No Trafficking Zones: Taking Back Our Schools and Communities

In this episode, Jacquelyn Aluotto, Co-Founder of No Trafficking Zone, details the groundbreaking work her organization has done to transform vulnerable spaces into active “No Trafficking Zones” through legislation, enforcement initiatives, and strategic partnerships.

From schools and foster care facilities to universities, sports stadiums, and major entertainment venues, No Trafficking Zone has pioneered real-world systems designed to deter traffickers, strengthen criminal penalties, and protect children before exploitation occurs.

Aluotto explains how the landmark No Trafficking School Zone Act in Texas established enhanced felony penalties for traffickers targeting children in and around schools, school-sponsored activities, and through digital grooming tactics conducted online.

The conversation also explores the organization’s expansion into large-scale sporting events and entertainment venues, where No Trafficking Zone has worked alongside law enforcement and response teams to monitor trafficking activity and combat exploitation tied to high-demand events.

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SPEAKER_00 0:15

Human trafficking is no longer a hidden crime operating far from our communities. Today, predators can reach children through schools, social media platforms, gaming apps, transportation systems, and even the devices sitting in our children's hands every single day. While many leaders are willing to acknowledge that child exploitation is a serious problem, far fewer are willing to confront the failures within our systems that continue to leave children vulnerable. My guest today, Jacqueline Eludo, co-founder of No Trafficking Zone, has dedicated her work to not only exposing these dangers, but to changing laws that strengthen protections for children. Through No Trafficking Zone, Jacqueline helped lead the passage of groundbreaking anti-trafficking legislation in Texas, including the No Trafficking School Zone Act, which increased penalties for traffickers targeting children in and around schools and school-sponsored activities. Their work later expanded protections to foster care facilities, universities, and ultimately contributed to legislation making the entire state of Texas a no trafficking zone. In this conversation, we discuss how traffickers exploit technology, how predators groom children online, why enforcement often falls short, and what parents and communities must understand in order to better protect children. This is an important discussion about accountability, prevention, and the urgent need to stop treating child exploitation as someone else's problem. Jacqueline, thank you so much for joining us today on Not On My Watch. It's a pleasure to have you here. Thank you so much for having me. I really appreciate it. So tell everybody in a practical term what no trafficking zone actually means. Sure.

SPEAKER_01 2:15

So human trafficking is a $526 billion business. And so, like any business, you have to break it down into markets, especially when it's this expansive. So when we created no trafficking zone, we had decided that we wanted to break down all of the different markets on human trafficking. Specifically, we started first with where children were being preyed upon. And then when we did those markets, we created no trafficking zones, no trafficking zones over those areas. So I'll give you an example of schools. Schools are a very large uh hunting ground for child predators. So we wanted to make schools in our trafficking zone. So what we did in Texas is we had set out with the law, uh No Trafficking School Zone Act, SB 1831. We wanted to make it a first-degree felony. If you trafficked any child uh while they were in school, not just in school, but any school-sponsored activities, um anything surrounding the school, a thousand circumference, which meant even if it was a football game, a debate, a prom, an after-school event, all of those are encompassed in the no-trafficking zones. But what made it even more powerful was uh these cell phone devices and computers. We had learned that when children were being trafficked from their schools, whether it was middle school or high school, a lot of times Uber and Lyfts were set up to pick them up. If you broke that zone with any technology, whether it was scheduling transportation or a social media app talking to them or a chat room trying to groom, recruit, or lower them, that created the No Trafficking Zone School Act. And why that was important is because traditionally with human trafficking, it's a low risk, high reward crime, meaning you can make $500,000 off of a victim a year and still get a slap on the wrist. So we wanted to deter the crime, make it a high risk where it's 25 to 99 years, and then um a lower reward, which then would deter the criminal activity because predators and traffickers look at it as a business. Uh that also meant implicating awareness signage in English and Spanish so that parents and students know their rights, and then also education prevention with it.

SPEAKER_00 4:45

Jacqueline, what has the response been from the school systems that you've experienced? Are the administrative staff, are they um uh so happy to help with this, or is it more of a hands-off um type of situation?

