Assemblywoman Susan Eggman has reintroduced a bill that aims to aid children exploited by sex traffickers.
Assembly Bill 223 would call for a pilot project in three counties — San Joaquin, Alameda and Sacramento — in which the county's probation department or child welfare agency, or both, would be required to create a program to offer services to juveniles who have been sexually exploited.
The bill, if passed, would include funding in order for the counties to include programs that assess a victim's condition, provide "trauma-informed" counseling and provide trained staff and peer mentors. A keystone of the legislation would be to secure a "protective setting secluded from the victim's trafficking environment" within one of the participating counties.
The bill is in the Assembly's Committee on Human Services.
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