The National Human Trafficking Hotline identified 15,085 trafficking cases in 2025, up 26% in a year, and signals jumped 63%. This briefing maps where cases concentrate, documents enforcement in every state, and shows how The Shield Project and ATRC keep survivors from falling through the gaps between agencies.
States are shaded by hotline-identified trafficking cases per 100,000 residents. Each glow is a documented operation, prosecution or new law; red marks cases involving minors, and blinking marks the last four months.
Recent enforcement and prosecutions, newest first. Red cards involved minors.
The Shield Project is BB2G's anti-trafficking education system: five books, a digital platform and companion training, written for the people closest to a child.
Ages 9 to 12. Body safety, online safety and trusted adults, taught through stories children remember.
Ages 12 to 18. Grooming, sextortion, fake job offers and how to get help without shame.
Warning signs in the classroom, mandated reporting and how to bring in the right agency.
Phones, apps, gaming and the conversations that keep a child talking to you.
Youth ministry safeguards, volunteer screening and survivor-centered care in a congregation.
A digital platform and companion training materials, with expert reviewers checking every module before release.
Each PIN opens its own profile with its own apps. A hidden switcher keeps profiles separate.
A clean profile for school, family or a phone check, with nothing a trafficker can use.
A duress PIN backs the data up first, then wipes the device, so evidence survives and the phone holds nothing.
ATRC coordinates the organizations that already serve survivors. It follows public money to outcomes, connects courts and advocates, and reports to executives without exposing a single survivor.
Public grants and provider contracts tracked from award to result, so dollars reach survivors.
Vetted shelters, clinics, legal aid and survivor-led organizations, mapped by state and county.
A coordinator walks each survivor's case through hearings, protective orders and restitution.
Advocates and child advocacy centers linked to every referral that involves a minor.
Foster care, reunification, safe housing and peer advocates, kept separate from trafficking allegations.
Lawful aggregate reporting for governors, attorneys general and task forces.
Research uses public records and lawful institutional referrals, with every source preserved.
Licensed investigators and authorized partners work inside written boundaries.
Compensated survivor advisors review the program, the materials and the reporting.
Every finding can be challenged, corrected and logged.
Each state gets its own workspace, roles and law profile.
Every access, export and decision is written to an append-only ledger.
A survivor's path from first tip to stable recovery crosses police, prosecutors, child welfare, shelters, clinics, courts and schools. If every handoff works 95% of the time, the whole chain holds only 36% of the time. Move the sliders.
With BB2G, every handoff must be confirmed. Checkpoints catch 99% of dropped or wrong handoffs and hold them for a named person instead of letting them disappear.
Rank 1 has the most hotline-identified trafficking cases per 100,000 residents in 2025. Select a column to re-sort.
The most significant recent documented case or action in each jurisdiction, newest first, each linked to its source. No victim is named.
2025 hotline cases and signals, and the documented case or action in each jurisdiction.
How recruitment becomes exploitation, and the points where trained adults, coordinated agencies and audited funding stop it.
Start in the priority region, prove it, then scale state by state.
Authorize a scoping session with the state anti-trafficking task force to set owners, data boundaries and success measures for a Shield Project pilot.