Our Mission:
The HT8 Task Force unites law enforcement, victim service providers, faith-based and community organizations, educators, and concerned citizens across Florida’s 8th Judicial Circuit in a shared mission: to end human trafficking. We work to identify and support survivors, strengthen the systems built to protect them, and raise community-wide awareness — so that exploitation has nowhere to hide and no one faces recovery alone.
Sex Trafficking in Florida by the Numbers
2024, National Human Trafficking Hotline (NHTH)
832 total human trafficking cases identified…
Involving 1,874 victims.
445 of those cases were specifically sex trafficking…
Compared to 170 labor trafficking, 129 sex and labor combined.
167 were minors, 620 were adults…
Of victims with reported demographics.
596 female victims, 145 male victims…
There is a gender disparity among victims.
Top venues for sex trafficking cases:
Illicit massage/spa businesses (67), residence-based commercial sex (58), hotel/motel-based (45).
Florida is consistently among the top 3–4 states nationally for reported human trafficking case volume…
Behind only California and Texas in most yearly rankings.
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.