The Junior Leagues of New Jersey’s State Public Affairs Committee (SPAC) has advocated for laws and policies to help end human trafficking in New Jersey since 2005. In 2006, NJ SPAC collaborated on an informational conference looking at this issue in our country. In 2009, NJ SPAC organized the first conference on human trafficking in New Jersey hosted by Kean University.
In 2010, NJ SPAC organized a Roundtable Workshop to look at future legislative action, and out of that effort eventually sprung the NJ Coalition Against Human Trafficking (NJCAHT) initially under the umbrella of the Jewish Federation of Greater Metrowest NJ and the seeds of a comprehensive new law the NJ Human Trafficking Prevention, Protection and Treatment Act to combat human trafficking in our state sponsored by Assemblywoman Valerie Vainieri Huttle. Since then, NJ SPAC has:
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