HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2021.01.21 - 34086MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #21001
BY: Commissioners Janet Jackson, District #21; Michael Spisz, District #3; Penny Luebs, District #16;
Bob Hoffman, District#2; Eileen Kowall, District#6; Gwen Markham, District#9; Christine Long, District#7;
Michael Gingell, District#1; Marcia Gershenson, District#13; Philip Weipert, District#8; and Kristen Nelson,
District #5
RE: BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS — DESIGNATION OF JANUARY 11, 2021 AS NATIONAL HUMAN
TRAFFICKING AWARENESS DAY AND JANUARY 2021 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 are 40.3 million victims of
human trafficking worldwide; and
WHEREAS the State of Michigan has the 7th largest call volume to the National Human Trafficking
Resource Center hotline; and
WHEREAS in 2019, Michigan had 364 trafficking cases, 184 victims identified, and 145 businesses were
involved in trafficking; 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 151; 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 2015 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 mustwork 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, 2021 as Human
Trafficking Awareness Day and January 2021 as Slavery and 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
Oakland County, Common Ground, Sanctum House, Centro Multicultural La Familia, 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 #21001
January 6, 2020
The Chairperson referred the resolution to the Legislative Affairs and Government Operations Committee.
There were no objections.
Resolution #21001 January 21, 2021
Moved by Gingell seconded by Nelson the resolutions on the Consent Age da be adopted.
AYES: Charles, Gershenson, Gingell, Hoffman, Jackson, Joliat, Kochenderfer, Kowall, Kuhn,
Long, Luebs, Markham, McGillivray, Miller, Moss, Nelson, PowE 1, Spisz, Weipert, Woodward,
Cavell. (21)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the resolutions on the Consent i1.9enda were adopted.
Moved by Gingell seconded by Kowall MR #21002 be amended as follows:
Add the following Commissioners as co-sponsors of the resolution
Bob Hoffman, District #2; Adam Kochenderfer, District #1t!, Eileen Kowall, District #6;
Thomas Kuhn, District #12; Christine Long, District #7; Gary M,. Gillivray, District #20; Chuck
Moss, District #12; Philip Weipert, District #8; Charlie Cavell, 7strict #18; Yolanda Charles,
District #17; Janet Jackson, District #21; Karen Joliat, District t Penny Luebs, District #16;
Gwen Markham, District #9; William Miller, District #14; Kriste 11 Nelson, District #5; Angela
Powell, District #10
Discussion followed.
A sufficient majority having voted in favor the amendment carried.
I HERBY APPROVE THIS RESOLUTION
CHIEF DEPUTY COUNTY EXECUTIVE
ACTING PURSUANTTO MCL 45.559A (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 21,
2021, 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 Circuit Court at Pontiac,
Michigan this 2Vt day of January, 2021.
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Lisa Crown, Oakland County