Contact: Richard A. Sands, Ret. PI rsnsinternational@sob-csc.org or 734-771-7251

Email rsnsinternational@sob-csc.org or Call 734-771-7251 Richard A. Sands, Ret. PI

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Michigan HUMAN TRAFFICKING Section MCL 750.462j Effective April 1, 2011.

Dear Petitioners: Thank you and bless you for your ongoing support, working together for all American Workers Safety, Health and Welfare to help end/stop human trafficking ~ modern/day slavery... “Yes We Can” and indeed we will!


THE MICHIGAN PENAL CODE (EXCERPT)
Act 328 of 1931
CHAPTER LXVIIA
HUMAN TRAFFICKING
THIS ADDED SECTION IS EFFECTIVE APRIL 1, 2011

750.462j.added Providing or obtaining labor or services by force, fraud, or coercion as crime; penalty; recruiting, harboring, transporting, providing, or obtaining person for involuntary servitude or debt bondage as crime; penalty; other violations of law; consecutive terms; restitution; definitions.
Sec. 462j.
(1) A person shall not knowingly provide or obtain the labor or services of another person by force, fraud, or coercion. Except as provided in subsections (2) and (3), a person who violates this subsection is guilty of a crime as follows:
(a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), the person is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than 10 years or a fine of not more than $10,000.00, or both.
(b) If the violation involves the forced labor of a minor or a commercial sex act, or if the violation involves serious physical harm to any person, the person is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than 20 years or a fine of not more than $20,000.00, or both.
(c) If the violation involves the death of any person, the person is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for life or any term of years or a fine of not more than $50,000.00, or both.
(2) A person shall not knowingly recruit, harbor, transport, provide, or obtain a person for labor or services for the purpose of holding that person in involuntary servitude or debt bondage. A person who violates this section is guilty of a crime as follows:
(a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), the person is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than 10 years or a fine of not more than $10,000.00, or both.
(b) If the violation involves the trafficking of a minor or a commercial sex act, or if the violation involves serious physical harm to any person, the person is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than 20 years or a fine of not more than $20,000.00, or both.
(c) If the violation involves the death of any person, the person is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for life or any term of years or a fine of not more than $50,000.00, or both.
(3) This section does not prohibit a person from being charged with, convicted of, or punished for any other violation of law arising out of the same transaction as the violation of this section.
(4) The court may order a term of imprisonment imposed for violating this section to be served consecutively to a term of imprisonment imposed for the commission of any other crime, including any other violation of law arising out of the same transaction as the violation of this section.
(5) The court shall order a person convicted of violating this section to pay restitution to the victim in the manner provided in section 16b of the William Van Regenmorter crime victim's rights act, 1985 PA 87, MCL 780.766b, and to reimburse any governmental entity for its expenses incurred as a result of the violation, in the manner provided in section 1f of chapter IX of the code of criminal procedure, 1927 PA 175, MCL 769.1f.

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Victory! Texas Passes Tough Anti-Trafficking Law

http://news.change.org/stories/victory-texas-passes-tough-anti-trafficking-law

What does this mean for the Lone Star State? For one thing: tougher laws on sex and labor trafficking and harsher penalties for child trafficking. But the passage of this bill might also be the bellwether needed to convince other states to pass their own trafficking legislation. Texas has a strong track record of preemptively combating trafficking issues — Virginia, Georgia and Missouri? Not so much. As you’re toasting the (real) champagne, don’t forget to pick up a (virtual) pen and support these other great pieces of legislation.

This Texan law was created from the recommendations of a statewide 47-member Human Trafficking Prevention Task Force. It increases the minimum jail time for offenders to 25 years in prison, makes it a felony to force children into prostitution and gives automatic life sentences to repeat offenders. It expands the definition of human trafficking to include both sex and labor trafficking. The law will also provide a certain measure of legal protection for victims, giving children forced into prostitution provisions similar to sexual assault cases.