SPEAKER_01 5:03

So I think schools have a lot of pressure because they're dealing with so many different crimes, bullying, shootings, you know, sometimes terrorist threats. There's just all these different um issues that when we come in and talk to them in the past about there's human trafficking happening on your school, they were very worried and they were more worried about liability versus accountability. But we let them know that just like the school where Jeffrey Epstein had trafficked over 80 children out of, if you put your head in the sand, it doesn't go away. It's just not one kid or two kids or three kids that you're labeling as bad. It's kids that are being groomed and recruiting, recruited into the commercial sexual exploitation uh business. And once schools understand that and they understand that we want to work alongside of them, they're very responsive. Uh, the the other issue and challenge with schools is that you have your ISD police in Texas. And so even though they're police, they don't specialize in sex crimes or human trafficking, they also have to report to the school board. So a lot of times um their pressure is very different, where I really feel that all schools, if a crime it really happened, like a violent crime, it needs to go to your local sheriff or your PDs, and they have to investigate it uh so that really the investigation is properly being handled.

SPEAKER_00 6:32

Would you say we're dealing with isolated criminal acts with uh trafficking, or do you feel like this is an ecosystem that enables the exploitation?

SPEAKER_01 6:42

I think when you have a business that's $526 billion, it's definitely an ecosystem. Um, each market is different. Like, for example, in the schools, a lot of times it is peer networks and peer-on-peer exploitation that the traffickers and the recruiters send in, and that's a different process. Uh, sometimes we're the sexually oriented business. But human trafficking isn't an isolated crime for the most part. You will have drug trafficking involved in it, or kids or victims being introduced to drugs so that they can become addicted, more easily controlled, not even aware of their surroundings. With the larger networks, financial crime is always involved because you have to make that dirty money clean. So even if you're a one-off pimp, you have one or two victims, and that's a million dollars a year, you have to make that dirty money clean. So somehow you are laundering it, whether it's through bitcoins, a restaurant, a beauty business, a construction business, whatever you have to do, financial crimes do exist with human trafficking, and they will go hand in hand.

SPEAKER_00 7:52

You know, we've talked a lot with America's Future with our project Defend and Protect Children. We have a bulletin that comes out every month, and we offer resources for parents on technology and grooming. But I'm curious from your perspective, do you feel like predators are targeting children differently today than they were even just five years ago as technology continues to advance? Well, sure.

SPEAKER_01 8:18

I mean, the the difference is it was harder back in our day because you didn't have Uber or Lyft to pick up a child. You couldn't groom them and recruit them and make them feel comfortable. We have normalized kids talking through this phone and a screen, whether it's gaming, whether it's text messaging, they almost prefer it versus human um interaction. So they take for word what you say to them. Um they can pretend to be a child when they're really an adult. Whereas if if a if an adult approached a child getting off of a school bus, she may be startled right away. It's gonna take some time to groom her right there in person. Um you'd normally use a peer to do that or a female. Whereas the internet, you have seven billion people on the planet, and that means every predator and trafficker can study your kids on social media. If you got a divorce, if your grandmother just died, if you didn't make the football team, if you have autism, whatever your issues are, it's all played out now in the public. And what we're doing is we're giving predators and traffickers playbooks to our vulnerabilities because every single person has a vulnerability. And then from that vulnerability, they have a game plan for how they will groom and recruit us and push our boundaries.

SPEAKER_00 9:42

So you're saying that predators will monitor children and and the content that they're putting out on their social media to kind of analyze what they have or how to actually go after them?

SPEAKER_01 9:54

Sure, many of them do. You can give so much information from people, not just by social media, but people of what they put in comments, how they react to those comments, the kind of neighborhood that they live in. I mean, Facebook has apps for pedophile groups if they want specific kids that look a certain way in certain areas and regions. So technology has completely changed the whole system of how human traffickers and predators work.

SPEAKER_00 10:23

Well, and speaking of Facebook and having these predator groups, in your view, are tech companies doing enough to protect minors online? Because this is shocking to me to hear that they allow these predator groups on there and it's completely allowed?

SPEAKER_01 10:39

No, absolutely not. I mean, we've been fighting in Congress along with the National Center of Sexual Exploitation. It just goes on and on, the 230 provision. Um, basically, big tech hides under uh what's called uh the Decency Act, and it's ironic because there's nothing decent under this act. Somehow they have said that uh it violates people's First Amendment rights. When when that truly isn't the case, what we're asking for is regulation. We all know that if we post something wrong on social media that is not goes with the bylaws or the systems of these platforms, we get flagged. A lot of times we get flagged and we get locked out. What we're asking for social media platforms and big tech is to flag specific kind of um wording, how grooming and recruiting will look like, um, specific conversations that juveniles and kids shouldn't be having and then flag it. Um, a lot of these social media platforms they don't flag it. Also, you know, Google makes five cents off of every click. And if some of your biggest clicks are um CSAM, child sexual abuse abuse material, what are you really doing to fix that? Um, the scary part is, you know, most children have Google Chromebooks that their school supply, and Google has this rule, and I'm not quite sure everything that's on there, but it's like, hey, when you're 13, you don't need your parents to monitor that. Why are you even suggesting that to a child if you don't have a bad influence over them?

