Spotlight was designed for law enforcement and prosecutors who investigate human trafficking networks so that victims can be identified and connected to services. Thorn developed Spotlight, an app that helps law enforcement close trafficking cases much faster than by using traditional manual methods. 11 0 obj From there the software developed further to better analyze and track data that can lead to building strong cases against traffickers and finding the victims. The organization collaborates with law enforcement agencies, tech companies, and nonprofits. This tool will allow us to conduct faster, more precise investigations that will remove criminals from the street and, most importantly, recover victims. We work with the sharpest minds from tech, non-profit, government and law enforcement to stop the spread of child sexual abuse material, stand up to child traffickers and uncover new kinds of abuse . I also created high-fidelity prototypes of key touchpoints on our site, whose content I validated through additional user feedback. in nonprofit board leadership and governance, to create this section. Try a low commitment monthly plan today. The software makes tracking down traffickers easier and faster for law enforcement, which can cut down on the amount of time it takes to find victims. This combination of streamlining workflows and increasing successful victim identification is what has propelled Spotlight to continue to grow its user base. We'll keep it out of your inbox, promise. Powered by 3.0 GHz Intel Xeon Scalable processors, Amazon EC2 C5 instances offer a memory-to-vCPU ratio that is ideal for demanding inference applications. Research programs to better understand the role of technology in child sex trafficking. Help Spotlight PA hold the powerful to account with a gift today. x nH@ \ The internet has made it easier for children to be bought and sold online. Candid has made improvements to the race and ethnicity options. You can have your biggest impact in the community where you live thats where you know the most about the environment, the opportunities, the dangers. Thorn's Spotlight tool helps law enforcement more quickly identify sex trafficking victims who are advertised online. Spotlight Data How often is the information in Spotlight refreshed? 5 0 obj <> GuideStar worked with BoardSource, the national leader ", Spotlight was made to combat a difficult problem, and the data Spotlight handles is unsettling to say the least. Don't recognize this agency? It's a hard question but an important one. GuideStar partnered on this section with CHANGE Philanthropy and Equity in the Center. ", Combating online child sex trafficking is a team effort, according to Istook. " Click here to resend it.). Technology is a powerful tool. Spotlights analytics pipeline begins with a third-party solution that ingests more than 100,000 new online escort ads each day, storing text and image data as objects in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets. By the end of my first year at Thorn, I had played a role in developing strategic partnerships with FVTC and the DOJ, designing a Spotlight Lab to effectively train potential and new users, and designing a Spotlight product website and a corresponding on-boarding process. More From Thorn About the Spotlight Technology. I joined a superuser with the Louisiana State Police on a human trafficking sting operation in New Orleans, to observe how they used Spotlight in the field. Armed with this data, we worked with our technology partners and law enforcement to understand how these existing digital footprints could assist law enforcement in faster victim identification. "We tested multiple facial-recognition services and found Amazon Rekognition was extremely accurate," says Kristin Boorse, the director of product management for Thorn. The software, called Spotlight, is now used across all 50 states by more than 4,000 law enforcement officers, according to Thorns website. <> s#fDr$G#;3s/U@q~}NHO. Thorn Helps Law Enforcement Identify Child Sex-Trafficking Victims Faster on AWS Answering the Challenge Using AWS Forgot your username or password? stream Per Kristin, "The genesis of Spotlight started after we conducted a sex trafficking Survivor Survey in 2012, seeking to learn directly from victims how technology was used throughout their trafficking situation. Finally, we were awarded the 2015 Cloudera Social Impact Award, for the work we did on Spotlight. One way for law enforcement agents to catch traffickers and rescue kids would be to identify and investigate escort ads that seem to feature minors, but there are many obstacles to doing this. Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? We are only one player in a critical ecosystem working on behalf of our children. Thorn is a registered 501(c)(3) organizationEIN: 27-0943677, 2023 Thorn. So when I came on, I got caught up to speed by reviewing that material, along with learning the product inside out by receiving, and then conducting, Spotlight demos and online trainings. stream Leadership Spotlight: Leading with the Pen - The Handwritten Note. Email contact available with a Pro subscription. endobj Spotlight evolved from surveys completed by victims of trafficking that showed 63 percent of underage victims were bought or sold online at some point. Thorn's Spotlight tool combines publicly available classified ad and online forum data with smart algorithms to help law enforcement identify an average of eight child sex trafficking victims every day. All rights reserved. That's where Thorn comes in. And its working. He also noted that Spotlight is reducing investigation times by 60 percent. These recent survey results confirm our initial hypothesis that Spotlight has indeed been an asset for law enforcement in earlier victim identification, collaboration and productivity. Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress. Similarly, The Tote Project, sells their bags, which helps them pay expenses. We depend on the anti-trafficking community to keep our resource hub up to date. For more information about the impact of Spotlight, check out the infographic below. I cant begin to tell you how appreciative myself and the victim's families are that we have people that support a worthy cause such as this. The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick. "Day to day, we strive to balance hard work with care for ourselves and each other so that we have the resiliency we need to keep fighting," Kelbi writes, "At Thorn, we are invested in a team wellness plan where we carve out time to discuss how were feeling and how were approaching our work. The Transportation Industrys Human Trafficking Prevention Toolkit, The Educators Human Trafficking Awareness & Prevention Toolkit, Hospitality Industry and Human Trafficking Toolkit, Visibly Invisible Sex Workers and Sex Trafficking in the EU, Prison Labor: What Happened in the 5 States That Had The Exception Clause On the Ballot, Illuminating a Nexus: The Interplay Between Disaster Events and Exploitation, Preparing for the Known Unknown: Human Trafficking and Disaster Response, Forced to Scam: Cyber Slavery in South Asia, Avoiding Cascading Effects: Why Suspension of The Davis-Bacon Act May Allow Forced/Exploited Labor. endobj Please continue to fund this very important resource; it saves lives. Spotlight's sophisticated machine-learning capabilities save time for overworked, under-resourced investigators by automatically flagging ads likely to represent at-risk children and keeping law enforcement agents from getting lost in a sea of online data. Officers can set customized alerts and search Spotlights constantly growing database of ads to aid in their investigations. With the approval of the Thorn CEO, I led the design of a Spotlight product website and managed our vendors, Media Cause and Digital Reasoning - who were in charge of graphic design and engineering development. Analyze a variety of pre-calculated financial metrics, Access beautifully interactive analysis and comparison tools, Compare nonprofit financials to similar organizations, Revenue and expense data for the current fiscal year, CEO, Board Chair, and Board of Directors information, *with the ability to download the data for 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. Officers who login weekly report a time savings of 60% in their human trafficking investigations. Expanded partnerships with law enforcement. Monthly Yearly One time only. Kelbi Ervin, Development Associate at Thorn, works with a team to develop partnerships and identify funding opportunities to sustain Thorn's work. endstream Learn more $25/mo. Julie was raised in Lindsay, California, a small farming community in Californias Central Valley. Spotlight can connect contacts in minutes where it would take me weeks, if not months to do the same thing. 4 0 obj Register. According to our most recent survey, it is helping find more human trafficking victims, faster. Editor's Pick Leise Hook / For Spotlight PA Activation of the tech industry helps eliminate abuse content from their platforms. $120 $180 $300 Other Other. Eventually, I reached out to them, and we agreed to partner and co-teach a Spotlight Lab workshop at major conferences across the Nation to drive awareness and adoption. 6 0 obj Stay up to date with our daily newsletter, testified before a Senate Foreign Relations Committee, evolved from surveys completed by victims of trafficking, Ashton Kutcher Blew A Kiss To John McCain. Journey map of users navigating htspotlight.com. Help us get you more of the nonprofit information you need, including: An email has been sent to the address you provided. $120/yr. Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Nokia's New G22 Phone Allows You To Repair Broken Parts Yourself; A Knack For Storytelling: Should AI Take Over What Makes Us Human? Streamlining the onboarding process for law enforcement An infographic detailing the reach that Spotlight has gained, since its national roll-out in February 2015. endobj Nothing makes my job more rewarding when a victim says "thank you" and tells me about her rebuilt life. Here are samples of the Spotlight product website: home page, request access page, and request demo page. Use of THOR is periodically audited for compliance with these Rules. Spotlight is the #1 investigative tool I have utilized to find child victims and arrest their traffickers in countless cases. However, the following six districts | Photos Copyright Kay Chernush, ArtWorks for Freedom. My background in law enforcement and anti-human trafficking was well suited for the needs of Spotlight when I first joined the team. Our product Safer is the first holistic solution for tech companies to detect, remove, and report child sexual abuse material at scale. Register now. But Thorn stays positive in the midst of engaging directly with such data. Spotlight is a web tool used by law enforcement agencies to more efficiently search the internet for victim and trafficker information. Identifying the best product and UX design