USF’s Trafficking in Persons Risk to Resilience Research Lab has received nearly $3 million in federal funding to build on its efforts to combat human trafficking. Around $1.85 million will go toward expanding the BRIGHT Network, a centralized, secure platform that allows anti-trafficking professionals to coordinate resources. Law enforcement personnel and social workers can use the platform as they seek to help survivors of labor and sex trafficking.
“It is helping us paint a more complete picture of the human trafficking situation in the greater Tampa Bay region,” says researcher Shelly Wagers about the BRIGHT Network. “Federal support will now allow us to do the same throughout Florida.” Nearly $1 million will go toward development and operation of a statewide human trafficking data repository.
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