in nonprofit board leadership and governance, to create this section. As Thorn started work on a tool that could help investigators identify children being exploited, more than 150,000 new escort ads were being posted online every day in the United States. endobj Thorn runs the countrys most extensive online deterrence program, communicating directly with people searching for CSAM, disrupting their sense of anonymity and encouraging them to seek help. 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 can connect contacts in minutes where it would take me weeks, if not months to do the same thing. An improved product and UX journey delivers a seamless onboarding and training process for our users and admin staff, Streamlining the onboarding process for law enforcement, Designing a user experience for human trafficking investigators to help them solve cases faster than ever. You can view our, Meet the 2019 Skoll Awardees for Social Entrepreneurship. 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. We believe that technology is a tool, one we can use for incredible good. 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. Vietnam. Using this data the company worked with law enforcement to understand how such digital footprints could lead to the discovery of victims and their traffickers. 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. With only a 25% average response rate, were confident these numbers represent the low end of our impact. Our product Safer is the first holistic solution for tech companies to detect, remove, and report child sexual abuse material at scale. 4 0 obj The Tennessee Fusion Center may share information contained within THOR with other law . Share it with us and well add it to the database! What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, According to our most recent survey, it is helping find more human trafficking victims, faster. Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress. That's where Thorn comes in. We'll keep it out of your inbox, promise. 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. Click here to resend it.). All Rights Reserved. Need the ability to download nonprofit data and more advanced search options? Our team built and launched Spotlight in 2014 to improve investigator workflow to find child victims faster. Abused children are identified and removed from harm and their abusers are held accountable. 2023, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. My background in law enforcement and anti-human trafficking was well suited for the needs of Spotlight when I first joined the team. 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. I also created high-fidelity prototypes of key touchpoints on our site, whose content I validated through additional user feedback. A 2012 Thorn survey of child sex-trafficking survivors found that 75 percent had been sold online, most of them through escort websites. Kelbi writes, "We are philanthropically funded, which means that donations and grants like yours directly fund our products that we provide to law enforcement for free. Hopeful that investigators could use technology to identify victims more quickly, we tested an early version of a potential tool among key agencies with promising results. A verification email has been sent to you. There is a small group of people abusing our children, and we are a large community standing in strong opposition. Learn more 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. 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. endstream Here are samples of the Spotlight product website: home page, request access page, and request demo page. Thorn builds technology to defend children from sexual abuse. Learn more about Spotlight. A GuideStar Pro report containing the following information is available for this organization: This information is only available for subscribers and in Premium reports. A virtual team based in the U.S., Thorn employs 25 people. Our tools are currently used by over 8,000 law enforcement officers in 37 countries, resulting in the identification of 10,000+ child sex trafficking victims and 847+ victims of child sexual abuse material. Initially, they had about 100 users from three U.S. states who were using Spotlight for their human-trafficking investigations. Hear more from investigators using Spotlight on the front lines. Our products would not be successful without the partnership we receive from the law enforcement users in every state, at every level of government, and in 37 other countries who use our products, give us feedback, and work tirelessly to identify children. Thorn Helps Law Enforcement Identify Child Sex-Trafficking Victims Faster on AWS Answering the Challenge Using AWS Thanks to Spotlight I have returned victims to their families and put bad guys where they belong. 2 0 obj She previously served as the VP of Marketing/Communications of (RED), where she helped establish the brand as one of the most successful cause marketing initiatives in history, delivering more than $160 million to fight HIV/AIDS across Africa. Spotlight was designed for law enforcement and prosecutors who investigate human trafficking networks so that victims can be identified and connected to services. This website is funded through a grant from the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. <> All rights reserved. From what I gathered, Spotlight was by far the most intuitive and robust, providing a better user experience, despite having a ways to go itself. All rights reserved. $120/yr. Use of THOR in a manner outside the scope of these Rules is strictly prohibited. We have resource guides for researchers across the globe on all forms of trafficking for various stakeholders. about GuideStar Pro. How does this organization measure their results? 