to onboard users, so that Spotlight could become the leading machine learning tool for human trafficking investigators. Officer Wellness Spotlight: Police Chaplains - An Integral Part of Law Enforcement. x["Yn x Om7 ' Additionally, through my stakeholder analysis, I focused on Fox Valley Technical College (FVTC) - a leading law enforcement education center - and the DOJ (both of whom I know, because I currently consult for them on human trafficking). Share it with us and well add it to the database! Our tool Spotlight accelerates law enforcements ability to identify victims of child sex trafficking. Raise your voice against slavery this December! After the 2015 Atlanta ICAC Conference, we quickly realized that we needed a better on-boarding process that no longer relied solely on Google Sheets to manage requests. I gathered additional information through phone call interviews with customers who were familiar with Spotlight and the other two products to get a sense of what features and design they liked. The Amazon Rekognition team has been very responsive in helping us address any challenges we encounter.". We have resource guides for researchers across the globe on all forms of trafficking for various stakeholders. It is the Google Search for combating human sex trafficking. my.evidence.com. Sign In. Empowering law enforcement to collaborate beyond jurisdictions or national borders, is a key to success in identifying victims who are moved frequently, or are broadcast in P2P onthe dark web from a hidden location. <> Thank you for supporting the fight to end human trafficking! Spotlight evolved from surveys completed by victims of . There are more than 150,000 escort ads posted every day in this country. Hear more from investigators using Spotlight on the front lines. Before presenting the first award of the night, "The Ranch" star Ashton Kutcher walked the red carpet in Dolce & Gabbana. We recently asked human trafficking investigators and prosecutors how Spotlight has impacted their investigations within the last 12 months here are a few highlights: It is the Google Search for combating human sex trafficking. about GuideStar Pro. While learning the ins and outs of Spotlight, and shipping features from our product backlog, I began to focus on ways to improve our on-boarding process for increased acquisition and adoption. Spotlight takes this massive amount of data and turns it into an asset for law enforcement. $10/mo. Thorn has created a program called Spotlight. For this phase of the project, I used the data I already gathered from Spotlight users to create a journey for those seeking to learn more about Spotlight, request a demo, request access, and to log in. The organization's co-leader identifies as: Already have a GuideStar Account? Education and engagement with the public change risky and abusive behaviors. We build products and tools, partnerships and communities, that support and accelerate the impact and intentions of many people who are dedicated to defending children from sexual abuse. He likes Neo-noir films, running and cycling, classic American novels, small venue music shows, and burritos. I started by conducting a competitive and stakeholder analysis to help with the overall discovery of where we were with our current process. Copyright Human Trafficking Search 2023. I agree to the terms of use, privacy policy and agree to receive promotional emails, reminders and updates from Thorn endobj To find children faster, they have created two online tools, Spotlight and Solis, for law enforcement agencies across the world, for free. Furthermore, by making sure users were engaged and properly trained, user surveys have shown that Spotlight has since been able to reduce the time it takes to investigate a human trafficking case by 43%, identified close to 2,000 children, and over 2,000 traffickers. Our team built and launched Spotlight in 2014 to improve investigator workflow to find child victims faster. Click on the link in that email Key results from our multi-channel strategy led to 19x the projected customer acquisition goal from all 50 states, by the end of 2015 (easily surpassing the initial goal of 250 users in six months). Used by officers in all 50 states and Canada, our web-based tool has helped in identifying 17,092 child victims of human trafficking in the past four years. We hate spam too, unless it's on a sandwich with some eggs. Use of THOR in a manner outside the scope of these Rules is strictly prohibited. Finally, we designed marketing collateral to drive further customer acquisition. From there, I created an information architecture for the content on the website, put together a website design inspiration board, sketched wireframes by hand and through an online tool - and then wrote the content itself. All Rights Reserved, thorn.org, launched Spotlight nationwide in October 2014, Spotlight assisted in the identification of 1,980 children and over 2,186 traffickers. Matt Damon wants clean water for all, Shailene Woodley was arrested protesting the Dakota Access pipeline, and Ashton Kutcher is the co-founder of a tech company fighting human trafficking and sexual exploitation. Spotlight is used by more than 6,000 law enforcement officers in all 50 Sign in or create an account to view Form(s) 990 for 2020, 2019 and 2018. The app does this on a serverless Amazon Web Services (AWS) architecture that includes Amazon Rekognition, a deep learningbased image and video analysis service, and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C5 