COMMISSION 
AGENDA MEMORANDUM                        Item No.          8a 
BRIEFING ITEM                            Date of Meeting        July 24, 2018 
DATE:     June 26, 2018 
TO:        Stephen P. Metruck, Executive Director 
FROM:    Eric Schinfeld, Sr. Manager, Federal & International Government Relations 
SUBJECT:  Six-Month Progress Report on Port-wide Human Trafficking Strategy Implementation 
ACTION REQUESTED 
Request Commission extension of  training and public awareness campaign  deadlines for
completion of actions identified in the January 9 human trafficking motion (Motion 2018-01) to
December 31, 2018. 
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 
On January 9, the Port of Seattle Commission passed a motion directing staff to finalize and
implement  a Port-wide strategy to combat human trafficking. By taking that step, the
Commission has increased our organization's leadership role on this important topic, for which
we not only have a moral obligation to protect residents and visitors but also a tangible role
because of our status as both a large employer and as the manager of significant trade and
travel facilities. 
We have made substantial progress in all aspect of our strategy's implementation  from the
creation of an internal policy to ensure our all employees understand our commitment to this
vital equity and social justice issue to trainings that have reached hundreds of Port employees.
Importantly, we have also developed some key partnerships with other regional public and
private sector leaders that will allow us to maximize our impact in reducing human trafficking in
our region. 
While we could have completed most of the strategy tactics by now, we have decided instead
to take a slower approach to allow for more partner engagement. For example, the Port has
been ready since March to conduct our own public awareness campaign, but instead is waiting
on the City of Seattle, Sound Transit and King County to go through their internal process so
that we can do a regional collaboration on this effort instead. Similarly, we are engaging local
nonprofits to develop training curriculum and materials rather than doing it ourselves to ensure
widespread community engagement in this work. Given that change in strategy, staff is
requesting that the Commission extend the deadlines for the public awareness campaign and
staff training efforts until the end of the year. 
DETAILS 
Scope of Work 

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In particular, the Port's human trafficking strategy has four main focus areas: 
1)  Training  Ensuring that all employees have access to the proper training and education
to understand both what human trafficking is as well as its impacts on our communities. 
2)  Communications  Utilizing port facilities and communications channels to raise public
awareness of human trafficking, and provide information to stop trafficking taking place
at our facilities. 
3)  Partnerships  Leveraging relationships to reduce duplication and to maximize the
impact of our efforts, including collaborating with nonprofits; local, state and federal
agencies; and key customers and vendors. 
4)  Policies & Protocols    Ensuring  that Port policies prohibit engagement in human
trafficking, and provide clear procedures for employees to follow to report suspicion of
human trafficking and violations of these policies. 
Schedule 
The Commission's January motion lays out the following deadlines for implementation 
By March 31, 2018, staff shall finalize a comprehensive strategy and implement an initial
set of actions, including but not limited to: 
o  developing a curriculum and planning trainings for the most relevant Port
employees; 
o  joining key alliances and committees to ensure the Port's engagement on this
topic regionally; 
o  conducting initial awareness raising through media and communications efforts to
users of the Port's facilities and local residents; and 
o  advocating at the state and federal level for policy changes that further the Port's
and region's human trafficking reduction efforts. 
By June 30, 2018, staff shall implement substantial aspects of the Port's comprehensive
anti-trafficking strategy, including but not limited to: 
o  developing a curriculum and planning for making training broadly available to all
Port employees; 
o  ensuring that Port policies and our Code of Conduct fully restricts employee
engagement in any aspect of trafficking; 
o  installing signage in Port facilities that helps increase awareness of this issue and
reduces trafficking in our region; and 
o  exploring implementation of a final tier of tactics. 
By December 31, 2018, staff shall have begun implementation of those final tier tactics
that not only are most achievable but also have the broadest return on investment in
terms of multiplying the Port's impact on reducing human trafficking. In particular, staff
should focus on collaborations with tenants, vendors, concessionaires, contractors and
partners such as the Northwest Seaport Alliance. 
To best summarize our progress to-date, staff have created the below matrix. 
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Required Tactic      January     Completed          Specific               Next Steps 
Motion                Accomplishments 
Deadline 
Developing a      March 31,    No            The Port has held     Work with Port
curriculum,        2018                          three trainings for      Police on the
planning                                       Port employees        implementation of
trainings for key                                    (including one          their training plan. 
Port employees                                 specifically for Port   Request Commission
(mainly law                                      police), reaching       update their motion
enforcement)                                  over 200              to make this a
employees            December 31, 2018
The Trafficking         deadline. 
Training
Subcommittee has
finalized an RFP to
request outside
help in developing
and conducting
trainings 
The Police
Department has
developed a
curriculum for all
officers that they
will begin to roll
out at the end of
the year. 