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. 11 0 obj Copyright Human Trafficking Search 2023. Earlier in her career she worked for Motorolas mobile phone division and helped launch HELIO, a mobile virtual network operator. There are over 150,000 escort ads posted daily, and Spotlight takes this massive amount of data and turns it into an asset for law enforcement. The Law Enforcement Family. 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. Copyright 2023 IBTimes LLC. 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. 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. x["Yn 1 0 obj ", Combating online child sex trafficking is a team effort, according to Istook. " Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results. "Permitted Use" means any use of the Services by an Authorized User for the benefit of Customer solely for supporting his or her law enforcement, social services, academic or other similar professional role, including to detect criminal actions, identify missing/exploited victims, or measure statistical trends surrounding the adult services . is the CEO of Thorn and has helped grow the organization from inception in 2012. Washington D.C. tax attorney Kevin E. Thorn, Managing Partner of Thorn Law Group, explains. 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. In 2013, we published the first version of The Thorn Sound Practices Guide, which educates companies about proven practices, tools and resources that exist to identify, remove, report and prevent child sexual abuse material and abusive behavior on their platforms. Technology is a powerful tool. The bad news is that law enforcement just doesnt have the time, energy, or manpower to efficiently pursue the information available online. Copyright IBTimes 2023. A leading assumption was that users wanted to learn by doing, so we used the outcomes from the New Orleans sting operation as a hands-on case study. 7 0 obj This project was supported by Grant No. Spotlight, a tool developed by Thorn, is a web-based platform that assists law enforcement in identifying sex trafficking victims faster. Officer Wellness Spotlight: Police Chaplains - An Integral Part of Law Enforcement. 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. FOLLOW MORE IBT NEWS ON THE BELOW CHANNELS, IBT Fast Start - Let the best of International News come to you. Leadership Spotlight Compassion in Law Enforcement Compassion is characterized by a willingness to purposely assist others on an emotional level and to selflessly put the needs of others before. Expanded partnerships with law enforcement. Spotlight is used by more than 6,000 law enforcement officers in all 50 Monthly Yearly One time only. Somewhere in that pile of data are children who are bought and sold online for sex. endobj SOURCE: Self-reported; last updated 6/9/2021. The National Policing Institute, formerly known as the National Police Foundation, is an independent non-profit, non-partisan institution based in Arlington, Virginia that has been dedicated to advancing policing through innovation and science for over half a century, and works to translate those findings to practice through technical assistance, training, and dissemination. Moreover, users wanted to learn from a law enforcement investigator currently using our tool - so we made sure to co-teach with a superuser. Numbers are to date since the launch of our tool in 2014. 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. Throughout this process, I worked collaboratively with Media Cause and Digital Reasoning to set timelines and execute. Julie was raised in Lindsay, California, a small farming community in Californias Central Valley. Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Spotlight is a robust search tool that uses machine learning to help law enforcement identify victims of trafficking online. Thorn's Spotlight tool helps law enforcement more quickly identify sex trafficking victims who are advertised online. Education and engagement with the public change risky and abusive behaviors. <> GuideStar partnered on this section with CHANGE Philanthropy and Equity in the Center. Based on IRS CI's FY 2021 Annual Report, here are five top enforcement priorities that are likely to carry over into 2022: 1. Our work has three pillars and one guiding vision. Viral child sexual abuse material is removed from the internet to end the cycle of trauma. Our programs and products find child abuse victims faster, make online environments safer, and deter criminal behavior. Be a part of the impact for our local and global partners by creating your campaign page today! 