This article from the Pacific Standard discusses a new bill passed by the state legislature of Colorado in the United States. According to the article, the bill is designed to combat the “foster care to prostitution pipeline,” a term used to describe a phenomenon in which children made vulnerable by their placement in the foster care system become more susceptible to being recruited for transactional sex or sex trafficking. This new bill will require the reporting of missing foster children not only to the police but also the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children within 24 hours.
