Records · Verification table
Trafficking: verification of what changed after the 5 November fresh read, 6 November 2026
The working record behind the pages, published as written. Source file source/verify/trafficking-2026-11-06-additions.md. All records.
Scope. Every claim in a line added or changed in content/trafficking.html, content/trafficking-learn.html and content/trafficking-practice.html between ee6f7b8 and HEAD, from git diff ee6f7b8 HEAD -- <the three pages>, that has no row in source/verify/trafficking-2026-11-05.md. HEAD moved twice during the run: 244a844 at the start; 4764ebf changed one line in scope (the overview's languages line, row O3); 8551ff8 touched none of the three pages. One unchanged line on the Learn page (the "Next" button's minutes) was fixed because the Do page's re-ranking had made it wrong (row L11). Claims already in the 5 November table were not re-graded; those re-read today are in section 4. The Do page and every other file are out of scope; what turned up there is in section 5 as proposals. Nothing was committed.
Method. Every source was fetched fresh on 2026-11-06 between 09:25 and 09:40 EST (14:25 to 14:40 UTC; each fetch stamped from date). Each was pulled with curl (Safari user agent) into its own empty folder. HTML was stripped of tags by a one-file script run with python3 -I. PDFs were read with pdftotext in reading order, and with -layout for tables. The Europe PMC and doi.org APIs were read as returned JSON. WebFetch was tried once (Charlotte Observer) and refused. One web search was run, to see whether federal trafficking victim-service grants restarted on 1 July 2026. Its snippets settled nothing and no verdict rests on them. Every author name, title, year and venue was treated as unverified until read on the source's own record.
Verdicts. CONFIRMED = the source's words support the page as written. CORRECTED = the page was changed to match the source. NOT IN SOURCE = the cited source does not say it; the claim was reworded or removed. NEWER DATA, UNREACHABLE, BLOCKED, UNFETCHABLE: none for a source the pages cite (one context source was unreachable; see the fetch log). OWN = the site's own estimate or judgement, listed so nothing is skipped and not counted. Grades (the site's scale, content/about.html): primary = the original document; research = peer-reviewed work; evaluator; charity's, programme's or industry's own figures; news; our arithmetic; internal = this repo's own files.
Fetch log (2026-11-06, EST; "200" = HTTP status after redirects).
| Source | URL | Result |
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| OJP/NCJRS abstract cited as Practice s8 | https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/evaluation-multi-session-group-designed-prevent-commercial-sexual | 200, 09:25 |
| Europe PMC record, Rothman et al. 2020 (PMID 31358352) | https://www.ebi.ac.uk/europepmc/webservices/rest/search?query=AUTH:%22Rothman%20EF%22%20AND%20TITLE:%22survivor-mentor%22&resultType=core&format=json | 200, 1 hit, 09:25 |
| doi.org handle for that paper | https://doi.org/api/handles/10.1016/j.chiabu.2019.104083 ; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2019.104083 | 200 (resolves to linkinghub.elsevier.com, 200), 09:28 |
| Jalopnik, 9 Nov 2021 (Practice s8) | https://jalopnik.com/a-southwest-airlines-flight-attendant-fasley-accused-a-1848019643 | 301 to www.jalopnik.com/…/, 200, 09:25 |
| Complex, 26 Jul 2021 (linked by Jalopnik; context only) | https://www.complex.com/life/black-woman-accused-of-trafficking-white-sister-frontier-airlines/ | 200, 09:31 |
| Charlotte Observer (linked by Jalopnik; context only) | https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article234770802.html | UNREACHABLE: curl HTTP/2 stream error at 09:31, HTTP/1.1 timeout at 09:32; WebFetch refused |
| HHS OTIP, hotline data (Learn s10) | https://acf.gov/otip/research-policy/data/nhth-data | 200 ("PUBLISHED September 9, 2025 / UPDATED September 1, 2026"), 09:25 |
| HHS OPRE, evaluation landing page (Learn s10) | https://acf.gov/opre/report/evaluation-national-human-trafficking-hotline-contactor-help-seeking-and-hotline | 200, 09:25 |
