"Anytime we engage more of the community, then we have more eyes and ears helping to stop this," added Dottie Laster, Executive Director of the Heidi Search Center.

Users can submit four photos from inside their hotel room, and law enforcement has access to those pictures. Investigators across the United States can cross-reference the photos with hotel photos of trafficking victims that typically appear on-line.

The developers of the TraffickCam app say the idea behind the app is to develop something to assist police with a quicker rescue for victims of sex trafficking.

So far the app is getting a thousand pictures a day, and has more than 1.5 million photos in the database.

"However, it’s progressed into so much more, because we realize now that prosecutors can also utilize the app for evidence against pimps, especially if we can prove that the girls have been trafficked across state lines, then we can get federal charges," said Kimberly Ritter, Director of Development with the Exchange Initiative.

Dottie Laster, who also has more than a decade of experience in human trafficking, says even though she can’t access the pictures, she knows how vital they can be.

"In the case I worked on recently, it had very unique bathtubs. On our own we took pictures and did some human intelligence and figured out where the bathtubs were and we did find the victim, so it can be hugely effective," added Laster.

The TraffickCam app doesn’t save any personal information about your hotel say, and you could help save a life.

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