For survivors who need access to services and support | For business and residents if you have questions and/or curious about activities in your neighborhood | UPSIDE responds to calls within 48-hours | Call 911 for emergencies.
If you are a victim of trafficking and need to find shelter and/or other services
To report a suspected trafficking situation
Human trafficking is the sale of a person for the purpose of sexual acts or forced labor. As noted by the Minnesota Human Trafficking Taskforce, human trafficking is "public safety, public health and human rights issue that occurs around the world and communities throughout Minnesota."
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Minnesota law defines sex trafficking as the “receiving, recruiting, enticing, harboring, providing, or obtaining by any means an individual to aid in the prostitution of an individual; or by receiving profit of anything of value, knowing or having reason to know it is derived from [the sex trafficking of an individual].”
Minn. Stat. 609.321, Subd. 7a.
Minnesota law defines labor trafficking as “the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, enticement, provision, obtaining, or receipt of a person by any means, for the purpose of: debt bondage or forced labor or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery; or the removal of organs through the use of coercion or intimidation; or receiving profit or anything of value, knowing or having reason to know it is derived from [labor trafficking].”
Minn. Stat. 609.281 Subd. 5
Wage theft happens when an employer fails to pay wages earned by its employee. Approximately one quarter of all low wage workers in Minneapolis consistently suffer from various acts of wage theft, including off-the-clock work, denial of overtime, misclassification or fraud, and other illegal deductions from pay.
Learn more about the wage theft prevention ordinance
Resources:"Wage theft in Minneapolis," report (March 4, 2019) by the Minneapolis Workplace Advisory Committee
Mayor Frey declared January human trafficking and exploitation prevention month.
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