Articles Tagged: Human Trafficking

Challenge those oversimplified platitudes and you’re a racist, a misogynist, a xenophobe, a climate denier, and a bigot.

Criminal penalties increase for several charges that involve Iowa’s most vulnerable — pregnant women and children.

Gov. Kim Reynolds signed Senate File 513 into law Tuesday, moving motor vehicle enforcement duties under the jurisdiction of the Department of Public Safety.

DES MOINES — The Iowa Businesses Against Trafficking initiative is one of three finalists for a national award. The program, …

Chains Interrupted, a non-profit that works to combat human trafficking in Iowa, has announced it is shifting its focus to work with children and youth.

A Cedar Rapids woman who has spent more than eight years volunteering her time to fight human trafficking was honored Thursday with an Outstanding Anti-Trafficking Service Award from the Iowa Network Against Human Trafficking.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An judge on Friday set a hearing for January to consider whether to order prison for an 18-year-old sex-trafficking victim in Iowa who killed her rapist and pleaded guilty last year to involuntary manslaughter and willful injury.

A teenage human trafficking victim who was initially charged with first-degree murder after she stabbed her accused rapist to death was sentenced Tuesday in an Iowa court to five years of closely supervised probation and ordered to pay $150,000 restitution to the man’s family.

Reports increasing as hotel employees, others, learn what to look for

Erik Helland, the governor’s appointee to the State Public Employment Relations Board, failed to earn Senate confirmation earlier this year

Chains Interrupted, a Cedar Rapids-based non-profit dedicated to fighting human trafficking, will host an awareness event in which participants are invited to pour red sand into the cracks in the sidewalk, symbolizing the people who fall through the cracks of human trafficking.

Also, the state records a record number of new business registrations in the recent state budget year

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In Iowa, 12 federal, state and local law enforcement agencies in Iowa conducted 10 operations throughout the state, during which officers executed 10 search warrants, identified five businesses involved in sex trafficking, made 11 arrests and seized a large quantity of cash.