According to the Texas Attorney General, of the 800,000 people who become trafficking victims each year, 20 percent will pass through Texas. For those victims, this law means that traffickers may think twice about buying or selling a person, and those convicted of trafficking will be off the streets for good. Texas was one of the first states in the U.S. to recognize human trafficking as a crime in 2003, and it’s become the latest state to continue the fight against modern-day slavery.

“This is a huge step forward for the children in our state who are victims of human trafficking and for all victims of human trafficking,” said Traffick 911 Executive Director Deena Graves.

Please contact your state and federal legislators asking them to help the other (640,000) Six-Hundred Forty-Thousand victims/survivors!!!
  

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

CHILD SAFETY, INC. PARTNERS WITH CALIFORNIA AGAINST SLAVERY

On Saturday, March 19th, Christy Walls (far right in photo) shared her heart-breaking story of losing her younger sister 'Stacey Lynn McKinney' on July 13, 2006, which was murdered by 'John' a former client from New York city. Along with Christy there were eight other advocates and survivors brought in to be guest speakers from across the nation at the conference. 


Repeating: Awesome, indeed the partners will be, helping to keep our children safe while working together to fight human trafficking and modern/day slavery!!!  Bless you Christy for bringing everyone together to help others end/stop the suffering...

The organization hosting this conference was founded by Christy Walls last year with the vision and deep desire to end sexual exploitation of teenage girls and women in America. 

By bringing survivors, advocates and non-profit groups together to inform, educate and raise awareness of this national and international crime which effects an estimated 100,000 to 300,000 victims each year in America.

Rosario Dowling (far left) Sacramento Regional Director/State Capitol Representative with Californians Against Slavery  was haunted into action by a picture of a 10 year old girl handcuffed to a bed upon being recovered by law enforcement. Missing and abducted children fueled her getting involved with CAS. California Against Slavery is one of the premier organizations making a difference, legislatively, in the media, through victims advocacy and with grassroots awareness in California. Child Safety, Inc. is proud to be partnering with CAS and many other abolitionist/human trafficking awareness groups around the country to make a difference.


Contact: Sean Spellecy  


 888.342.1997

CHILD SAFETY, INC. PARTNERS WITH CALIFORNIA AGAINST SLAVERY

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Sex Trafficking Conference 3/19/2011 - Money, Politics, Eye Candy, Alcohol and Drugs






Growing-up in a World Wide Web of Crime
The SOBS Corporate Inventory:

Perceptions, Illusions and Business Interests

A paradigm shift or change must first occur in the mindset of our society before a vast majority of people can understand what really happens behind the closed doors of organized crime, human and drug trafficking businesses that exist in the darkest-shadows of our world.

Our thoughts is, for the most part, focused on the things that we normally see or read about; therefore, it follows that the cliché “Out of sight, out of mind” plays a major role in our common perception of reality and what we believe or chose to believe is actually going on around us, in our neighborhoods and surrounding communities.

I think we can all agree as a practical matter, that people in general would rather like to feel safe and secure as opposed to worrying about crime or ongoing criminal activities.

However, the crooks and criminals understand that too!  Indeed, so does every municipality or government authority around the entire planet.  This brings me to the reason why their intent or hidden-agendas, on both sides of the isle, are without question meant to orchestrate the perception or an altered illusion of reality by hiding the truth.

·         Stay away from that part of town, bad news and it’s always nothing but trouble
o   Everyone knows a few places like that and where they’re found
·         Welcome to our community, good news and indeed we keep our neighborhoods safe
o   Everywhere you look there are patrol officers working to protect and serve
·         Neither crooks nor government authorities want criminal activities in the news-media
o   It is simply bad for business on either side of the isle and for a number of reasons.  Crooks don’t want to get caught and Communities don’t want the general public to think or know that there’s a problem that might adversely affect developers, financial investors and their future economic growth.
o   Who of you or why would anyone want to live, work or even think about allowing children to play anywhere near or around a well-known crime area?       

