HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2019.01.09 - 30956REQUESTING SUSPENSION
OF THE BOARD RULES FOR
IMMEDIATE CONSIDERATION
UNDER NEW BUSINESS
MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #19008
BY: Commissioner Janet Jackson, District #21; Gwen Markham, District #9; Michael Spisz, District #3;
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RE: BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS — DESIGNATION OF JANUARY 11, 2019 AS NATIONAL HUMAN
TRAFFICKING AWARENESS DAY AND JANUARY 2019 AS SLAVERY AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING
PREVENTION MONTH IN OAKLAND COUNTY
To the 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 an estimated 100,000 to 300,000 American children – boys and girls, some as young as 14
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 in 2016, the International Labor Organization estimates that there ae 40.3 million victims of
human trafficking worldwide; and
WHEREAS the State of Michigan has the 6th largest call volume to the National Human Trafficking
Resource Center hotline; and
WHEREAS in 2007, the U.S. Senate designated January 11th as National Human Trafficking Awareness
Day to raise awareness of sexual slavery and human trafficking worldwide; and
WHEREAS in 2010, President Barack Obama continued to address the injustice of modern slavery and
human trafficking and proclaimed January as National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month,
culminating in the annual celebration of National Freedom Day on February 1s1; and
WHEREAS Michigan's Attorney General 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 2016 created the Oakland County
Human Trafficking Task Force; and
WHEREAS Oakland County is dedicated to preventing and combating Human trafficking and through a
collaborative effort has launched the Oakland County Human Trafficking website to enhance public
awareness, conduct outreach in the community, and work with the victims of human trafficking; and
WHEREAS Oakland County remains unrelenting in its efforts to end the exploitation and injustice suffered
by the victims of this crime and in 2018, in partnership with Common Ground, launched the Oakland County
Human Trafficking Hot Line to provide trafficking victims crisis support, intervention and program services;
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 January 11, 2019 as Human
Trafficking Awareness Day and January 2019 as "Human Trafficking Prevention 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 Oakland County Clerk/Register of Deeds is requested to forward 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, CARE House of
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Chairperson, I move the adoption\of the foregoing resolution.
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Resolution #18008 January 9, 2019
Moved by Jackson supported by Spisz to suspend the rules and vote on Miscellaneous Resolution #19008
— Board of Commissioners — Designation of January 11, 2019 as National Human Trafficking Awareness
Day and January 2019 as Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month in Oakland County.
Vote on motion to suspend the rules:
AYES: Long, Luebs, Markham, McGillivray; Middleton, Miller, Nelson, Powell, Quarles, Spisz,
Taub, Weipert, Woodward, Zack Gershenson, Hoffman, Jackson, Kochenderfer, KowaII. (19)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the motion to suspend the rules and vote on Miscellaneous
Resolution #19008 — Board of Commissioners — Designation of January 11, 2019 as National Human
Trafficking Awareness Day and January 2019 as Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month in
Oakland County carried.
Moved by Jackson supported by Spisz the resolution be adopted.
Vote on resolution:
AYES: Luebs, Markham, McGillivray, Middleton, Miller, Nelson, Powell, Quarles, Spisz, Taub,
VVeipert, Woodward, Zack Gershenson, Hoffman, Jackson, Kochenderfer, KowaII, Long. (19)
NAYS: None. (0) •
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the resolution was adopted.
GERALD D. POISSON
CHIEF DEPUTY COUNTY EXECUTIVE
ACTING PURSUANT TQ Ina 45.5594(7)
STATE 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 9, 2019,
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 gth day of January, 2019.
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Lisa Brown, Oakland County