SPEAKER_00 12:16

Yeah, it's it's it's really it is so shocking because I I remember when the Chromebooks came out, I've got four children as well, and I remember how so many schools became Google Classroom schools, and every child was given the these Chromebooks, and it is really concerning because parents, you know, they're thinking, oh, it's safe, it's fine, it's all of this. And so do you feel like um parents, I I guess I should say, what digital behaviors children might have or express that parents should be immediately concerned if your child starts to suddenly act a certain way?

SPEAKER_01 12:58

Well, I think every parent needs to take a a class, um, a proper training because when we talk to parents that this has happened to, they're like, we can't believe it, not our kid. But kids aren't doing anything wrong, actually. We've programmed them to be this way, we've programmed them to communicate this way. Um what was not okay in our era is certainly okay in this era. I mean, just the way people go out and dress that kids are used to seeing now. They are so hypersexualized because this is all they see on TV, on social media, in person, at carnivals, at events. And so parents seem to think this won't happen to my kid. But the the issue is that traffickers and the way a predator thinks is methodical, it's their job to pray. Kids really don't stand a chance. I I like to give this analogy to say you wouldn't give your kid a key to your car for the first time at 13 and say, hey, go drive my my car around and not get a scratch on it. First of all, it's crazy that you would even give your child, a 13-year-old, a vehicle because it it's it's a responsibility. And second of all, to think that they wouldn't crash it. And so we're giving kids access to all of this information. And what it's done is we've set them up to fail. The average child in America who watches uh pornography is eight years old.

SPEAKER_00 14:34

Eight years old. So j that number that you just said, I believe maybe three years ago, it was 10. 10 years old was the youngest that I ever heard of, and now that number has dropped to eight. That's absolutely disturbing.

SPEAKER_01 14:49

And the scary thing is probably in three years, it's gonna drop to six if we don't if we don't implement measures and systems to make this happen. Um, and so what that tells eight-year-olds is first of all, they don't understand what they're looking at. It changes the chemistry in their brain because now they are exposed to exploitation. Pornography is very violent. So little girls will watch, oh, this is how a man or a boy is supposed to treat me being strangled, and this is how we tell boys that they're supposed to treat women and girls, and so everything is now changing and shifting because that's how they're identifying love, and that they're when they should be worrying about innocent things, they're thinking about sex, which also has led to more child on abuse cases because children are mimicking what they're seeing on other children, and so we are creating this whole spiral of just children continuing to be exploited and abused and trafficked over and over again and continuing to let it happen. We really do have to implement systems such as like what you asked. Parents need training. This is what this looks like. Parents need apps that if your kid is on the couch right next to you and you guys are both on your cell phone, because that happens plenty of times. Parents think nothing's gonna happen. I'm in the I'm in the same house as uh my um child, but they don't know that that predator could be saying, Hey, you're very mature for a 12-year-old. That language in itself should be a red flag. No other kid is gonna say to another kid, you're very mature. Um for their age. It's maybe once in a while, but it's not likely. Um, if your child starts keeping secrets from you, becomes very isolated, stops hanging out with their friends, um, becomes more agitated where you were once communicating with your child and now your child doesn't want to communicate with you um at all. All of the interests that they took things in, they no longer have interest in that sports or that or that arts club. Because the goal of predator is to change your identity to what they want. So their goal is to isolate you from everything that you've once identified with as your true self so that they can mold you into what they want you to become. And and parents need to understand that even if your kids are having these symptoms and it's not human trafficking, then it's bullying or something else, and it needs to be uh addressed so that you can help your child.

SPEAKER_00 17:29

I want to touch on legislation one more time because it's so important for people to understand that the justice system is uh not there yet in protecting our children. You mentioned the previous bill that was a Texas state bill. Um, but as far as the j the overall justice system, do you believe it is too weak right now?

