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Assembly approves human trafficking bill
By: Associated Press//February 14, 2014//
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The state Assembly has approved a bill that would tighten Wisconsin’s human trafficking laws and give victims a way to void any crimes they may have committed.
Current Wisconsin law defines trafficking as recruiting, enticing, harboring or transporting someone against their consent. The bipartisan bill removes the consent element and adds using schemes to control an individual to the definition.
The proposal would allow trafficking victims to ask a judge to vacate or expunge prostitution convictions. The judge could grant the request if he or she gives the prosecutor a chance to respond and determines society won’t be harmed.
The measure also would allow evidence of similar acts into trafficking prosecutions.
The Assembly passed the bill on a voice vote Thursday. It now goes to the state Senate.
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