Public Law 113-183, Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act, requires child welfare staff to identify and report all youth whose experience seems to meet the Minnesota definition of commercial sexual exploitation. The law requires documentation of reporting to law enforcement. It must also be reported whether the incident happened before or during the current continuous placement. Public Law 114-22, Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act, requires child welfare staff to identify and report all youth who are identified as sex trafficking victims under state law.

SEY: Commercial sexual exploitation is a type of sexual exploitation that means the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, obtaining, patronizing, or soliciting of a person for the purpose of a sex act in exchange for or with the promise of anything of value. 22 U.S.C. 7102(12).

STY: Sex trafficking is defined in Minnesota law as the act of a third party, not the purchaser or the victim, facilitating or profiting from a commercial sex act performed by another person. Minn. Stat. 609.321-609.322.

Enter the date when the agency cross reported the alleged commercial sexual exploitation or sex trafficking to a law enforcement agency.

Foster care includes any continuous placement documented in SSIS by the agency at any time in the child’s life.

Select yes if the alleged commercial sexual exploitation or sex trafficking occurred before the child entered the most recent continuous placement as documented in SSIS.

Select yes if the alleged commercial sexual exploitation or sex trafficking occurred while the child was in the most recent continuous placement as documented in SSIS.