The director of Kentucky’s Center for School Safety applauds legislative efforts to bring more attention to problems associated with human trafficking.   One provision pertains to schools across the Commonwealth.

House bill 524, signed into law last week by Governor Bevin, requires the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to administer a hotline number to be posted in schools. Center for School Safety Director Jon Akers says, students are increasingly breaking the so-called “code of silence.” “With kids talking about it a little bit more and more a friend might be someone who alert officials that their friend or their buddy is being groomed for something like this,” said Akers

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