PROTECTED INNOCENCE INITIATIVE

The Protected Innocence Initiative is a comprehensive strategy to promote zero tolerance for child sex trafficking. In partnership with the American Center for Law &Justice, Shared Hope International conducted a comprehensive analysis of each state’s existing laws. The Protected Innocence Legislative Framework solely evaluates a state’s existing laws and does not evaluate enforcement or implementation.

The methodology was vetted by experts in the anti-trafficking field including Ambassador Mark Lagon (U.S. Department of State, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons 2007-2009) and directors from the following organizations: the National District Attorneys Association; American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law; the Protection Project at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies; ECPAT-USA; Children at Risk, Houston, Texas; and A Future Not a Past, Atlanta, Georgia.

• Methodology
• Fact Sheet
• Legislative Framework Analysis and Recommendations (see below)
  (research based on enacted legislation as of 8/1/11)*
• Protected Innocence Challenge: State Report Cards on the Legal Framework of Protection for the Nation's Children, 2011
• Issue Briefs - An in-depth look at the 40 components of law that were analyzed for the Protected Innocence Challenge Report Cards.
• Watch the Executive Briefing webcast!

Click on states below to access individual state Report Cards and analysis/recommendations

Alabama PII Report Card Analysis & Recommendations Fact Sheet Alaska PII Report Card Analysis & Recommendations Fact Sheet Arizona PII Report Card Analysis & Recommendations Fact Sheet Arkansas PII Report Card Analysis & Recommendations Fact Sheet California PII Report Card Analysis & Recommendations Fact Sheet Colorado PII Report Card Analysis & Recommendations Fact Sheet Connecticut PII Report Card Analysis & Recommendations Fact Sheet Delaware PII Report Card Analysis & Recommendations Fact Sheet Florida PII Report Card Analysis & Recommendations Fact Sheet Georgia PII Report Card Analysis & Recommendations Fact Sheet Hawaii PII Report Card Analysis & Recommendations Fact Sheet Idaho PII Report Card Analysis & Recommendations Fact Sheet Illinois PII Report Card Analysis & Recommendations Fact Sheet Indiana PII Report Card Analysis & Recommendations Fact Sheet Iowa PII Report Card Analysis & Recommendations Fact Sheet Kansas PII Report Card Analysis & Recommendations Fact Sheet Kentucky PII Report Card Analysis & Recommendations Fact Sheet	Louisiana PII Report Card Analysis & Recommendations Fact Sheet Maine PII Report Card Analysis & Recommendations Fact Sheet Maryland PII Report Card Analysis & Recommendations Fact Sheet Massachusetts PII Report Card Analysis & Recommendations Fact Sheet Michigan PII Report Card Analysis & Recommendations Fact Sheet Minnesota PII Report Card Analysis & Recommendations Fact Sheet Mississippi PII Report Card Analysis & Recommendations Fact Sheet Missouri PII Report Card Analysis & Recommendations Fact Sheet Montana PII Report Card Analysis & Recommendations Fact Sheet Nebraska PII Report Card Analysis & Recommendations Fact Sheet Nevada PII Report Card Analysis & Recommendations Fact Sheet New Hampshire PII Report Card Analysis & Recommendations Fact Sheet New Jersey PII Report Card Analysis & Recommendations Fact Sheet New Mexico PII Report Card Analysis & Recommendations Fact Sheet New York PII Report Card Analysis & Recommendations Fact Sheet North Carolina PII Report Card Analysis & Recommendations Fact Sheet North Dakota PII Report Card Analysis & Recommendations Fact Sheet	Ohio PII Report Card Analysis & Recommendations Fact Sheet Oklahoma PII Report Card Analysis & Recommendations Fact Sheet Oregon PII Report Card Analysis & Recommendations Fact Sheet Pennsylvania PII Report Card Analysis & Recommendations Fact Sheet Rhode Island PII Report Card Analysis & Recommendations Fact Sheet South Carolina PII Report Card Analysis & Recommendations Fact Sheet South Dakota PII Report Card Analysis & Recommendations Fact Sheet Tennessee PII Report Card Analysis & Recommendations Fact Sheet Texas PII Report Card Analysis & Recommendations Fact Sheet Utah PII Report Card Analysis & Recommendations Fact Sheet Vermont PII Report Card Analysis & Recommendations Fact Sheet Virginia PII Report Card Analysis & Recommendations Fact Sheet Washington PII Report Card Analysis & Recommendations Fact Sheet Washington D.C. PII Report Card Analysis & Recommendations Fact Sheet West Virginia PII Report Card Analysis & Recommendations Fact Sheet Wisconsin PII Report Card Analysis & Recommendations Fact Sheet Wyoming PII Report Card Analysis & Recommendations Fact Sheet

* NOTE: portions of this project are still being finalized