Human Trafficking Hotline Now Operational in Ohio

(ONN) – Ohio’s first statewide human trafficking hotline is now operational.

The non-emergency hotline number forwards incoming information about suspected sex trafficking and forced labor directly to law enforcement, connecting the caller with people experienced in investigating such allegations.

It is operated 24 hours a day by the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation, whose criminal intelligence analysts evaluate information and pass it on to local law enforcement agencies and human trafficking task forces organized under the auspices of the Attorney General’s Ohio Organized Crime Investigation Commission and/or BCI Special Victims. Unit.

The hotline number is 8-4-4-end-OHHT.