HI SB1347

Requires the Hawaii Department of Education to offer training for teachers, educational officers, and school-based personnel (including behavioral health specialists, security, custodial, and support staff) on sex trafficking prevention and response.

Training must cover methods used to lure children into trafficking, victim identification, health effects, disparate impacts on different racial/ethnic groups and LGBTQ+ youth, prevention strategies, trauma-informed response techniques, victim resources, and the importance of enthusiastic consent.

Mandates the Department provide explanatory information about approved protocols for serving sex trafficking victims to all covered school staff at the beginning of each school year.

Authorizes the Department to coordinate and contract with state/county agencies, victim service providers, and other sex trafficking experts to implement the training program.

Becomes effective July 1, 2051.