What? Senate Bill 851, Safe Harbor Legislation
When? Introduced on May 28, 2015
Where? In Pennsylvania
Who? By Senators Greenleaf and Leach
Why? Proposes amendments to Pennsylvania’s comprehensive human trafficking statute, Act 105* with four purposes:
(1) protect, rather than prosecute child victims of sexual exploitation,
(2) impose a duty on child services agencies to establish adequate victim services for these children,
(3) require police training to identify child victims of sexual exploitation, and
(4) establish a fund to provide optional services for child victims of sexual exploitation.
*18 Pa. Cons. Stat. Ann. §§ 3001-3072 (2014).