VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — Hotel workers across Virginia are now required to take a training course to spot human trafficking, after a new law went into effect on July 1.
The Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services created the free online course, and now every two years all hotel staff will have to be recertified.
Delegate Shelly Simonds (D-Newport News) has been pushing for this bill since she was elected in 2012.
“I have daughters and I’m a former teacher. I know how entrapped, especially women can get, there are so many dangers out there in terms of drug addiction and [sexual] coercion can happen. We just need to make sure everyone in the community knows the plays and knows the ploys that these traffickers and these dangerous people are using on our young people.”
Probably all of us should take this course. ABN
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