What is Human Trafficking?
Court Educates and Engages the Community on a Growing Problem
September 16, 2014
(Cleveland) --The Cleveland Municipal Court and the Honorable Marilyn B. Cassidy presented What is Human Trafficking? a training seminar to raise awareness and educate court staff, law enforcement, attorneys, counselors and various other professionals engaged in combating this issue.
Presenters at the event on September 10, 2014 included Karen Walsh, Collaborative to End Human Trafficking; Melinda Haggerty, Office of the Ohio Attorney General; Kirsti Mouncey, Cleveland Rape Crisis Center; John Morgan, Cuyahoga County Sheriff/FBI Task Force and the Honorable Paul Herbert, Franklin County Municipal Court Judge – CATCH Program.
Earlier this year, Judge Cassidy spearheaded efforts to establish a specialized docket to deal with the growing amount of human trafficking cases in Northeast Ohio and this training, along with the establishment of an advisory committee, is part of these efforts.
Judge Cassidy hopes to start the new docket next month and once complete, the court will be the second such docket in the State of Ohio. The CATCH Program (Change Action to Change Habits), was the first and was started in Columbus in 2009 by Franklin County Municipal Court Judge Paul Herbert who spoke at this event.
For more information about the Cleveland Municipal Court Human Trafficking Specialized Docket please contact:
Karen Stanton
Docket Coordinator
Cleveland Municipal Court Human Trafficking Specialized Docket
(216) 664-4779
stantonk@cmcoh.org