A statewide report from the University of South Florida's Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Lab estimates that more than 700,000 ...

A new report shows Florida has one of the highest rates of human trafficking in the country. WMNF's Chris Young has more.

A map in the report shows Orange and other Central Florida counties are among the highest in the state for commercial sex ...

Researchers at the University of South Florida estimate there were 200,000 victims of sex trafficking in the state in 2024. ...

Even though a state-designated lab had been compiling data on human trafficking since it was established in 2019, the report ...

Tampa Bay task force rescues children from human trafficking TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A first-of-its-kind report from the ...

Gabrielle Triplett lived the life of a slave, being sold for sex by a so-called boyfriend who wound up shooting and almost ...

A report by the Florida Legislature's research arm found that the number verified cases of children involved in commercial ...

The Florida Highway Heroes initiative is an outreach campaign launched in October 2020 to train 500,000 Florida commercial drivers to identify and report suspected human trafficking.

Officers credit an increase in education and awareness that led to 38 arrests related to human trafficking in Central Florida last year. That's more than quadruple the amount from the previous year.

Florida now ranks third in the country with 59 active human trafficking cases in federal court last year, according to the report. “More victims are being identified, more cases are being worked on.

human trafficking is the largest. growing criminal enterprise in the world. i watch two people being murdered who tried to help me. my first instinct was to go back and get a gun and kill him.