Investigate tips. Victims you identify and assist may help in the prosecution and conviction of their traffickers.

The questions below may help you identify a human trafficking victim:

• What type of work do you do?
• Are you being paid?
• Can you leave your job if you want to?
• Can you come and go as you please?
• Have you or your family been threatened?
• What are your working and living conditions like?
• Where do you sleep and eat?
• Do you have to ask permission to eat/sleep/go to the bathroom?
• Are there locks on the doors/windows so you cannot get out?
• Do you have possession of your identifying documents? If not, who does?

If you are not in a position to question a potential victim of human trafficking, look for the following clues:

• Evidence of being controlled
• Evidence of inability to move or leave job
• Bruises or other signs of physical abuse
• Fear or depression
• Not speaking on own behalf or non-English speaking dominated by English speaking individual(s).
• No passport or other forms of identification or documentation