{"id":285175,"date":"2026-05-26T20:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T20:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/285175\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T20:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T20:38:10","slug":"usf-partners-with-federal-agency-to-combat-human-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/285175\/","title":{"rendered":"USF partners with federal agency to combat human trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 26, 2026 &#8211; The Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Tampa and Miami field offices signed a memorandum of understanding May 22 with the University of South Florida&#8217;s Trafficking in Persons Risk to Resilience Lab to &#8220;adopt a victim response framework successfully used by USF researchers and local and state partners in recent years,&#8221; according to a prepared statement. A key aspect of the collaboration is the Bridging Resources and Information Gaps in Human Trafficking Project, which helps survivors by connecting them with &#8220;organizations and resources in their community.&#8221; To learn more, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stpetersburg.usf.edu\/news\/2026\/federal-university-partnership-advances-coordinated-human-trafficking-response-to-support-victims.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">visit this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\/zaps\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More Zaps<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frontpage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May 26, 2026 &#8211; The Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Tampa and Miami field offices signed a memorandum of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-285175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}