Human Trafficking

The Love Drop-in Center, run by the nonprofit 1DivineLine2Health, is getting to expand with a new multipurpose room to be built later this year.

Several community partners teamed up with the Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority to fund a $15.6-million housing complex that will have wrap-around services in Franklinton.

The state oversaw a collection of different task force operations to bust human trafficking around Ohio.

Attorney Dave Yost is partnering with the Columbus Crew to raise awareness about human trafficking at home games.

A Northland High school teacher has been arrested by the Central Ohio Human Trafficking Task Force.

The operation which occurred in Ohio last week resulted in the arrest of 161 men, three of whom were attempting to buy sex from someone they believed to be a minor.

An Ohio State researcher in the field said she and local advocacy organizations recently wrote letters to Columbus City Council urging them not to further criminalize the sex trade.

A two-day human trafficking sting resulted in nearly 100 arrests around Central Ohio. Operation 614 comes on the heels of a new state law penalizing johns.

It’s been a decade since Freedom a la Cart started helping women escape prostitution and human trafficking with counseling, education and a steady paycheck. On Monday, the nonprofit’s services expand considerably as they open their first storefront, the Freedom a la Cart Café.

Columbus leaders are weighing changes to local solicitation laws that would emphasize punishing those who pay for sex rather than those who sell it. But…