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Meeting Name: Human Relations Committee Agenda status: Final
Meeting date/time: 5/1/2024 10:00 AM Minutes status: Draft  
Meeting location: Cook County Building, Board Room, 118 North Clark Street, Chicago, Illinois
Issued on: 4/22/2024 - Public Hearing
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24-1768 1 Proposed Resolution Requesting A Public Hearing of the Human Relations Committee to Address the Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation of Men and Boys in Cook County, IllinoisResolutionPROPOSED SUBSTITUTE TO FILE 24-1768 PROPOSED RESOLUTION PROPOSED RESOLUTION REQUESTING A PUBLIC HEARING OF THE HUMAN RELATIONS COMMITTEE TO ADDRESS THE TRAFFICKING AND SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF MEN AND BOYS IN COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS WHEREAS, in the U.S. Department of State’s fact sheet on ‘Understanding Human Trafficking’, it identifies “trafficking in persons” and “human trafficking” as umbrella terms-often used interchangeably-to refer to a crime whereby traffickers exploit and profit at the expense of adults or children by compelling them to perform labor or engage in commercial sex; and WHEREAS, in that same fact sheet, the U.S. Department of State further identifies that both labor and sex trafficking entails the use of force, fraud, or coercion that exploits the labor or services of another person or to compel their engagement in a commercial sex act; and WHEREAS, under Illinois statute, 720 ILCS 5/10-9 , trafficking is defined as (1) the recruitment, enticement, harboring, transport, provision, or obtainment by any means, or attempts to recruit, entice, harbor, transport,   Not available Not available
24-1768 1 Proposed Resolution Requesting A Public Hearing of the Human Relations Committee to Address the Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation of Men and Boys in Cook County, IllinoisResolutionPROPOSED SUBSTITUTE TO FILE 24-1768 PROPOSED RESOLUTION PROPOSED RESOLUTION REQUESTING A PUBLIC HEARING OF THE HUMAN RELATIONS COMMITTEE TO ADDRESS THE TRAFFICKING AND SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF MEN AND BOYS IN COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS WHEREAS, in the U.S. Department of State’s fact sheet on ‘Understanding Human Trafficking’, it identifies “trafficking in persons” and “human trafficking” as umbrella terms-often used interchangeably-to refer to a crime whereby traffickers exploit and profit at the expense of adults or children by compelling them to perform labor or engage in commercial sex; and WHEREAS, in that same fact sheet, the U.S. Department of State further identifies that both labor and sex trafficking entails the use of force, fraud, or coercion that exploits the labor or services of another person or to compel their engagement in a commercial sex act; and WHEREAS, under Illinois statute, 720 ILCS 5/10-9 , trafficking is defined as (1) the recruitment, enticement, harboring, transport, provision, or obtainment by any means, or attempts to recruit, entice, harbor, transport,   Not available Not available
24-1768 2 Proposed Resolution Requesting A Public Hearing of the Human Relations Committee to Address the Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation of Men and Boys in Cook County, IllinoisResolutionPROPOSED SUBSTITUTE TO FILE 24-1768 PROPOSED RESOLUTION PROPOSED RESOLUTION REQUESTING A PUBLIC HEARING OF THE HUMAN RELATIONS COMMITTEE TO ADDRESS THE TRAFFICKING AND SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF MEN AND BOYS IN COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS WHEREAS, in the U.S. Department of State’s fact sheet on ‘Understanding Human Trafficking’, it identifies “trafficking in persons” and “human trafficking” as umbrella terms-often used interchangeably-to refer to a crime whereby traffickers exploit and profit at the expense of adults or children by compelling them to perform labor or engage in commercial sex; and WHEREAS, in that same fact sheet, the U.S. Department of State further identifies that both labor and sex trafficking entails the use of force, fraud, or coercion that exploits the labor or services of another person or to compel their engagement in a commercial sex act; and WHEREAS, under Illinois statute, 720 ILCS 5/10-9 , trafficking is defined as (1) the recruitment, enticement, harboring, transport, provision, or obtainment by any means, or attempts to recruit, entice, harbor, transport,   Not available Not available