Joining key         March 31,     Yes           The Port has joined     The Port will host the
alliances and       2018                        Businesses Against     2018 Statewide
committees                                 Slavery and           Commercially Sexually
Trafficking's             Exploited Children's
Employer Alliance,     Task Force Conference 
the King County        at the Sea-Tac
Commercially         Conference Center in
Sexually Exploited      October 2018. 
Children Task Force
and the Washington
Advisory Committee
on Trafficking. We
also sponsored a
table at the 2018
Stolen Youth
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Luncheon. 
Conducting       March 31,    Yes          Held a press          Planning for similar
initial awareness   2018                        conference to          activities when we
raising                                                announce our            launch our regional
initiative, and posted   public awareness
signage at Sea-Tac     campaign, and for the
throughout January    January 2019 Human
in honor of Human     Trafficking Awareness
Trafficking              Month. 
Awareness Month. 
Advocating for     March 31,    Yes          Engaged with state     Working with key state
policy changes     2018                        and federal             advocates to identify
stakeholders to        opportunities for Port
evaluate key pieces    engagement during the
of legislation;            2019 legislative
included trafficking in  session. 
the 2018 federal
policy agenda. 2018
saw the passage of
the federal Stop
Enabling Sex
Traffickers Act, and
the federal closure of
Backpage.com. 
Developing a      June 30,      No           The Trafficking          Release the training
curriculum,        2018                       Training                  RFP, and solicit
planning                                    Subcommittee has        proposals for the
trainings for all                                     finalized an RFP to         contract 
Port employees                              request outside help     Request Commission
in developing and         update their motion
conducting trainings.      to make this a
December 31, 2018
deadline. 
Ensuring Port      June 30,      Yes           The Port is finalizing    Education about the
policies restrict     2018                           an Executive Policy      policy will be
engagement in                             that outlines the      incorporated into the
trafficking                                           restriction on            training curriculum. 
trafficking activity. 
Installing signage   June 30,       No             The Port has           Launch the regional
in Port facilities     2018                               formed a                 public awareness
to increase                                       partnership with       campaign in the
awareness                                     the City of Seattle,     coming months. 
King County          Hang the
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(including Metro),      trafficking/sexual
Sound Transit and     assault signage in the
others to conduct      coming months. 
a regional public      Request Commission
awareness           update their motion
campaign, based      to make this a
on King County's       December 31, 2018
successful 2013        deadline. 
campaign. We are
working with the
group to finalize
the exact timing of
the campaign. 
The Port is
partnering with
the FBI and the US
Attorney's office
to increase public
awareness of both
trafficking and inflight
sexual
assault, including
signage on Sea-Tac
bathroom stall
doors and a joint
press conference. 
The signage for
both campaigns is
designed, and
circulating to
partners for final
approval. 
Exploring          June 30,      Yes           Key conversations      Continue to make
implementation   2018                     have already begun    progress on
of a final tier of                                       on topics such as        implementing these
tactics                                                offering trafficking      tactics. 
training to non-Port
employees working
at our facilities,
leveraging new
technologies to help
people report
trafficking, and
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extending these
efforts to the NW
Seaport Alliance. 
We are also pleased to have hired a Port Veterans Fellow, Chad Aldridge, who will spend the
rest of 2018 staffing this effort to ensure its successful completion. While we have made
substantial progress, we will not meet all deadlines set by the Commission motion, and request
that timelines be updated for remaining items to reflect the new expectation of deliverables. 
ADDITIONAL BACKGROUND 
Although slavery is commonly thought to be a thing of the past, each year millions of men,
women, and children are trafficked in countries around the world, including the United States.
Traffickers use violence, threats, deception, debt bondage, and other manipulative tactics to
force people to engage in commercial sex or to provide labor or services against their will. It is
estimated that human trafficking generates billions of dollars of profit per year  second only to
drug trafficking as the most profitable form of transnational crime. 
Here in Washington state, we are not immune from the problem. Washington had the 14th
highest call volume to the National Human Trafficking Hotline in 2015. In King County, an
estimated 300-500 children are prostituted annually, some are as young as 11 years old; there
are over 100 websites for soliciting sex in the Seattle area, many of which are used for human
trafficking purposes. 
As both the operator of an airport and an owner of a wide array of maritime facilities, we can
help reduce the probability that our properties will be used as a transit point for traffickers and
their victims. As a major employer, we can save lives by educating our staff on the damaging
effect that exploitation and trafficking have on individual lives and families, and how it
undermines our commitment to equity and social justice. As a public sector leader, we can
collaborate with other jurisdictions, customers, vendors and partners to raise awareness of this
important issue. 
ATTACHMENTS TO THIS BRIEFING 
(1)   January 9 Commission Human Trafficking Motion 
(2)   Port Human Trafficking Strategy 
(3)   Presentation slides 
PREVIOUS COMMISSION ACTIONS OR BRIEFINGS 
January 9, 2018  The Commission passed a motion directing staff to finalize and
implement the Port's human trafficking strategy. 


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