PART F
Sec. F-1. Attorney General's working group on human trafficking; report. The Attorney General shall convene a working group on human trafficking consisting of representatives of the following: the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Labor, the Department of Public Safety, the Maine Institute for Public Safety Innovation, law enforcement, immigrant legal services, interested parties, other state agencies and service providers, including, but not limited to, health care, domestic violence and sexual assault victim advocates and other social service providers. The working group shall:
1. Develop training for law enforcement and community organizations;
2. Develop outreach and public awareness campaigns;
3. Work on options and initiatives for data collection;
4. Determine the need for victim and witness laws, victims' services and obtaining special visa status for victims who are undocumented immigrants, the coordination of services and the coordination of state and federal victim services programs for benefits, programs and licenses;
5. Monitor the actions of international matchmaking organizations to determine if state intervention or regulation is necessary; and
6. Determine whether a special tolling statute based on cultural and linguistic isolation would be appropriate for pursuing civil remedies under the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 5, chapter 337-C.
The working group shall report to the Second Regular Session of the 124th Legislature by January 15, 2010.
Sec. F-2. Effective date. This Part takes effect 90 days after the adjournment of the Second Regular Session of the 123rd Legislature.
Download text as MS-Word, RTF or PDF.
Office of the Revisor of Statutes