5 0 obj The rise of the internet has done for child sexual abusers the exact same thing it has done for everyone else - made it easier to share images, and build a community. Identifying the best product and UX design to onboard users, so that Spotlight could become the leading machine learning tool for human trafficking investigators. Spotlight is a web tool used by law enforcement agencies to more efficiently search the internet for victim and trafficker information. The internet has made it easier for children to be bought and sold online. endobj endobj Build relationships with key people who manage and lead nonprofit organizations with GuideStar Pro. <>/ExtGState<>/XObject<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB/ImageC/ImageI] >>/MediaBox[ 0 0 612 792] /Contents 4 0 R/Group<>/Tabs/S/StructParents 0>> The Amazon Rekognition team has been very responsive in helping us address any challenges we encounter.". Spotlight's machine-learning models analyze new escort ads in real time and use intelligent image analysis and natural-language processing (NLP) to flag those that match risk profiles developed in cooperation with law enforcement agencies. Sign in or create an account to view Form(s) 990 for 2020, 2019 and 2018. The software, called Spotlight, is now used across all 50 states by more than 4,000 law enforcement officers, according to Thorn's website. Sign in or create a new account. To date, Spotlight has helped officers reduce investigative time by up to 65% and has helped identify 18,119 trafficking victims (including 5,791 children) and 6,553 traffickers. One aspect of law enforcement often discussed during an in-briefing or at a recruiting event is the idea that by joining the organization, you are being accepted into that agency's "family.". Streamlining the onboarding process for law enforcement An infographic detailing the reach that Spotlight has gained, since its national roll-out in February 2015. <> 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. THOR Usernames and Passwords must be maintained as confidential by the User and may not be shared. Sign up and stay up to date with our daily newsletter. I agree to the terms of use, privacy policy and agree to receive promotional emails, reminders and updates from Thorn $120 $180 $300 Other Other. We can use this tool to gather intelligence and plot trends prior to conducting an operation, during the operation we can allocate resources effectively and tighten our investigative vision to have the greatest immediate impact, and following this operation we can couple Spotlight with information gathered in interviews to develop a more complete picture of the scope of Human Trafficking in our area.. We do all of this so every child can be safe, curious, and happy. $25/mo. Kutchers company Thorn developed software to combat this challenge. from UCLA and an M.B.A. from Northwestern. It's a hard question but an important one. Its a neuralnet, it gets smarter over time, it gets better and it gets more efficient as people use it. Potts adds, "We built Spotlight because we wanted to use advanced technology to help law enforcement turn the tables and find these children faster.". $300/yr. Similarly, The Tote Project, sells their bags, which helps them pay expenses. stream 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. 2016-MU-BX-K005 awarded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance. HTS creates a blog, publishes research, and hosts a global resource database on human trafficking and modern-day slavery. 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. With just over 20% of users reporting, we are confident these numbers represent the low end of our impact. Our tools take massive amounts of data and turns it into an asset for law enforcement. It is the greatest tool we have in the fight against human trafficking., Special Agent, Wisconsin Human Trafficking Task Force. Spotlight does investigative work in minutes that can take hours sometimes to collect. Over the past year, reports show that we are identifying on average 8 kids per dayand that law enforcement who use Spotlight daily see a 65% time savings in their process. Leadership Spotlight: Leading At-Risk Employees - Law Enforcement and the Addiction Crisis. Finally, we were awarded the 2015 Cloudera Social Impact Award, for the work we did on Spotlight. 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 I also conducted guerrilla usability testing to learn about the major pain points of the product itself. According to our most recent survey, it is helping find more human trafficking victims, faster. ", In a YouTube video describing Thorns use of technology to fight child pornography and sex trafficking, Thorn Co-founder Ashton Kutcher said, We have to stay on the front cutting edge of that technology, because the criminals, theyre on the front cutting edge., I asked Kelbi what challenges Spotlight faces in keeping at the front of the technological curve. Kelbi Ervin, Development Associate at Thorn, works with a team to develop partnerships and identify funding opportunities to sustain Thorn's work. 