This week law enforcement officers from around the northwest will converge in Missoula for training on how to spot and prevent human trafficking and the community is asked to help too.
January is National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month. Police Detective Guy Baker said sex trafficking occurs everywhere, even in Missoula.
Polaris has released state by state numbers from their Human Trafficking Hotline, and calls reporting human trafficking in Montana were fewer in 2016 than in 2015.
This is National Human Trafficking Awareness Week, and two individuals in Missoula are working in their own fields to end the modern scourge of human slavery.
A 34-year-old Missoula man with a previous state conviction for promoting prostitution has denied federal charges that allege he forced two women into sex trafficking.