| OPRE brief PDF (linked from that page) | https://acf.gov/sites/default/files/documents/opre/opre-NHTH-HelpSeekingBrief-April2024.pdf | 200, 1.1 MB, 17 pp., 09:27 |
| Hotline statistics (Learn s3) | https://humantraffickinghotline.org/en/statistics | 200, 09:25 |
| Hotline FAQ | https://humantraffickinghotline.org/en/about-us/hotline-faqs | 200, 09:30 |
| Hotline contact page | https://humantraffickinghotline.org/en/contact | 200, 09:30 |
| Polaris, 8 Dec 2025 release | https://polarisproject.org/press-releases/polaris-announces-successful-transfer-of-hotline-operations-to-compass-connections/ | 200, 09:30 |
| Cornell LII, 22 U.S.C. §7102 (Learn s9) | https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/22/7102 | 200, 09:28 |
| White House message, 6 Jan 2026 (Practice s6) | https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2026/01/presidential-message-on-national-slavery-and-human-trafficking-prevention-month/ | 200, 09:28 |
| Fair Food Program 2024 State of the Program report (Practice s7) | https://fairfoodprogram.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/FFP-2024-SOTP-DIGITAL-2.pdf | 200, 21.6 MB, 09:28 |
| Same report, later file now linked from the results page | https://fairfoodprogram.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/FFP-2024-SOTP-DIGITAL-6.pdf | 200, 21.6 MB, 09:39 (same three figures) |
| FFP buyers, results, consumers, label pages (Practice s5 and context) | https://fairfoodprogram.org/buyers/ ; …/results/ ; …/consumers/ ; …/marketing/ | all 200, 09:28 to 09:30 |
| Freedom Network USA, Flying in the Face of Survivors, March 2026 (Do page s3; behind an overview line) | https://freedomnetworkusa.org/app/uploads/2026/03/Flying-in-the-Face-of-Survivors-2025-FNUSA-HT-Policy-Report.pdf | 200, 09:30 |
| Polaris, Labor Trafficking on Specific Temporary Work Visas, 2022 (Do page s4; behind an overview line) | https://polarisproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Labor-Trafficking-on-Specific-Temporary-Work-Visas-by-Polaris.pdf | 200, 10 MB, 09:30 |
| BEST hotel project outcomes, 2019 (not cited on the pages; for proposal 5) | https://www.aahoa.com/public/storage/2024/04/19/cms/itt-project-outcomes-2019-1.pdf | 200, 09:35 |
| FreightWaves, 12 Jan 2026 (not cited on the pages; for proposal 5) | https://www.freightwaves.com/news/cvsa-human-trafficking-awareness-week-kicks-off | 200, 09:35 |
| Live and Let's Fly, 13 May 2023 (Do page s11; for proposal 1c) | https://liveandletsfly.com/human-trafficking-american-airlines | 301 to …/, 200, 09:40 |
| Repo files read | content/trafficking-do.html, content/index.html, content/do.html, content/about.html, tools/app.js, tools/audit.py, source/essays/trafficking.md, source/corrections.json, source/impact/trafficking-2026-11-05.md, source/knowledge/trafficking.md | read |
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1. Overview: content/trafficking.html
| # | Page | Claim (as it stood) | Source URL | Fetch | Exact quote | Verdict | Grade | Fix applied |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| O1 | overview | Description: "the fifteen minutes that get your money to recovery and the number into the right hands" | content/trafficking-do.html; content/index.html | read | Do page h1: "Pay for recovery. Know the number. Twenty-five minutes." Step costs: "5 minutes · any amount", "10 minutes · $0", "10 minutes · $0 or a monthly gift". This page's own Do door: "25 minutes · from $0". Hub: "Do · 25 min, from $0". | CORRECTED (internal mismatch) | internal | "fifteen minutes" → "twenty-five minutes" |
| O2 | overview | Lede: "back the one kind of enforcement that has worked" | FFP 2024 report (DIGITAL-2, above); https://fairfoodprogram.org/buyers/ ; content/trafficking-do.html | 200; 200; read | Report: "its unique track record of measurable and documented success". Buyers page: "a 15-year track record of unparalleled success in enforcing fundamental human rights". Both are the programme's words about itself. The Do page's own Q&A: "What has worked is enforceable: buyers who must stop buying when workers are abused, and government import bans." No source read says worker-driven enforcement is the only kind that has worked, and the site itself names a second. | NOT IN SOURCE (the superlative) | programme's own figures; internal | → "back enforcement that workers run" (the Do door's own words) |
