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| 25 | 2022 | House | Colin Allred | Allred | Colin | A000376 | Democrat | TX | Commerce Justice Science | Combatting Human Trafficking | COMBATTING HUMAN TRAFFICKING | s Texas and the United States continue to fight labor and sex trafficking, each government report and law, including the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) of 2020, states the disparity between what is known and what needs to be known for effective human trafficking legislation and procedures. Human traffick ing efforts by stakeholders, including the government, law enforcement, service providers, lawyers, nonprofit agencies, and research groups, call for reliable data collection and analysis. Each partnership of stakeholders is constructed to include the expertise of the group, but rarely allows for the inclusion of outside expertise. The SMU Human Trafficking Project proposes to directly address the deficiencies in data collection and analysis and in collaboration of expertise needed to effectively fight human trafficking in Texas. We will do this through compilation of the anti-trafficking stakeholders’ data and research needs, the collection of human trafficking lit erature and data, the use of human computation gaming, machine learning, and visualization of human trafficking data in Texas, the dissemination of human trafficking data and research by expert research teams, and the consultation to stakeholders involved in anti-human trafficking work SMU’s unique collaborative setting allows economics, information technology, gaming, public policy, law, edu cation, theology, and other disciplines to come together to solve world problems. SMU contains vast resources, such the expertise of SMU Guildhall, the top computer gaming school, the super computer ManeFrame, SMU’s research centers, departments, and libraries, an interdisciplinary research group, and a law school. We propose to invest in building expertise to drive policy and practice. This will be done through providing funding for post doctoral research within the applicable disciplines. This approach broadens the opportunities for students to use their disciplinary knowledge gained at SMU to conduct human trafficking research. | 6425 Boaz Lane, Dallas, TX 75205 | 1187000 |