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Connecticut has a plan to stop child trafficking, families can lead the way

There have been numerous reported instances of trafficking in Hamden and New Haven County over the past year.

Legislation has passed, but without local communities’ taking on the issue, there can’t be much done.

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Activists, students and human trafficking survivors attempt to change Connecticut law

Quinnipiac School of Law held the second installment of its “Understanding Human Trafficking” webinar series. Panelists include third-year QU law student Cynthia Lill, West Hartford State Representative Jillian Gilchrest, human trafficking survivors Sharifa Abdullah and Theresa Rozyn and activist group leaders Ann-Marie Boulay and Leigh Latimer. Screenshot by Emily DiSalvo,

Two survivors of human trafficking, their advocates and a Quinnipiac law student are working to pass an amendment to a Connecticut law that would allow survivors to clear their records of charges and convictions they acquired because they were being trafficked.  The current Connecticut vacatur statute, allows for victims of human trafficking to vacate convictions…