Last month, the City of Sacramento announced the release of the results of a pivotal study intended to determine the prevalence of sex trafficking in Sacramento County.
Funded by the California Department of Justice through Community Against Sexual Harm (CASH), this project involves a partnership between CASH, RTI International, the Institute for Social Research at Sacramento State University, and a local Survivor Advisory Council (SAC) composed of survivors of sex trafficking.
According to the study, there were more than 13,000 sex trafficking victims in Sacramento County between 2015 and 2020.
This project provided the first estimate of sex trafficking in Sacramento County and will be used to establish a better understanding of the lived experiences of sex trafficking survivors as well as creating meaningful prevention, identification, and intervention policies and strategies to address future instances of trafficking.
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