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Tuscaloosa proclaims January 2025 Human Trafficking Awareness Month; task force thanks city for overtime support
Summary
Mayor Maddox read a proclamation designating January 2025 as Human Trafficking Awareness Month and members of the West Alabama Human Trafficking Task Force thanked the council for authorizing use of city overtime to support investigations and education.
Mayor Maddox read a proclamation at the Jan. 2 Tuscaloosa City Council meeting declaring January 2025 as Human Trafficking Awareness Month in Tuscaloosa and presented it to Captain Phil Simpson of the West Alabama Human Trafficking Task Force.
The proclamation says in part, “Whereas human trafficking is a public health issue and a crime that affects individual families and communities across generations, exploiting the most vulnerable among us and weakening our collective well-being,” and cites a global estimate of 27,600,000 people subject to human…
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