The 2024 fentanyl seizures represent over 367 million deadly doses. *
Senator Rick Scott and Senator Ron Johnson introduced the Stop Human Trafficking of Unaccompanied Migrant Children Act to crack down on the human trafficking of unaccompanied migrant children through comprehensive vetting procedures of sponsors, regular monitoring and updates on the child’s well-being. Last August, a DHS Inspector General Report revealed that President Biden’s DHS had lost track of more than 320,000 unaccompanied migrant children who crossed the border into the United States, putting these children “at risk of sex trafficking, forced labor and other forms of exploitation.”
Senator Rick Scott said, “It is terrifying to think that over 300,000 young, innocent children have been brought into this nation, potentially forced into unsafe conditions and at risk for human trafficking. As a parent or grandparent, it’s unimaginable to think what might happen to these children, and that former president Joe Biden allowed this to happen by completely dismantling our immigration system and opening our southern border, completely ignoring the consequences or the tolls on human life. Thank God President Trump is in office and has already made incredible strides to secure our border and find the thousands of migrant children unaccounted for and at risk under Joe Biden. Our bill, the Stop Human Trafficking of Unaccompanied Migrant Children Act, will support President Trump’s actions by making critical changes to fix Biden’s broken process and protect innocent children from being trafficked in our nation.”
Senator Ron Johnson said, “The Biden administration’s open border policies resulted in an explosion of unaccompanied migrant children arriving at our southern border. Biden’s HHS then compounded this lunacy by making a mockery of its duty to ensure these children were placed with properly vetted sponsors who would ensure their safety. In just the first two years of the Biden administration, HHS lost track of over 85,000 children with many of them being exploited for labor and even sex trafficking. We need to fix our broken immigration system to reduce the number of unaccompanied children entering the country illegally. But those that do come here need to be cared for appropriately, and this legislation would ensure that HHS thoroughly vet sponsors before releasing any children and keep track of them post release.”
President Donald Trump signed the Laken Riley Act into law on Wednesday, marking the first piece of legislation to become law in his second administration.
“This horrific atrocity should never have been allowed to happen,” Trump told reporters ahead of signing the legislation. “And as president, I’m fighting every single day to ensure that such a tragedy never happens again.”
The measure, which advanced through the House and Senate in January, directs Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to detain illegal immigrants arrested or charged with theft-related crimes, or those accused of assaulting a police officer.
January 26-February 1, 2025, we’ll be raising awareness about school choice through tens of thousands of events with schools, organizations, and parents around the country.
The results are in! 60% of U.S. parents considered sending their children to a different school last year. Dive into this year’s survey results to get a better look at what factors are driving these decisions.
The disappearance of 7-year-old Patrick Alford while in foster care in Brooklyn – 15 years ago today – was one of the highest-profile missing child cases in New York City since the abduction of Etan Patz.
When Patrick simply vanished while taking the trash out with his foster mother, his disappearance touched off a massive investigation, with detectives conducting 14,000 interviews, searching 9,000 apartments and investigating hundreds, if not thousands, of tips.
Patrick’s case is still being actively investigated, and detectives will be handing out flyers today in the Spring Creek Towers community where Patrick was last seen, a sprawling collection of 46 high-rise brick apartment buildings on 153 acres. When he vanished on Jan. 22, 2010, Patrick and his younger sister had been briefly living there with their foster mother.
SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Hive, a leading provider of cloud-based AI solutions including content moderation models used by hundreds of leading online communities, today announced a partnership with the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), a UK-based nonprofit dedicated to stopping child sexual abuse online.
“During 2024, KICK processed approximately 5 billion chat messages and 900 million frames of livestreamed video through Hive’s model. This enabled us to enhance our existing real-time moderation capabilities and scale our overall safety program”
As part of the partnership, Hive will integrate IWF datasets into its content moderation offering for all customers using Hive’s models to analyze text in messages or overlaid on video and images. The IWF datasets include the IWF’s URL List, a continuously updated list averaging more than 8,000 webpages a day with confirmed images and videos of child sexual abuse material (CSAM), as well as the IWF Keywords List, a unique list of words, phrases, and codes offenders may use to conceal child sexual abuse imagery on legitimate networks and platforms. Users of Hive’s video and image moderation APIs who are or become IWF members will also be able to access IWF’s “hashes,” unique digital fingerprints of millions of known child sexual abuse images and videos, to identify criminal content and prevent it from being shared on their platforms.
“With the emergence and accessibility of generative AI technology, it is easier than ever before for bad actors to create and distribute harmful online content, including CSAM,” said Kevin Guo, Co-founder and CEO of Hive. “Hive’s AI models for content moderation provide a scalable way to manage moderation risks generally, and our partnership with the IWF allows us to further expand the role we are playing in specifically helping our customers protect the safety and wellbeing of children.”
Hive’s AI content moderation solution has become trusted by hundreds of online platforms to protect users and human moderators from exposure to sexual content, violence and gore, drugs, hate speech, and other categories of harmful content. Hive’s partnership with the IWF bolsters Hive’s capabilities in helping its customers detect and mitigate CSAM on their platforms through a single integrated API.
A new Tennessee bill could require tattoo artists to get training on recognizing the signs of human trafficking and responding to them.
Tattoos are among the tools traffickers use to assert control over their victims using symbols, names or phrases that brand a person as property, according to Thistle Farms, a Tennessee nonprofit group that works to help women recover and heal from prostitution, human trafficking and addiction.
If approved, the Hope of Ink Act would require all tattoo artists and operators to complete up to a one-hour online or in-person training at no cost in order to obtain a license.
