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inlawrev-22851	Forbes, Katherine M.	Highways and Byways: Following Connecticut's Path in Creating Holistic Domestic Sex Trafficking Laws in Indiana	2018	25	.pdf	application/pdf	10583	640	56	Posting this information in a highly visible area gives victims of human trafficking, who are kept isolated, a greater chance to see this lifeline to safety.142 B. Safe Harbor At the federal level, the Trafficking Victims Protection Act already provides a safe harbor law for minors engaged in a commercial sexual act.143 A safe harbor provision within human trafficking law means anyone under the age of eighteen is automatically treated as a victim of trafficking, and the proof of “force, fraud and/or coercion” does not need to be present.144 Although this provision has been enacted at the federal level, it has not been adopted in all state laws.145 Therefore, not only are sex-trafficking victims often arrested and classified as sex offenders, but also some law enforcement officers think that arresting a minor for prostitution is the only way to mandate services and deal with sex trafficking, not understanding how this criminalization can have a negative long-term impact.146 THREE IMPROVEMENTS WITHIN CONNECTICUT’S HUMAN TRAFFICKING LAW Since 2006, twenty-nine federal indictments for human trafficking took place in Connecticut.91 However, there have been only two state-level human trafficking convictions.92 Most of the human trafficking cases in Connecticut concern sex trafficking.93 To strengthen its state law, Connecticut passed Public Act No. 16-71 in early 2016.94 The Act, which went into effect in October of 2016, was given the title “An Act Concerning Human Trafficking.”95	cache/inlawrev-22851.pdf	txt/inlawrev-22851.txt