| O3 | overview | Notice (added in 4764ebf): "24 hours, in English, Spanish and 200+ other languages through an interpreter, anonymous if you want." | https://humantraffickinghotline.org/en/about-us/hotline-faqs ; https://humantraffickinghotline.org/en/contact | 200; 200 | FAQ: "Anti-Trafficking Hotline Advocates speak English and Spanish and can communicate with callers in more than 200 additional languages using a 24-hour tele-interpreting service. Email and online tip report services are currently available in English and Spanish only." "You can report a tip anonymously. You do not need to provide your name or any identifying details about your situation unless you are comfortable doing so." Contact: "You can reach the Hotline 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in more than 200 languages." | CONFIRMED (note: the interpreter service is described for calls; the FAQ says email and web reports are English and Spanish only and says nothing about text) | primary | none |
| O4 | overview | "save 1-888-373-7888 and 233733"; contact card: tel +1-888-373-7888, text 233733, note "Call 1-888-373-7888 or text 233733. 24 hours, 200+ languages. If someone is in danger right now, call 911." | https://humantraffickinghotline.org/en/contact ; tools/app.js | 200; read | Contact: "1-888-373-7888 TTY: 711 Text* 233733"; "If you are in immediate danger, contact 911."; "24 hours a day, 7 days a week in more than 200 languages". app.js writes TEL;TYPE=VOICE: and TEL;TYPE=TEXT: into one .vcf. | CONFIRMED | primary; internal | none (numbers untouched) |
| O5 | overview | "Five minutes: set up a monthly gift to recovery. The money for it ran out in 2026." | FNUSA, March 2026 (above; the Do page's s3) | 200 | "On October 1, 2025, over 100 human trafficking victim services grants ended, and the DOJ failed to release the $88,000,000 in appropriated funds to new grantees. This resulted in an ongoing funding lapse impacting at least 5,000 survivors." … "The NOFOs state the grants will begin on July 1, 2026, over nine months after the funds lapsed." | CORRECTED (the lapse began on 1 October 2025, not in 2026; "the money" overstated what was over 100 grants) | charity's own figures | → "Many federal grants for it lapsed in October 2025." Whether the grants restarted on 1 July 2026 was not established today (section 5, item 9). |
| O6 | overview | "a tied visa" (the same line's "a fee, a debt, a held passport" is 5 Nov row D6) | Polaris 2022 (above; the Do page's s4) | 200 | "59 percent of victims were threatened with immigration consequences. This threat, which exists to some extent in all trafficking situations involving foreign nationals, becomes a precision weapon in the hands of traffickers controlling temporary work visas tied to a single employer." | CONFIRMED | charity's own figures | none |
| O7 | overview | Origin line: "an essay from 2025" | source/essays/trafficking.md (Medium RSS, https://medium.com/@isaac.holze/ending-sex-and-human-trafficking-5ebf03c06af3) | read | "# Ending Sex and Human Trafficking" / "Tue, 20 May 2025 15:47:24 GMT" | CONFIRMED | primary (the essay) | none |
| O8 | overview | Origin line: "its page lists what has changed since it was written" | source/corrections.json; site/trafficking/essay/index.html | read | "trafficking": five entries, the first "“Two-thirds of cases involved online recruitment” and “nearly forty percent of those arrested were women” describe one organisation’s 2025 cases, not global data. …". The built essay page contains "Since this was written". | CONFIRMED | internal | none |
| O9 | overview | Doors: Do "25 minutes · from $0"; Practice "A drill · 5 minutes" | content/trafficking-do.html; content/trafficking-practice.html | read | Do h1: "Twenty-five minutes." Practice: "the drill takes five minutes." | CONFIRMED (this settles the 5 Nov mismatch, rows O5 and P8) | internal | none |
OWN, not counted: the h1 "Pay for recovery. Know the number."; "recognise a bad job before someone takes it"; the door blurbs; "Five minutes" and "Ten minutes" as step times.