SPEAKER_01 17:53

I do. And so um that was SB 1831 that passed in 2021. Um, it was the No Trafficking Uh School Zone Act, and that was uh first degree felonies to create no trafficking zones from in 2023. Then we passed HB 353 and 3554, which expanded it to all college campuses and universities, and then all um foster care facilities, because we know that over 60% of domestic minor sex trafficking victims will come from that system. Uh though those kids are very preyed upon. Uh, the foster care system, juvenile detentions, community daycare centers, um, residential treatment facility centers, and then in 2025, we passed SB 1212, which made all of the state of Texas a no trafficking zone. So now if you traffic anyone in the state of Texas, it's a first-degree felony. And the pushback we got every session for this, and this is why the system is so broken, was prosecutors would say, well, then we won't have any leverage for them to plead down or negotiate. But we were saying to them, you're not having traffickers in jail for a long time anyway. You're talking about men who have raped kids who are getting a slap on the wrist, getting five years, and then doing half of their time. So what we're saying is prosecutors need to learn how to do their job better when convicting human trafficking cases. And we know that it can happen because there are some districts federally that prosecute human trafficking and sex crime cases much better than others. And so the districts that are falling behind, they need to learn from the districts that are protecting um our public safety.

SPEAKER_00 19:46

What are do you think there are loopholes that the predators are actively exploiting in um when it comes to legislation?

SPEAKER_01 19:55

Sure. I mean, I think our justice system has a ton of loop loopholes. Technology is one of them, you know, and that's uh where they're really uh surging at because there are so many loopholes. I I I think that we have a very broken system. And the frustrating part is it's very easy to fix, but it needs to be implemented and needs to be fought for. We have a no-trafficking school zone bill in Congress that at the time Senator Dick Durbin blocked. Uh, he didn't feel that maybe the the the penalties matched some of the crimes, and we had a big issue with it. Um, he was the Democratic whip and he was very powerful. We're very happy that we see him now fighting against big tech and and doing better things. But what we really need to start doing uh for local, state, and federal is systematically seeing the elected officials that are blocking it. I'm not talking about the ones that speak about how horrific the crimes are, because everyone speaks about how horrific the crimes are. I'm talking about the ones that are literally blocking legislation that would implement systems into our justice system so that the innocent and the vulnerable wouldn't be preyed upon, yet we would hold accountable the predators. And I think that once we do that, things will change. Because when you have groups like big tech that fund and put money into the congressmen's and the senators' pockets, then they are fighting our bills where you see that sex tortion is over 5,000% up of girls and boys committing suicide, self-harming them themselves, be being trafficked. This is unacceptable. And any leader in our system who would turn their head because they're getting money for their seat, then we have to come together and organize to remove them from their seat. It's really that simple.

SPEAKER_00 22:02

Yeah. Well, you know, uh this topic in general, it it's a it's a hard topic to talk about. It's something that people, like you said, are are very quick to say, oh, this is terrible, this is terrible. But when they look into it more and they kind of see how deep corruption goes, as you just mentioned, where we can't get proper protection and laws passed. Why do you think there are some communities that hesitate to confront this issue directly?

SPEAKER_01 22:35

I think it's hard.

SPEAKER_00 22:36

Is it money interest, or is it no?

SPEAKER_01 22:38

I think it's many different reasons. You know, with some of our cases, we have kids that come from very affluent neighborhoods in their schools. And really the school and the elected officials that are over that district don't want to acknowledge it because they don't want to acknowledge that human trafficking is happening in that area. Law enforcement doesn't want to acknowledge that human trafficking is happening in that area. That can sway if they'll be voted in the next time, that can sway taxes, that can sway reputation. Uh, there's so many factors. Um, it's not just that people are getting money for it. Uh that that's just sadly one way. Um, the other one is really reputation and that this can't be happening in this community. Um, and then the other thing is sadly, the United States of America has quite a few predators, and they are not gonna come out publicly and say that they think it's okay, but clearly they think it's okay because they're profiting and participating from it.

SPEAKER_00 23:42

What role should businesses, you know, hotels, you mentioned Uber and Lyft before, transportation systems and event venues play in prevention. Do you know of anything happening with, I mean, I'm really interested in the transportation aspect. I mean, that's sure. Very scary to think that someone can order a car to pick my child up from somewhere and I wouldn't even know about it.

