{"id":1436,"date":"2021-12-09T14:57:29","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T19:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/human-trafficking\/?p=1436"},"modified":"2023-11-07T16:42:24","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T21:42:24","slug":"ali-boak-director-for-gcht-provides-insight-on-human-trafficking-bills-before-nj-legislature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/human-trafficking\/2021\/12\/09\/ali-boak-director-for-gcht-provides-insight-on-human-trafficking-bills-before-nj-legislature\/","title":{"rendered":"Ali Boak, Director for GCHT, provides insight on human trafficking bills before NJ legislature."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four bills that aim to increase protection for victims of human trafficking in New Jersey have been put forth by two members of the state legislature. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/profilepages\/view_profile.php?username=boaka\">Ali Boak<\/a>, director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/human-trafficking\/\">Global Center for Human Trafficking<\/a> provides insight on these bills in this <a href=\"https:\/\/newjerseymonitor.com\/2021\/11\/30\/bipartisan-bills-aim-to-protect-victims-of-human-trafficking\">article by New Jersey Monitor.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"red\"><p>Prosecutions really are only as successful as the cooperation of the victims. Removing the statute of limitations gives victims more time to heal and recover before being involved in a prosecution. Victims are the best witnesses when they have the protections of a law. \u2013 Ali Boak<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/human-trafficking\/about-us\/\">human trafficking and GCHT&#8217;s mission<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four bills that aim to increase protection for victims of human trafficking in New Jersey have been put forth by two members of the state legislature. Ali Boak, director of the Global Center for Human Trafficking provides insight on these bills in this article by New Jersey Monitor. Prosecutions really are only as successful as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":1454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-center-for-human-trafficking","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/human-trafficking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/human-trafficking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/human-trafficking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/human-trafficking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/human-trafficking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1436"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/human-trafficking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1450,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/human-trafficking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions\/1450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/human-trafficking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/human-trafficking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/human-trafficking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/human-trafficking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}