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Miscellaneous Resolution #15015
BY: Commissioner Eileen KowaII, District #6 and Commissioner Janet Jackson, District #21; Shelley
Taub, District #12
RE: BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS — DECLARING "HUMAN TRAFFICKING AWARENESS MONTH" IN
OAKLAND COUNTY
TO: Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS the United States was founded on basic notions of human rights, that all people are born
with an inalienable right to freedom, liberty and self-determination; and
WHEREAS human trafficking is a form of modern-day slavery and is a crime against humanity that
violates the most basic human rights; and
WHEREAS human trafficking occurs when an adult or child is recruited, harbored, obtained, or
exported through force, fraud or coercion for the purposes of sexual exploitation, forced labor,
involuntary servitude, debt bondage and other methods of slavery; and
WHEREAS the State of Michigan has the 11th largest call volume to the National Human Trafficking
Resource Center hotline; and
WHEREAS human trafficking is the fastest growing and second largest criminal industry in the world
today, second only to drug trafficking and tied with illegal arms, according to the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services.; and
WHEREAS traffickers typically use multiple means to control their victims, including beatings, rape,
isolation, drug and/or alcohol dependency, document withholding, and psychological and emotional
abuse; and
WHEREAS in the United States each year, as many as 100,000 to 300,000 American children are at risk
of being trafficked for commercial sex, and girls and boys in the commercial sex trade are as young as
11 years old; and
WHEREAS at least 100,000 children are used as prostitutes each year as part of the $9.8 billion U.S. sex
trafficking industry, according to a report from anti-trafficking group Shared Hope International; and
WHEREAS the Oakland County Board of Commissioners sponsored a successful event in 2014 to
provide human trafficking professional training and public awareness; and
WHEREAS public awareness is essential to educate people about the signs and consequences of human
trafficking and bring an end to the injustice suffered by the victims of this crime.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED the Board of Commissioners recognize the month of January 2015
as "Human Trafficking Awareness Month" in order to bring awareness to the crime of human
trafficking in Oakland County.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Clerk of the County of Oakland is directed to submit a copy of this
resolution to the Michigan Abolitionist Project, the Michigan Human Trafficking Task Force, the
Michigan Rescue and Reach Coalition, Sheriff Michael Bouchard, Oakland Schools, Crossroads for
Youth, Jewish Family Services and Youth Assistance for Oakland County
Chairperson, I move the adoption of the foregoing Resolution.
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Resolution #15015 January 29, 2015
Moved by KowaII supported by Jackson to suspend the rules and vote on Miscellaneous Resolution
#15015 - Board of Commissioners — Declaring "Human Trafficking Awareness Month" In Oakland County.
Vote on motion to suspend:
AYES: Gershenson, Gingell, Gosselin, Hoffman, Jackson, Kowall, Long, Matis, McGillivray,
Middleton, Quarles, Scott, Spisz, Taub, Weipert, Woodward, Zack, Bowman, Crawford,
Fleming. (20)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the motion to suspend the rules and vote on Miscellaneous
Resolution #15015 — Board of Commissioners — Declaring "Human Trafficking Awareness Month" In
Oakland County carried.
Moved by Kowall supported by Jackson the resolution be adopted.
AYES: Gingell, Gosselin, Hoffman, Jackson, Kowall, Long, Matis, McGillivray, Middleton,
Quarles, Scott, Spisz, Taub, Weipert, Woodward, Zack, Bowman, Crawford, Fleming,
Gershenson. (20)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the resolution was adopted.
II HEREEiYAPprlove THIS RESOLUTION
CHIEF DEPUTY COUNTY EXECUTIVE
ACTING PURSUANT TO MCL 45.559A (7)
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
1, Lisa Brown, Clerk of the County of Oakland, do hereby certify that the foregoing resolution is a true and
accurate copy of a resolution adopted by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners on January 29,
2015, with the original record thereof now remaining in my office.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the County of Oakland at
Pontiac, Michigan this 29th day of January, 2015.
Lisa Brown, Oakland County