By Ryan Levi, KQED News Fix
There were 499 reported cases of human trafficking in San Francisco last year, according to a report by the Mayor’s Task Force on Anti-Human Trafficking released Friday.
“Human trafficking is happening here in San Francisco,” said Minouche Kandel, the director of women’s policy at the San Francisco Department on the Status of Women. “A lot of people think of human trafficking as a problem that happens in other countries and developing countries, but it’s happening right here in our backyard.”
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For more information on human trafficking, read the San Francisco Public Press special report, “Force, Fraud, Coercion”: Human Trafficking in the Bay Area.
