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Committee hears sponsor testimony for bill to place anti‑trafficking screening tool in schools
Summary
Representative Williams presented sponsor testimony for House Bill 431 to require Ohio public school districts to administer a depersonalized youth trafficking screening tool developed by the University of Toledo and report aggregated results to a state portal.
Representative Williams presented sponsor testimony for House Bill 431, which would authorize school districts to use the University of Toledo’s FOCUS Youth Screening Tool to identify students at risk of human trafficking and report depersonalized, aggregated results to a central portal for analysis.
Williams said the FOCUS questionnaire is "a trauma informed evidence based questionnaire designed to help identify students who may be at risk of or currently experiencing human trafficking," developed by the University of Toledo’s Human Trafficking and Social Justice Institute with support from the…
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