Victims and Survivors Working World Wide

Children are always blessed, without exception or question at birth, from that day forward they live, learn, and grow by any means necessary or what’s available to become adults themselves.  A child’s family, friends and other people play and have a certain part or roll in that process.  There is always a profound bond in any given community that shares in the joy of a child’s life.
Crooks and criminal enterprises want to be a part of that too!  The fact that children are impressionable always opens a few doors that can swing both ways to either heaven or hell on earth and if guided in the right direction, for the most part, will keep them out of harm’s way.

However, that said, it was just four-years ago on March 16, 2007, that my 17 year-old granddaughter lost her life after being hired at a local strip-club, given pure uncut cocaine by two patrons and another co-worker who told Stephanie she could make Three-Thousand Dollars to help them make a girl-on-girl pornographic video just down the street at another location.   

When the telephone rang that morning, my oldest daughter Melisa was in a panic because when she went to wake Stephanie up for school and Stephanie wasn’t in bed.  Melisa said she had been calling everyone and nobody or no one had a clue where Stephanie was.  Melisa then said someone was clicking in on the other line and she would call me right back.  Moments later Melisa called me back..., crying, screaming, yelling and trying to tell me Stephanie was dead.

It is most difficult for me to share this story with you about my family’s suffering because I have yet to deal with it myself.  Everyone else I know, family, friends and others have moved on with his or her lives and maybe that was the best way for them to accept and deal with Stephanie’s death just to survive the tragedy themselves.

I know from what everyone has told me that moving on with one’s life was the only real professional advice given, suggested or offered by the grief counselors, social workers and psychologists.   However, I swore than as I do here today, that I will never give-up fighting this war against human and drug trafficking so long as I live, and breathe to help save someone else from the suffering.  

Today, is Wednesday just three-days before the Conference and I’m writing this outline about what to say or talk about and thinking to myself that I am there and/or here now and I must or need to tell you that I have no clue where the last four-years have gone.

As a private detective and professional investigator, I have been and currently am involved with a number of local, state and federal agencies for over nine-years now working to help end/stop human and drug trafficking where over a dozen homicide cases were successfully prosecuted so far including the 2001 shooting death of two-twin four-and-a-half year-old boys.  All these criminal cases involved some form of adult entertainment where the “Secondary Negative Effects” is far-reaching and never-ending.

The only way I know how to survive these horrific crimes or case investigations is to work them for the sake of others and I don’t want to see anyone suffer the loss or pain like my family has in my granddaughter’s case.  In my heart, I know nobody, not one person ever honestly gets over or beyond the pain because there is always something to remind you of the loss, a birthday, holiday or special event... someone else losing someone so young.

Looking back over and during the last four-years, we went through the criminal trial in Stephanie’s case where one of the drug-dealing patrons at the strip-club was found guilty by a jury of providing narcotics to a minor causing death and was sentenced to 11-20 years.  Then there were all the demonstrations where sometimes Tens-of-Hundreds, close to a Thousand people showed up to beg the local city council to shut the strip-club down.  “Hands Holding Stephanie” events were held in 2008 – Lincoln Park, MI, 2009 – Lansing, MI and 2010 in Washington, DC just last year.  Meanwhile, throughout the last four-years I have currently a number of ongoing civil cases at the local, state and federal levels regarding the SOBS “Sexually Oriented Businesses” with respect to human trafficking, drugs, alcohol and code enforcement including new legislature to regulate adult entertainment without exception or further question.

The last thing I would like to comment on, is that, I cannot stress enough to everyone here including my posts or comments on the social-media networks, for example face-book, twitter and other providers that our biggest problem is the lack of public awareness.  During the last nine-years I talked with and/or interviewed hundreds of workers in adult entertainment, and they all, for the most part, had one story in common to tell or would at least share with me in absolute or strict confidence, they’re all scared to death and feel there is nowhere to turn, run or even who to trust.  We have to, need to and must earn victims and survivor’s trust without exception by letting them all know we do care and will do everything, whatever it takes or is necessary to help end/stop human trafficking, the pain and suffering and that we as a civil society are all responsible for each other as human beings ourselves.


