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Miscellaneous Resolution #160I3
BY: Commissioner Shelley Taub, District #12 and Commissioner Janet Jackson, District #21
RE: BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS — DESIGNATION OF JANUARY 2016 AS HUMAN TRAFFICKING
AWARENESS MONTH IN OAKLAND COUNTY
TO: Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
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 victims are children - boys and girls, along with adults - men and women
who are 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 as many as 100,000 to 300,000 American children - boys and girls, as young as 11 years
old, are at risk of being trafficked for commercial sex in the United States 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 even with the diligent efforts of federal, state and local law enforcement, human trafficking is
the fastest growing and second largest criminal industry in the world today, according to the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services; and
WHEREAS the State of Michigan has the 11th largest call volume to the National Human Trafficking
Resource Center hotline; and
WHEREAS Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette has identified human trafficking as a serious concern
for law enforcement agencies, coordinating efforts for training, awareness and victim care; and
WHEREAS the Human Trafficking Commission Act, Act 325 of 2014, established the Michigan Human
Trafficking Commission for the prevention, intervention, and rehabilitation to the illegal act of human
trafficking in the State; and
WHEREAS on January 14, 2015 a majority of the new legislation from the 2014 Human Trafficking
Legislative Package took effect to fight against the horrific crimes of human trafficking; and
WHEREAS the Oakland County Board of Commissioners sponsored a successful event in 2014 to
provide human trafficking professional training and public awareness and in 2015 created the Oakland
County Human Trafficking Task Force; and
WHEREAS Oakland County continues to enhance public awareness to educate people about the signs
and consequences of human trafficking and to bring an end to the injustice suffered by the victims of this
crime; and
WHEREAS all people must work to dismantle trafficking networks, help survivors rebuild their lives,
address the underlying forces that push so many into bondage, develop economies that create legitimate
jobs, and build a global sense of justice that says no child or adult should ever be exploited.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED the Board of Commissioners recognize the month of January
2016 as "Human Trafficking Awareness Month" in order to bring awareness and prevention to the crime
of human trafficking in Oakland County and every day strive to restore to all people the most basic rights
of freedom, dignity and justice.
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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Lisa Brown, Oakland County
Resolution #16013 January 20, 2016
Moved by Jackson supported by Fleming to suspend the rules and vote on Miscellaneous Resolution
#16013 — Board of Commissioners — Designation of January 2016 as Human Trafficking Awareness
Month in Oakland County.
Vote on motion to suspend the rules:
AYES: Gershenson, Gingell, Gosselin, Hoffman, Jackson, Kochenderfer, KowaII, Long,
McGillivray, Middleton, Quarles, Scott, Spisz, Taub, Weipert, Zack, Bowman, Crawford, Dwyer,
Fleming. (20)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the motion to suspend the rules and vote on Miscellaneous
Resolution #16013 — Board of Commissioners — Designation of January 2016 as Human Trafficking
Awareness Month in Oakland County carried.
Moved by Jackson supported by Fleming the resolution be adopted.
Vote on resolution:
AYES: Gingell, Gosselin, Hoffman, Jackson, Kochenderfer, KowaII, Long, McGillivray, Middleton,
Quarles, Scott, Spisz, Taub, Weipert, Zack, Bowman, Crawford, Dwyer, Fleming, Gershenson.
(20)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the resolution was adopted.
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I HEFIEBYAPPROVE THIS RESOLUTION
CHIEF DEPUTY COUNTY EXECUTIVE
ACTING PURSUANT TO MCL 45.559A (7)
STATE OF OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
I, 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 20,
2016, 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 20th day of January, 2016.