Please join us for an upcoming training on Survivors First Act vacatur petitions, to be held on March 10, 2025 from 9-11am via Zoom. This training is an exciting opportunity for attorneys to learn the knowledge and skills needed to represent victims and survivors of human trafficking who were convicted of criminal offenses as a result…
Trauma-Informed Legal Representation for Youth in Sexual-Abuse-to-Prison Pipeline
CEASE Clinic Director Emma Hetherington and Legal Intern Copelenn McMahon (’23) published “Trauma-Informed Legal Representation for Youth in Sexual-Abuse-to-Prison Pipeline” along with School of Social Work Assistant Professor Allison Dunnigan in the American Bar Association’s Committee on Children’s Rights Litigation Newsletter. The article discusses how legal systems and stakeholders often criminalize behavioral trauma responses of…
Decriminalizing Victims of Child Sex Trafficking
CEASE recently released its policy brief, Child Sex Trafficking and Enhancing Georgia Responses, providing an overview of how common misunderstandings about the realities of child sex trafficking prevent the identification of victims, resulting in survivors being treated more like adult criminals than child victims. Despite Georgia’s commitment to the protection of survivors of child sex…