2. Learn: content/trafficking-learn.html
| # | Page | Claim (as it stood) | Source URL | Fetch | Exact quote | Verdict | Grade | Fix applied | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L1 | learn | "In the year to September 2025, 3,643 of the 13,623 situations the hotline identified were referred to police" | https://acf.gov/otip/research-policy/data/nhth-data | 200 | Table 1, FY 2025 row (cells): 187,863 signals · 32,458 substantive · 9,446 from potential victims · 13,623 under "Total Number of Potential Human Trafficking Situations Identified". Table 2, FY 2025: "Situations Reported to Law Enforcement" 3,643; "Unique Referrals to Services" 12,272. Text: "From FY 2018 to FY 2025, the Hotline referred 24,472 situations of potential human trafficking to law enforcement". | CORRECTED (figures right; the source says "potential" situations and "law enforcement", not "police") | primary | → "3,643 of the 13,623 potential situations the hotline identified were reported to law enforcement." | |
| L2 | learn | "the federal evaluation found the hotline 'has no influence on whether law enforcement takes additional action'" | OPRE brief PDF (above) | 200 | "Focus groups with individuals with lived experience of trafficking revealed that they had inaccurate expectations about what a report to law enforcement via the NHTH would mean. … In actuality, once a report is made, the NHTH has no influence on whether law enforcement takes additional action." The landing page puts it as advice: "Hotline Advocates may seek to consistently explain how the NHTH has no influence on whether law enforcement take additional action on the tips the NHTH provides." | CORRECTED (the quote is verbatim, but it dropped "once a report is made", and it describes the process rather than a measured finding) | primary | → "The federal evaluation says that once a report is made, the hotline “has no influence on whether law enforcement takes additional action”." | |
| L3 | learn | "A fifth of its contacts are victims themselves." (cited to s10 only) | s10 (OTIP; OPRE); s3 https://humantraffickinghotline.org/en/statistics | 200; 200; 200 | OTIP FY2025: 9,446 of 187,863 signals from potential victims, which is 5.0% (29.1% of the 32,458 substantive signals; our arithmetic). OPRE: potential victims were "27.4%, n = 29,568" of specific-incident contacts in 2013–2018. Hotline statistics: "52,664 signals were received by the Hotline in 2025." "10,971 signals received were from victims or survivors of human trafficking" (20.8%; our arithmetic). | CORRECTED (s10 doesn't say it; s3 does, as "victims or survivors") | primary; our arithmetic | → "In 2025, 10,971 of its 52,664 contacts, about a fifth, came from victims or survivors." The paragraph's footnote now cites 3 and 10. | |
| L4 | learn | "Its value is as a service for the person, which is how the Do page uses it; as a tip line it's weak." | source/impact/trafficking-2026-11-05.md §A2 | read | "Grade: moderate as a resource to give to the person in the situation … weak as a third-party tip line". | OWN (the review's judgement) | — | none | |
| L5 | learn | s10: "HHS Office on Trafficking in Persons, hotline data, fiscal year 2025" | https://acf.gov/otip/research-policy/data/nhth-data | 200 | Title "National Human Trafficking Hotline Data"; tables "FY 2013 to FY 2025"; "UPDATED September 1, 2026" (no FY2026 row yet). | CONFIRMED | primary | none | |
| L6 | learn | s10: "HHS OPRE, evaluation of the National Human Trafficking Hotline, 2024" | landing page and PDF (above) | 200; 200 | PDF cover: "December 2023 \ | OPRE Brief 2023-316"; "Prepared by: Hannah Feeney, Samantha Charm, Jennifer Hardison Walters, Kathleen Krieger"; "RTI International"; suggested citation "(2023)". Landing page: "The 2016—2021 evaluation of the National Human Trafficking Hotline (NHTH) was conducted by RTI International through a contract from the Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE)"; "PUBLISHED February 13, 2024". | CORRECTED (the brief is dated December 2023; 2024 is when ACF posted it) | primary (a federal evaluation brief) | "2024" → "December 2023" |
