed to ensure each survivor is provided with services to fit their unique needs, experiences, and background. Case Managers and Advocates prioritize treating survivors with care, compassion, and empower them to take control of their own service plan.

The Department of Justice and the United States Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California (USAO-CDCA) are committed to investigating and prosecuting all types of Human Trafficking offenses. Human trafficking encompasses a wide variety of criminal conduct involving the exploitation of minor and adult victims who are compelled to engage in sex and/or labor. The USAO-CDCA works closely with federal, state, and local law enforcement authorities to investigate and prosecute both sex and labor trafficking cases. The USAO-CDCA is committed to a victim-centered approach to human trafficking, partnering with non-governmental organizations to ensure that trafficking victims receive the support, trauma recovery and outreach services they need, while prosecuting pimps, those who exploit children and labor traffickers to the fullest extent authorized by Congress and the law.