- This is the ECPAT-USA Anti-Trafficking Hotel Checklist: This is the list of red-flags we want to build a system for hotels to have automatically electronically monitored and reported when they occur so that Law Enforcement can make a choice about whether to pursue a search warrant or not. This system is mentioned in our 3-Page Mission Brief.
- Face Recognition Cameras for Age and Gender: These can be used at hotels to monitor age disparity and gender of people entering the hallways where the room doors are. Age disparity and multiple other adults entering from outside the parking lot is a red-flag mentioned in the ECPAT document.
- Advocate for Victims: Sex Trafficking is happening as early as elementary school and predominantly in middle and high schools. If you think this doesn’t happen in your neighborhood, think again.
- Ricchio Case: Human Trafficking Survivor Settles Lawsuit Against Motel Where She Was Held Captive.
- Ricchio’s Attorneys: WilmerHale Team Sets Standard for Liability in Human Trafficking Cases With Win for Victimized Client
- Ricchio Intervenor-Plaintiff: The Indemnity Company makes their argument as to their lack of liability.
- Doe v. Choice Hotels International, Inc., No. 20-11764 (11th Cir. 2021): Plaintiffs, four sex trafficking victims, filed suit against numerous defendants within the hotel industry for violations of the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA), specifically 18 U.S.C. 1595(a), and Georgia state law. The district court held that plaintiffs failed to plausibly allege claims against three hotel franchisors: Choice Hotels, Wyndham Hotels, and Microtel Inn & Suites.
- Appellant’s Consolidated Brief (from above): This is the plaintiffs-appellants consolidated brief.
- Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC): Children are often enticed into sexual exploitation with the promise of something of value to themselves or another person. Traffickers offer love, safety, food, shelter, clothing, money and other incentives. Shockingly, across the nation, the average age of entry for victims of exploitation of this type is 12-14 years old. In San Diego County, the average age of entry is 16 years old.
- The Travel Industry on Trial: The “State of the Art” of Human Trafficking Awareness and the Impact of Third-Party Civil Cases.
- No Vacancy for Human Traffickers: Budget motel operators provide rooms at low cost and on an hourly basis. This is a reality that is unlikely to change. Leaders and security professionals working against human trafficking should aim at making these businesses partners in the fight against sex trafficking in a way that is workable with their business model and transforming them into the last line of defense to prevent incidences of sex trafficking.
- No Rest for the Wicked: Civil Liability Against Hotels in Cases of Sex Trafficking.
- Anti-Trafficking Review: Special Issue – Technology, Anti-Trafficking, and Speculative Futures. There is a bit of argumentation in support of sex work as legitimate work, and I put it in here so that people can see some of the arguments.
- MIT Lincoln Laboratory: Technology to fight trafficking.
- Video API Platform by Eagle Eye Networks: Use the API to possibly analyze video from Budget Motels. 80% of trafficking occurs in Budget.
- TraffickCam.com: Database of hotel pictures that you can add to using the app so that pictures of women can be compared with the details in the rooms of known locations.
- The Guy who made TrafficCam.com: Part of the GW AI Program.
- Google Search: Signs of Trafficking at Hotels.
- Hotel Liability: For Knowledge of Human Trafficking.
- Axxess Industries: Smart Hotel Technology from trackable DND System to Room Presence System and more. Can be integrated.
- Data Analysis Platforms: A Comparison between Palantir and Splunk.
- ASIS Convergence Article: An article about convergence between physical security, cybersecurity and business continuity.
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