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. Please check your inbox in order to proceed. It went from beta in Summer 2014, to extended beta in Fall 2014, to a national roll-out in Winter 2015. <> Most locations in the United States are updated every six hours. Through my competitive analysis, I identified two major competing products, Traffic Jam and Rescue Forensics. "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. Our web-based tool is now used by over 5,000 officers in all 50 states and Canada. Helped officers identify over 10,000 child victims of sexual trafficking and children whose abuse was recorded and distributed. The organization's co-leader identifies as: Already have a GuideStar Account? This combination of streamlining workflows and increasing successful victim identification is what has propelled Spotlight to its large user base. I was given the goal of on-boarding 250 users in the next six months. In 2012, we learned that 75% of child sex trafficking victims were being bought and sold online. Our team continues to monitor new and emerging trends that will help make sure our tool remains relevant for investigators to do their jobs efficiently and ultimately help the kids we serve. How can law enforcement sift through massive amounts of data to focus their time on the most vulnerable victims? User research through interviews, personas, and journey mapping of proactive and reactive searches had already been done prior to my start date. endobj The good news is, this can help investigators track down traffickers. Click on the link in that email Kutcher elaborate on the software during the hearing, Its a tool that can be used by law enforcement to prioritize their caseload. There are more than 150,000 escort ads posted every day in this country. Email or Username. country every day, law enforcement cannot manually keep up with the volume of ads as they work to identify and track potential victims. It went from beta in Summer 2014, to extended beta in Fall 2014, to a national roll-out in Winter 2015. Kelbi Ervin, Development Associate at Thorn, works with a team to develop partnerships and identify funding opportunities to sustain Thorn's work. We couldnt recommend it more taking time away from what is hard helps us all sustain our efforts to achieve our goals. We depend on the anti-trafficking community to keep our resource hub up to date. Thorn was founded in 2012 to build technology to defend children from sexual abuse. Spotlight evolved from surveys completed by victims of . I started by conducting a competitive and stakeholder analysis to help with the overall discovery of where we were with our current process. %PDF-1.7 stream However, the following six districts 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. Officers can set customized alerts and search Spotlights constantly growing database of ads to aid in their investigations. Amazon Rekognition, which uses deep learning to accurately identify objects, people, activities, and events in images and videos stored in Amazon S3, is at the heart of one of Spotlights most crucial capabilities. Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Candid has made improvements to the race and ethnicity options. Research programs to better understand the role of technology in child sex trafficking. 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. 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. "It didn't make sense to build our own facial-recognition service when AWS already offers a best-in-breed solution like Amazon Rekognition. ", Spotlight was made to combat a difficult problem, and the data Spotlight handles is unsettling to say the least. 9 0 obj 6 0 obj We believe that every child has the right to be safe, to be curious, to be happy. $10/mo. Spotlight's machine-learning models are trained and run on Amazon EC2 C5 instances. On AWS, we can also respond to feature requests from officers in weeks or daysnot a level of responsiveness public-sector agencies are used to seeing. Thorn also works to speed the identification of children featured in sexually abusive material. This process was relatively ad hoc, however, with no identified workflow to drive rapid acquisition and adoption. Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Leadership Spotlight: Leading with the Pen - The Handwritten Note. 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 insights we gained - was not only beneficial for the overall product development - but for the workshop design itself (I would continue to observe Spotlight usage at future sting operations, including Operation Cross Country, in which hundreds of juveniles were identified and pimps were arrested). After I completed this phase of research, I used the information to iterate on the workshop design, and improve the overall usability of Spotlight. <> Dont see a resource that you know exists? Finally, we designed marketing collateral to drive further customer acquisition. Reports from our users show that, with the help of Spotlight, law enforcement is identifying 9 kids per day on average and those who use Spotlight daily see over 60% in time savings. This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. Thorn is a team of issue experts, business leaders, and engineers who build technology to defend children from sexual abuse. For more information about the impact of Spotlight, check out the infographic below. At Dressember, we release a line of dresses each year, but those products are sold. We reached out to her for more information about Spotlight. % We hate spam too, unless it's on a sandwich with some eggs. Thorn has created a program called Spotlight. 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). Law enforcement doesnt have enough time to navigate the online commercial sex market to find children and identify their traffickers. 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. 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