Lynette Parker and Ruth Silver Taube wrote an op-ed for the San Jose Mercury News about how, even outside of big events such as the Super Bowl, the Bay Area already has a persistent problem of labor trafficking. Since 2006, in the South Bay, law enforcement and the South Bay Coalition to End Human Trafficking have identified and assisted more than 300 victims of human trafficking – defined as forced labor of any kind that includes threats of reputational, financial, physical, or other personal harm. Read the op-ed.