Our children are at risk of human trafficking – and what’s worse? Criminals are being released EARLY from prison, because it’s not considered a “violent” crime.

Under current California law, human trafficking of a child is NOT classified as “violent” crime. 

As a career prosecutor, it’s despicable.

Human trafficking is considered a nonviolent crime under the penal code. Therefore, people who are convicted of those crimes are now getting out of prison early. 

So again it goes back to early prison release. We must hold those individuals accountable for these horrific crimes they're committing against our citizens of California.

We must combat human trafficking on two fronts.

1. Prevention: We must work with our communities across California to prevent victims of human trafficking through education, awareness, resources and services. 
2. Prosecution: We must be aggressive in our investigations and our prosecutions.

As the next Attorney General, I will aggressively advocate to change the laws, so that we classify those crimes exactly as they are:  Violent Crimes.