SPEAKER_01 24:06

Yeah, someone, a trafficker could send drugs to your house and say to your kid on Snapchat or Instagram, hey, do you want to try you want to try some, well, the kids would say weed, and that that could be laced with fentanyl just from delivering it to your door. Uh, so there's many different factors. Uh, I think that Uber's been very good with now becoming alongside more about human trafficking, and they understand that they're seeing so much, and so hopefully that they have a responsibility to help report that. Work with law enforcement, that's like very important. Uh, another thing for us, we're very lucky in Houston, NRG Stadium, which is now reliant, was the first no trafficking zone in 2020. So we couldn't pass laws at the time around sports stadiums, but we knew that there was a lot of human trafficking and exploitation that happens with entertainment and sports venues because as um demand rises, supply rises, you know. And at these events, you have a lot more of a demand. A lot of people are traveling, a lot of men without their their families to one location, and they want to, what they think is a good time, many times is human trafficking. And so as that demand will rise, supply will have to rise. Well, supply are is people. And so uh we were lucky to start the No Trafficking Zone Game Over Initiative in 2020, where we have a human trafficking response team where we work with the sheriff's office, and then with Haida, we do um analysts, analyze work to study, you know, ads to predatory behavior to see the way traffickers are moving in and out and around these stadiums and these events, which has been very helpful. It's it's one of the reasons why no trafficking zone is on the Atlanta, you know, World Cup part of task force, New Jersey Task Force.

SPEAKER_00 26:07

I think that is fantastic. I don't know of anybody else doing the things that you're doing, Jacqueline, when it comes to actually getting real uh decisive things happening in the law. Um, do you feel like you're one of the lone wolves out there, so to speak, of you know?

SPEAKER_01 26:27

I don't know. I don't know if I'm a lone wolf. We've been really blessed to, I feel like we're extremely effective. Whether it's creating laws for schools or foster care facilities, um, or a whole state, making a whole state a no trafficking zone, um, or when we create no trafficking zones, it's it's not always the implementation of legislation. It's the game over initiative, going around sports and entertainment venues, creating a model and a system like a human trafficking response team with our sheriff's office and and HIDA, which is the high-intensity drug trafficking area, analyzing ads and how they're working in and out of sports stadiums and around them. Uh, I feel like that's where we have been very effective. Um, we do a lot less of lip service and more implementing, which is the lane that we want to be in. I don't want to sit on a bunch of task forces that just sit around and talk and people have big titles and do nothing. We know what the problem is. We work with way too many victims in families where uh parents have lost their kids and have been murdered. Uh children are never the same, and it's unacceptable. And when we start studying them and seeing this happen over and over and over again, you start to ask yourself, why haven't we changed this? Like, not just laws, why are we not implementing systems so this doesn't happen? And a good example, you know, is the foster care facilities. We knew that in Texas, the pimps and traffickers are walking up to these shelters and facilities, picking up the kids and dropping them off. Kids who were coming back pregnant, on drugs, abused, yet the traffickers couldn't be arrested. Why? Why was that? And and to some degree, why are we freely letting kids go with men who have criminal background checks? Um, you know, and so it's just implementing simple things. The other thing, this last legislative session was we fought to make every institution or uh community center that handles children has to have background checks. In Texas, it used to be just the state-regulated ones that were getting funding. No, it has to be everyone. If I'm dropping off my child in your care and you're a center or you're a shelter, I just assume that that's mandated, that there's background checks. I it's just simple things. With schools, it was something so simple where kids were being trafficked in Texas and going under the radar because how the public school system works is the TEA gives money to the schools, so attendance stops at 10 o'clock. And traffickers knew that. So what they would do is they would have kids miss school, be trafficked during school time, and bring the kids back. And parents weren't getting flagged or alarmed. Again, it's something simple fighting for these changes and saying to your legislators, I expect you to do the job, your job. Now that you know this problem, this is the systems that we can implement to protect children. I'm gonna hold you accountable if it doesn't happen. And to Texas's, you know, to say thank you to our legislators, that they really have done it. They've passed all of these laws. Uh the biggest trick I feel in Texas is we have all these incredible laws, but we don't have certain district attorneys enforcing the laws. And that's what's really frustrating. Because I can tell you, the districts where a lot of human trafficking is happening, there shouldn't be these low conviction rates. But in some places there there are, and that's where your state has to come in, your attorney generals or your governors to say, hey, we need a state prosecutor, or um, we need the state to come in and take over this case, because it really is a question of public safety. It's not a question of Republican or Democrat. Trust me, when your kid goes missing, you don't care who is a Republican or a Democrat. You want your kid to be found. You want your kid to be healed. You want the people who have raped and trafficked your child to be put in jail. And that's the part of public safety that we have to say to people is why are we making public safety um a party issue? Why isn't every party and every community focused on public safety? Because our most vulnerable are being attacked and exploited.

