Justice
How Airports Could Help Stop Human Trafficking
San Francisco cites the upcoming Super Bowl as an impetus behind employee training programs—though trafficking happens everywhere and anytime.
On a Monday in mid-January, in San Francisco’s International Airport, around 200 ticket- and customer-service counter employees, custodians, and maintenance workers gathered for a special training. They were learning how to spot victims of trafficking, and what to do if they found someone in need of help.
On February 7, the Super Bowl will return to the Bay Area for the first time in 30 years, and it’s an oft-repeated chestnut that when sports championships come to town, so too do human traffickers.