Florida to start writing rules for safehouses for human trafficking survivors

ORLANDO, Fla. — After the first of the year, the Department of Children and Families will start putting together rules for human trafficking safehouses across Florida.

It’s the result of reporting by 9 Investigates, that exposed the lack of standards or regulations for those safehouses, after several survivors who lived in one Central Florida home told us they felt re-exploited there.

Another local organization is helping DCF put together the new rules, as they prepare to open their third facility to help survivors in Orlando.

Inside an East Orange County home, there are boxes of furniture waiting to be unpacked and cabinets waiting to be filled.