The letter NCJW sent to City Council was written in support of Two Councilwomen (Tunua Thrash-Ntuk of District 8 and Joni Ricks-Oddie of District 9) who proposed a “strategic framework” to fight human trafficking but also broadly address public safety and public health.

The framework is called REACT. The R.E.A.C.T. framework was informed by community engagement and survivor testimony, and it builds upon the City’s existing programs while identifying opportunities to strengthen coordination, data collection, and regional collaboration. The framework’s emphasis on enhanced reporting, community voice, and economic investment reflects the lived realities we see and the solutions our community has consistently called for. These two councilwomen have a lot of public prostitution on their district streets and want funding to combat better what is evident - the trafficking of young women! This is to be applauded because as I note in my letter NCJW's Human Trafficking Outreach Project came into existence thanks to Maya Paley, then VP of Advocacy for NCJWLA when the law (passed in 2012) had no teeth in it to fund enforcement. When the penalties are not enforced, the lack of  financial support has remained a stumbling block. Letter sent to City Council.