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Carrie Q. Soubal <CarrieQSoubal@MiamiSAO.com>
Monday, December 23, 2019 12:47 PM
Penaranda, Susana; Vickers, Milton
Katherine Fernandez Rundle; Sandra Lawrence; Sharon Savoldy
City of Miami Funding for the State Attorney's Office Human Trafficking Rapid Response
Net Program
City of Miami - Rapid Response Net Investigator Budget.xlsx
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Florida ranks third in the United States for human trafficking. Here in Florida, girls are entrapped in the sex
trade, taken right from under our noses. They are often runaways, foster care girls, and the "throw away"
kids, picked up, manipulated, coerced and afraid to seek help. The Miami -Dade State Attorney's Office (SAO)
has been a leader in combatting human trafficking, establishing a dedicated Human Trafficking Unit in
2012. The SAO's innovative trauma -informed law enforcement model for the investigation and prosecution of
human trafficking utilizes highly trained specialized prosecutors, investigators and victim specialists. The
SAO's dual track approach seeks to not only successfully prosecute abusers, but to help victims heal.
In November, 2018, The State Attorney's Office opened their Institute for Coordination, Advocacy, and
Prosecution (ICAP). This is the first center to ever house prosecutors, investigators and victim services in one
building working with victims of human trafficking. The Institute was designed to enhance the victim centered
approach taken by the SAO in their investigations and prosecutions of human trafficking cases. The Institute
also serves as a "triage center" when victims of human trafficking are recovered and investigations
commence.
The Rapid Response Net with a dedicated local State Attorney's Office Human Trafficking Hotline # launched a
Stop Sex Trafficking Campaign on November 6, 2019 in collaboration with the Miami Super Bowl Host
Committee, and The Miami -Dade Women' Fund leading up to, through and beyond, Super Bowl LIV in Miami
in February, 2020. The Stop Sex Trafficking Campaign is an unprecedented public awareness and education
drive. It is designed to strategically generate highly targeted and coordinated social media, digital marketing,
outdoor campaigns, and in -transit communications to activate a "super force" of citizen, community, and
corporate partner "see -and -report" responders. Said responders will be educated to identify possible "victims
hidden in plain sight," and report incidences to the Rapid Response Net with the goal of recovering victims and
providing them with essential services, such as intake, placement, or relocation assistance, transportation to
emergency shelters of other safe locations, as well as coordinating with law enforcement and medical
providers. Hotlines are often the safest and most efficient tools for callers to access emergency services. The
campaign advertises and directs callers to a dedicated local State Attorney's Office Human Trafficking Hotline
Number operational 24 hours, 7 days a week. The Hotline will service as the initial point of contact for victims,
law enforcement, The Department of Children & Families, social service agencies and families. The victim
specialists will among other things, assess victims' immediate needs, complete data sheets, and provide crisis
counseling and safety planning. They will provide the victims a continuum of care case management approach
from the inception of the referral process through recovery and a life free of exploitation.
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In an effort to increase services for victims of human trafficking, The Children's Trust has partnered with The
State Attorney's Office to support the Stop Sex Trafficking Campaign and other anti -human trafficking
efforts. The funds invested by The Children's Trust will support the investigator supervisor and the overtime
compensation of the on -call victim specialists. The victim specialists are responsible for answering all calls,
signals, texts, online tips, chats and emails related to human trafficking. The ICAP will operate 24/7. We are
very appreciative of the support The Children's Trust has provided in this collaboration.
We are grateful to The City of Miami for collaborating in this fight against human trafficking and offering
funding in the amount of $10,000.00 towards the on -going investigation and prosecution of this horrendous
crime. We are requesting this funding to support the overtime hours of The State Attorney's Office
investigator who is handling Rapid Response Net investigations. If you have any questions or need additional
information
please do not hesitate to contact me. Attached is the Budget.
Thank you
Carrie Q. Soubal
Operations Advisor
Miami -Dade State Attorney's Office
305-547-3363
Carrieqsoubal@miamisao.com
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State Attorney's Office Rapid Response Net
Investigator Overtime Budget
Salary $ 70,000.00
Hourly Overtime Rate @ time and a half $ 50.48
Benefits:
FICA @ 7.65% $ 3.86
Retirement @ 24.50% $ 12.37
Total Hourly Rate $ 66.71
150 Hours of Overtime @ $66.71 $ 10,000.00