Item B5BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY
Meeting Date: Wed. Dec. 14, 2011
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Division: BOCC
Department: Mayor David Rice
Staff Contact /Phone #: Tamara Lamarche, X6000
PH: 305 289-6000
AGENDA ITEM WORDING: Mayor's Proclamation recognizing Human Trafficking
Awareness Day, January 11, 2012.
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Mayor's Proclamation
Human Trafficking Awareness Day
January 11, 2012
WHEREAS because the people of the United States remain committed to protecting individual
freedom, there is a national imperative to eliminate human trafficking, including early or forced
marriage, commercial sexual exploitation, forced labor, labor obtained through debt bondage,
involuntary servitude, slavery, and slavery by descent, and;
WHEREAS to combat human trafficking in the United States and globally, the people of the
United States and the Federal Government, including local and State governments, must be aware of the
realities of human trafficking and must be dedicated to stopping this contemporary manifestation of
slavery, and;
WHEREAS beyond all differences of race, creed or political persuasion, the people of the United
States face national threats together and refuse to let human trafficking exist in the United States and
around the world, and;
WHEREAS the United States should actively oppose all individuals, groups, organizations, and
nations who support, advance, or commit acts of human trafficking, and;
WHEREAS victims of human trafficking need support in order to escape and to recover from the
physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual trauma associated with their victimization, and;
WHEREAS, human traffickers use many physical and psychological techniques to control their
victims, including the use of violence or threats of violence against the victim of the victim's family,
isolation from the public, isolation from the victim's family and religious or ethnic communities,
language and cultural barriers, shame, control of the victim's possessions, confiscation of passports and
other identification documents, and threats of arrest, deportation, or imprisonment if the victim attempts
to reach out for assistance of to leave, and;
WHEREAS, the effort by individuals, businesses, organizations, and governing bodies to
promote the observance of the national Day of Human Trafficking Awareness on January 11 of each
year represents one of the many examples of the ongoing commitment in the United States to raise
awareness of and to actively oppose human trafficking.
NOW THEREFORE, I, David Rice, Mayor of Monroe County do hereby recognize January 11,
2012 as
Human Trafficking Awareness Day
in Monroe County and call all to support all efforts to raise awareness of and opposition to human
trafficking.
David Rice, Mayor