Missouri

The St. Louis Community Foundation in Clayton is funding TraffickCam, an initiative to thwart sex trafficking by using crowdsourced snapshots of hotel rooms as an aid to law enforcement efforts to locate victims and prosecute traffickers, CNN reports. The brainchild of Exchange Initiative and a team of researchers at Washington University, the initiative has added more than a hundred and fifty thousand hotels to its database and has over a hundred thousand people using the app. Following initial testing in the St. Louis area, officials are optimistic that the app can be replicated by law enforcement agencies across the country.

Philanthropy News Update ©February 2017