/s/ RICHARD A. SANDS, PD/PI
Michigan Private Detective Agency
State ID# 3701205140
http://www.sob-csc.org/
734-771-725

National Adult Entertainment Control Coalition (NAECC) International Drug &
Human Trafficking Victims Association Of America (IDHTVAA) Sexual Oriented
Business Crime Study Center (SOB-CSC) Qui Tam Research Service (QTRS)
Adult Entertainment Coalition For Occupational Safety And Health (AhEeCOSH)
“Stephanie’s Place” Community Action Network Downriver Office Of The Universal
Church Of Angelic Jurisprudence RS&S INTERNATIONAL, LLC and E-Verify US Ink

Friday, March 11, 2011

Regulate SOB’s to reduce risks to public, occupational health and to prevent human trafficking!

Regulate sexually oriented businesses to reduce risks to public, occupational health and to prevent human trafficking!


We cannot NOT any longer afford to ignore some of the most lucrative global Sexually Oriented Business (SOB) industries in the entire world that demands the ongoing and/or an ever-changing supply of human resources to meet the needs of their clients, including illegal drug and human trafficking activities.

Please review the following bill, at the hyperlink below, as purposed or was submitted to the legislature in the Honorable State of Texas for your personal review and due consideration.  We must take notice of said same for the sake of all American Workers Safety, Health and Welfare.


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED, AN ACT relating to the regulation of owners, operators, employees, and independent contractors of sexually oriented businesses to reduce risks to public and occupational health and to prevent human trafficking; providing penalties.

Global Display Map of Human Trafficking Incidents and Current News


Global Incident Maps including Amber-Alert Map, Gang Activity Map, Drug Interdictions Map, Hazmat Situations Map, Disease Outbreaks Map, Food/Medicine Incidents, Border Security Issues, Terrorism Event Predictions etc., etc., etc.

Please repost or share this valuable information and news on your face-book walls, blogs or other social media sites.

May God Bless Us All, and thank you for helping to enlighten, empower and engage in fighting human trafficking – modern/day slavery!

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Texas H.B. 1929 (Aliseda) – Sexually Oriented Businesses:

Texas H.B. 1929 (Aliseda) – Sexually Oriented Businesses: would create a state licensing scheme to be administered by the State Department of Health Services for owners, operators, employees, or independent contractors of sexually oriented businesses; (2) provide certain requirements that must be met to obtain a license, including ineligibility if a person has been convicted of certain criminal offenses; (3) prohibit a person from owning, operating, or working at, or otherwise engaging in a business transaction as an owner, operator, employee, or independent contractor at, a sexually oriented business unless the person holds a state license; (4) create civil and criminal penalties for a violation under the bill; and (5) provide that the bill’s requirements are in addition to any municipal or county regulation and that, to the extent of a conflict between the bill and a municipal or county regulation, the bill controls.

Texas H.B. 1930 (Zedler) – Human Trafficking: would, among other things, propose that the Human Trafficking Prevention Task Force examine the extent to which human trafficking is associated with the operation of sexually oriented businesses.

Monday, March 7, 2011

The New Declaration of Independence

The New Declaration of Independence was the promise; the Corporate Constitution was the fulfillment.  “The sacred rights of corporations are not to be rummaged for, among old parchments, or musty records.  They are written, as with shadows of darkness in the whole volume of corporate nature, by the hand of the evil divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.”
Richard A. Sands, 2011

We the Corporations of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Corporate Constitution for the United States of America. Richard A. Sands, 2011

Please note the misspelling of the word “defence” is (Reprint Twenty-Fourth ed., 2009, UNITED STATES SENATE 111th Congress, 1st Session July 29, 2009) and not mine...
Richard A. Sands, 2011

Wake-up and Good-Morning America! Richard A. Sands, 2011