by pskadmin | Jul 23, 2018 | News
On July 11, 2018, the D.C. Council Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety held a public hearing on the Protection from Sexual Extortion Amendment Act of 2017. This legislation would revise the existing extortion statute to also prohibit sexual extortion or...
by pskadmin | Jul 9, 2018 | News
On June 18, 2018, New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand hosted the National Survivor Network (“NSN”) at the U.S. Capitol, a trafficking survivor leadership program of the Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking (“CAST”), to discuss the ongoing push towards...
by pskadmin | Jul 2, 2018 | News
On June 21, 2018, the DC Council Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety held a public hearing to discuss the Intrafamily Offenses and Anti-Stalking Orders Amendment Act of 2018. This legislation among other things, makes civil protection orders available to sex...
by pskadmin | Jun 25, 2018 | News
In a shocking policy change, the Department of Justice’s Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) recently dealt a significant blow to legal services for survivors of human trafficking. The change, prompted by the Trump administration, denies survivors access to critical...
by pskadmin | Jun 19, 2018 | News
June 18, 2018. The Board of Directors of the Amara Legal Center is pleased to announce that they have named Llamilet Gutierrez as their next Executive Director. The Amara Legal Center is a legal services organization based in Washington, DC. The core mission of the...
