By Tara Siler, KQED News Fix/The California Report
Up to 1 million revelers are expected to flood the Bay Area this week leading up to Sunday’s Super Bowl in Santa Clara. Officials have repeatedly alerted the public to looming traffic nightmares — but law enforcement officials have been issuing another alert.
They say apart from the crowds and frenzied fun, something darker will be going on: Sex traffickers will be trying to cash in on the annual bash.
Read the complete story at KQED News Fix/The California Report. For more information on the issue of human trafficking, read the 2012 San Francisco Public Press Special Report Force, Fraud and Coercion, Human Trafficking in the Bay Area.
