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Version 82 · Passed Senate without amendment · Dec 20, 2012
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Expresses support for: (1) law enforcement agency efforts to provide training to law enforcement agents on how to investigate and prosecute cases of sex trafficking and how to identify and rescue trafficking victims; and (2) trafficking victim services provided by the federal, state, and local governments and non-profit and faith-based organizations, including medical, legal, mental health, housing, and other social services.
Calls on Village Voice Media Holdings, LLC to act as a responsible global citizen and immediately eliminate the "adult entertainment" section of the classified advertising website Backpage.com to terminate the website's facilitation of online sex trafficking.
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Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT] · D–CT
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Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S8319-8320)
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent.(text: CR S8319-8320)
Senate Committee on the Judiciary discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S8318-8320)
Senate Committee on the Judiciary discharged by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S8318-8320)
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2736-2737)
Introduced in Senate
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