At the 11th Hour..(As usual)...... USDOT Advisory Committee on Human Trafficking: Nominations Close Oct 7!

U.S. Department of Transportation, Advisory Committee on Human Trafficking:  Nominations   Close on Friday, October 7 The U.S. Department of Transportation is seeking nominations for aviation, bus, maritime, port,  rail, trucking, law enforcement, lived experience, and NGO representatives for membership in  the Department of Transportation Advisory Committee on Human Trafficking (ACHT).  The goal of this committee is to provide information, advice, and recommendations on the  intersection of human trafficking and transportation. Applications must be received on or before 5:00 p.m. ET on October 7, 2022. View the Federal Register Notice for further details.   For questions, contact trafficking@dot.gov. BACKGROUND The ACHT was reestablished on July 29, 2022 as a requirement of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law  (BIL) (P. L. 117-58).  Sec. 23020 of the BIL requires the ACHT to produce a triennial  counter-trafficking report with recommendations for countering human trafficking, an assessment of  best practices by transportation stakeholders, and human trafficking violations involving commercial  motor vehicles. The committee was initially established as mandated by Sec. 5(a)  of the 2018 Combating Human Trafficking in Commercial Vehicles Act (P.L. 115-99).   The 2018-2020 ACHT submitted their final report on Combating Human Trafficking in the  Transportation Sector on July 2, 2019.   GET RESOURCES SIGN UP     USDOT Counter-Trafficking Initiative U.S. Department of Transportation Office of International Transportation and Trade transportation.gov/stophumantrafficking trafficking@dot.gov