instances. Based on IRS CI's FY 2021 Annual Report, here are five top enforcement priorities that are likely to carry over into 2022: 1. This project was supported by Grant No. endobj Equipped more than 8,500 law enforcement officers across 2,000 law enforcement agencies in 35 countries with its tools, Tools speed investigation time by up to 65 percent, 2022 Skoll Foundation. "Fighting human trafficking starts where you live. A GuideStar Pro report containing the following information is available for this organization: This information is only available for subscribers and in Premium reports. SOURCE: Self-reported; last updated 6/9/2021. A 2012 Thorn survey of child sex-trafficking survivors found that 75 percent had been sold online, most of them through escort websites. endobj Spotlight has been used in 21,044 cases identifying 12,328 adults, 5,791 children, and 6,553 traffickers in the past two years. Spotlight is a web-based application that helps law enforcement prioritize leads in their sex trafficking investigations. The Law Enforcement Family. In Wednesdays hearing Kutcher discussed the wide use of the dark web by traffickers, and the difficulties law enforcement officials face in navigating the expanse of content. 1 0 obj To design the curriculum for Spotlight Lab, I conducted preliminary research. The Bureau of Justice Assistance is a component of the Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs, which also includes the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Office for Victims of Crime, and the SMART Office. Click here to return to Amazon Web Services homepage, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C5 instances, Identified 18,000 victims, including over 6,000 children. stream We found that sixty-three percent of underage sex trafficking victims reported they had been bought or sold online. In the last five years, we have reached more than 2.6 million people globally through our child pornography deterrence program. Earlier in her career she worked for Motorolas mobile phone division and helped launch HELIO, a mobile virtual network operator. Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? % 9 0 obj AWS Lambda functions orchestrate Amazon Simple Queueing Service (Amazon SQS) to queue new ads for processing by the app's analytics engine, Digital Reasoning Synthesys. Hi-fidelity prototypes of key touch points on the Spotlight website. to get more GuideStar Nonprofit Profile data today! Who works and leads organizations that serve our diverse communities? All Rights Reserved. is the CEO of Thorn and has helped grow the organization from inception in 2012. 2 0 obj The bad news is that law enforcement just doesnt have the time, energy, or manpower to efficiently pursue the information available online. The software, called Spotlight, is now used across all 50 states by more than 4,000 law enforcement officers, according to Thorn's website. 3 0 obj Most locations in the United States are updated every six hours. Get free shipping on all Thorne products, connect with health professionals and clients, and read Take 5 Daily to get the latest news in the health and technology industry. We choose to use it for good. xKk@aZp &@z(=6M5h6N0]|V^c DY: $ I~^_az{}n{wN2r0 G$?Df'QK(s[,3o@o Ecw]\Q sIIb4`W*4)zka0Xm?adhga$P0A*+F#JExueU\|%|Q(2TW,+ h[ QFSv`eDShjJ} x|c' $wGdX308@Ng/UTf This year, Dressember is proud to partner with Thorn, an organization that uses technology to combat child sex trafficking. These recent survey results confirm our initial hypothesis that Spotlight has indeed been an asset for law enforcement in earlier victim identification, collaboration and productivity. We piloted our workshop at the 2015 Atlanta ICAC Conference and received additional feedback on how to improve Spotlight Lab. Want to see how you can enhance your nonprofit research and unlock more insights? Neither the U.S. Department of Justice nor any of its components operate, control, are responsible for, or necessarily endorse, this Web site (including, without limitation, its content, technical infrastructure, and policies, and any services or tools provided). Kutcher elaborate on the software during the hearing, Its a tool that can be used by law enforcement to prioritize their caseload. Thorn Helps Law Enforcement Identify Child Sex-Trafficking Victims Faster on AWS. "Spotlight was designed based on insights from our first survivor survey. Powered by 3.0 GHz Intel Xeon Scalable processors, Amazon EC2 C5 instances offer a memory-to-vCPU ratio that is ideal for demanding inference applications. This is me at a conference booth, preparing to hold several usability testing sessions with human trafficking investigators. 2016-2022 National Policing Institute -Privacy Policy-Documents in PDF format require Adobe Acrobat Reader, Spotlight A Tool to Improve Sex Trafficking Investigations, Documents in PDF format require Adobe Acrobat Reader. Founded in 2012, Thorn builds technology to defend children from sexual abuse. Spotlight's machine-learning models are trained and run on Amazon EC2 C5 instances. Build relationships with key people who manage and lead nonprofit organizations with GuideStar Pro. <>/Metadata 508 0 R/ViewerPreferences 509 0 R>> 8 0 obj The Tennessee Fusion Center may share information contained within THOR with other law . Julie holds a B.A. She shared, "Maintaining any technology product is always challenging because technology is constantly changing. and who do the programs serve? 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