SPEAKER_00 31:16

It's certainly not a left or a right issue. It's a humanity issue. And with that being said, so much work still needing to be done. Do you believe that America is becoming more dangerous for children because of the lack of follow-through from people who are in positions to make a change and haven't done so yet?

SPEAKER_01 31:36

Yes, I do. I mean, the crime of human trafficking has evolved so much, and it's not an isolated crime. It works in conjunction with, you know, like we said, drug trafficking, financial laundering. You could have your domestic gangs, your cartels, your one-off pimps, your criminal networks. There's so many people that are human trafficking because it is so profitable with a low-risk penalty. Um, that's a that's a big, big problem. And until we send this message out that traffickers are going to go to jail for life. We're not going to deter the crime. Because you can't tell someone, hey, you're going to make a lot of money and not be held accountable for it. You know, that's not how these criminals work. It's not like they have integrity or a conscience. Their goal is just to profit. And that's what people need to really understand is that it is a big business, and it's a big business that we really need to stop. Uh, with the United States, what I do love that I'm seeing is you have all these different states and these different leaders who are pushing now. They are changing laws. When we first passed the 2021 no trafficking bill, people were like, oh, this is sensationalized. You know, kids aren't being groomed or trafficked on schools. And now every headline is you see it. It's happening everywhere. And we had known it was because there was a model done. There was a study done by Thorne where 55% of trafficking survivors in Texas were first groomed, approached, or lured in connection to their school. Whether it was a person that introduced them to a a chat room on the internet or a party that they went to a school party or a dance or someone on a test hit, like a coach or a teacher. Yes. A coach, a teacher, exactly. Um, there's so many ways to get to kids in schools. And so we knew it because we were seeing it. And so it's exciting to see other states see it and recognize it and say we're gonna stop. With the sports stadiums, it was the same thing. We did that in 2020. We've just been more ahead of our time because we've been so boots on the ground that we get to study our data up close and personal because we're working directly with survivors and law enforcement and their families. We help law enforcement agencies build their cases so we know what we're seeing in real time. So we know what we have to create with no trafficking zones. Um, with the sports stadiums now in 2020, again, it was, oh, they're sensationalizing it. But now you see at all these targeted ops for these big events, how many recoveries are happening. Now, that doesn't mean that trafficking doesn't happen 364 days outside of the year. It absolutely does. But the different market for sports and entertainment there is for trafficking, we have to prevent and combat that too. Every market in human trafficking and exploitation has to have its own model, and within that model, it has to be a prevention and intervention and then a dismantling of it while we're figuring out how do we have victims heal. The the issue that we find with that is that that's a very a lot of work, you know. Um we and it takes time. It takes a lot of time, it takes a lot of work. NTZ, we are not a check the box organization, we're a create the box organization, that's our our tagline. Um, because when we've been on the front lines working with families and community leaders and survivors and law enforcement, it's so frustrating for someone to rape and traffic a child and then get off and know that they're going to do it again and again and again because we have a broken system or we have an inept district attorney or prosecutor. No, that's unacceptable. Like you have a job to do, and we're gonna hold you accountable to do that job, but there's just a long process because in the justice system and even what we do, we all have a job. Parents have a job, teachers have have a job, schools. And so if one if one person doesn't do their job, the whole system can fail. And so it's implementing a structure that doesn't lead people to fail.

SPEAKER_00 36:14

Jacqueline, it's been so great to talk with you today and hear about everything that you guys are doing with No Trafficking Zone. It's absolutely incredible. Thank you so much for joining us on Not On My Watch. I'm sorry we're out of time for today, but we're glad that you were here and we're so thankful for the incredible work that you're doing. And um, I'd love to encourage everyone to check out your website. So please tell everybody where to go to get more information or if they would like to join your efforts and help you or set up something like this in their state.

SPEAKER_01 36:44

Sure. On LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, it's no traffickingzone.org. And that's the same to find um the website is no traffickingzone.org. Thank you so much for having me. I really appreciate it.

SPEAKER_00 36:58

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