CA AB2843

Creates the Regional Task Forces Against Human Trafficking Grant Program under the Office of Emergency Services to assist local and tribal governments in creating multiagency task forces to eliminate human trafficking, upon appropriation by the Legislature.

Grants awarded on competitive basis only to counties that have adopted a resolution to create a multiagency, multijurisdictional task force focused on victim identification, victim-centered investigations, victim services, and public awareness regarding human trafficking.

Grant funds must be used exclusively to enhance local law enforcement and prosecutor capacity to identify, investigate, and prosecute human trafficking crimes and provide support services to survivors; funds cannot offset reductions in other funding sources.

Counties receiving grants must submit annual fiscal year-end reports to the Office of Emergency Services by August 1 detailing grant expenditures, arrests, prosecutions, convictions, and number of survivors rescued and connected to services; counties failing to report lose eligibility for one year.

Office of Emergency Services must submit annual revenue and expenditure summary to the Legislature by January 1 of each year, broken down by county, including arrest data, survivor information, and unexpended funds; counties with funds used inconsistently with program purposes lose eligibility for one year.