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Transactions - Latin America & Caribbean.Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs).International Trade, CFIUS, Customs, Export Controls & Sanctions.
Financial Services Regulatory/Compliance.European Competition & Regulatory Advice.Asia Competition & Antitrust Counseling.If you or someone you know is being sexual exploited or trafficked, please contact your Regional Navigator or contact the Day One Hotline to learn more about services available in your community at 1-86.įor more information on Safe Harbor, contact Caroline Palmer, Safe Harbor Director, at or 65. To learn more about the network being implemented in Minnesota to support victims, see Regional Navigators, Housing, and Protocol Development and Training. Youth are provided with victim-centered trauma-informed services and safe housing. It ensures communities across Minnesota have the knowledge, skills and resources to effectively identify sexually exploited and at-risk youth. No Wrong Door is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary, and multi-state agency approach.
Safe Harbor services were made available to individuals 24 and younger, increasing the prior eligibility age for services from 18.State began implementing service model called No Wrong Door – making available resources and services for sexually exploited youth including regional navigators, housing and shelter, comprehensive services, and training and protocol development.If youth engage in conduct that relates to being hired, offering to be hired or agreeing to be hired by another individual to engage in sexual conduct, they cannot be charged with a crime for this act. This resolves the conflict that defines in law a sexually exploited youth as both a victim and delinquent. Excluded sexually exploited youth under 18 from the definition of delinquent child.Directed the Commissioner of Public Safety to work with stakeholders to create a victim-centered, statewide response for sexually exploited youth.Increased the penalties against commercial sex abusers or purchasers and.Added the definition of sexually exploited youth in Minnesota’s child protection codes.The Safe Harbor Law, passed in 2011, includes five key changes – three were effective immediately in 2011 while two additional changes will be effective in 2014. A third party may or may not be involved.įor more information on Safe Harbor, view the Safe Harbor Handout (PDF). A commercial sexual activity occurs when anything of value or a promise of anything of value (e.g., money, drugs, food, shelter, rent, or higher status in a gang or group) is given to a person by any means in exchange for any type of sexual activity. Minor Commercial Sexual Exploitation occurs when someone age 24 and under engages in commercial sexual activity. Sexual exploitation of youth in Minnesota is commonly overlooked, misidentified as something else and undocumented. They will be treated with dignity and respect, and directed to supportive services, and shelter and housing that meet their needs and recognize their right to make their own choices. For the first time, Minnesota youth who engage in prostitution are viewed as victims and survivors, not criminals.