Subsection (a) of Code Section 16-12-100 for which anything of value isĭirectly or indirectly given…which conduct is induced or obtained by coercion or deception or which conduct is induced or obtained from a person under the age of 18 years or….Īny person who commits the offense of trafficking a person for labor or sexual servitude shall be guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than one nor more than 20 years. ‘Sexual servitude’ means (A) Any sexually explicit conduct as defined in paragraph (4) of ‘Labor servitude’ means work or service of economic or financial value which is performed or provided by another person and is induced or obtained by coercion or deception. Evidence of failure to deliver benefits or perform services standing alone shall not be sufficient to authorize a conviction under this Code section. Promising benefits or the performance of services which the accused does not intend to deliver or perform or knows will not be delivered or performed. Those services are not respectively limited and defined, or preventing a person from acquiring information pertinent to the disposition of such debt or Maintaining the status or condition of a person arising from a pledge by that person of his or her personal services as security for a debt, if the value of those services as reasonably assessed is not applied toward the liquidation of the debt or the length and nature of Revealed would tend to subject a person to criminal or immigration proceedings, hatred, contempt, or ridicule ‘Coercion’ means exposing or threatening to expose any fact or information that if No public employer shall enter into a contract for the physical performance of services within this state unless the contractor registers and participates in the federal work authorization program to verify information of all new employees.Īnti-coercion and human trafficking provisions On or after July 1, 2007, every public employer shall register and participate in the federal work authorization program to verify information of all new employees. Governor’s Office fact sheet on the law: go here: For the summary provided by the Governor’s office, go here. I have excerpted large sections of the law.įor a complete copy of the law, go here. This may well become a model for other states. There is a special section devoted to stemming human trafficking. For instance, local law officials must be certified by the state in order to enforce federal immigration law undocumented persons under 18 can presumably continue to receive public benefits and persons 18 and over can continue to receive Good Samaritan services. However, I am impressed by the evenhandedness and reasonableness of many of the provisions. The law surely contains some problematic language. This law includes some very interesting provisions which, in effect, codify the role of states in immigration status verification, employer and employee responsibilities, and the provision of public services to undocumented persons. Georgia Governor Sunny Perdue signed Senate Bill 529, Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act, on April 17.
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