| L7 | learn | s9: "22 U.S.C. §7102(11)(A)" | https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/22/7102 | 200 | "(11) Severe forms of trafficking in persons The term “severe forms of trafficking in persons” means— (A) sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such act has not attained 18 years of age; or (B) …" | CONFIRMED (paragraph number; the 2026 amendment note on the page touches pars. (16) and (17) only) | primary | none | |
| L8 | learn | s9: a “severe form of trafficking in persons” includes a commercial sex act induced by force, fraud or coercion | as L7 | 200 | as L7 | CORRECTED (the quoted term is plural, "severe forms"; the paragraph covers sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced, not the act itself) | primary | → “severe forms of trafficking in persons” include sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud or coercion | |
| L9 | learn | s9 quote: “or in which the person induced to perform such act has not attained 18 years of age” | as L7 | 200 | as L7 (verbatim) | CONFIRMED | primary | none | |
| L10 | learn | s8: Charity Navigator's grade changed from "rating" to "evaluator" | content/about.html; tools/audit.py | read | About: "evaluator is an independent assessor such as GiveWell." The audit's GRADES set has no "rating". | CONFIRMED | internal | none | |
| L11 | learn | "Next" button: "Do the thing: 15 minutes" (unchanged line, made wrong by the Do page's re-ranking) | content/trafficking-do.html | read | Do h1: "Twenty-five minutes." | CORRECTED (internal) | internal | "15 minutes" → "25 minutes" |
Already in the 5 Nov table, not re-graded: fact 3's new parenthetical (L5), fact 8's rewording (L10, L11b), fact 9's operator sentence (L12b; re-read today, section 4), the Trafficking definition's new footnote (L13), the NCMEC wording (L20), s4 (L28), s6 (L12b, L30). The removed essay chip and "What the essay argues" section make no claim.
3. Practice: content/trafficking-practice.html
| # | Page | Claim (as it stood) | Source URL | Fetch | Exact quote | Verdict | Grade | Fix applied |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P1 | practice | "January is National Human Trafficking Prevention Month in the US." (cites s6) | https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2026/01/presidential-message-on-national-slavery-and-human-trafficking-prevention-month/ | 200 | Title: "Presidential Message on National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month"; "January 6, 2026"; "This National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, my Administration renews our commitment to end the evil of human trafficking…" | CORRECTED (the cited source names the month differently. The 5 Nov row P9 found "National Human Trafficking Prevention Month" in the 2025 proclamation and in H.Res.1024; those were not re-read today.) | primary | → "National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month" |
| P2 | practice | s6: White House, "Presidential message on National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month", 6 January 2026 | as P1 | 200 | as P1 | CONFIRMED | primary | none |
| P3 | practice | "ask your grocer or co-op whether it's in the Fair Food Program, and say you'd like it to be" (cites s5) | https://fairfoodprogram.org/buyers/ ; https://fairfoodprogram.org/consumers/ | 200; 200 | Buyers: "Participating buyers include Compass Group, Walmart, Whole Foods, Subway, McDonald’s, and Soupergirl."; "opening the door for smaller institutional buyers to play a key role as Participating Buyers". Consumers (not cited on the page): "Member of a Local Co-Op? Learn about the Fair Food Sponsor program and get the tools to propose membership to your local co-op board!" | CONFIRMED | programme's own figures | none |
| P4 | practice | "Don't hunt for the label" | https://fairfoodprogram.org/marketing/ | 200 | "The Fair Food Label, launched in October of 2014 … Look for the Fair Food Label in Whole Foods, Giant and Stop & Shop." | OWN (advice; fits a label carried by three chains) | programme's own figures | none |
| P5 | practice | Calendar: "One reminder on the first of each month that opens this page. It holds no dates or figures" | tools/app.js | read | 'DTSTART:' + y + pad(m) + '01T100000', 'DURATION:PT15M', 'RRULE:FREQ=MONTHLY'; 'DESCRIPTION:' + icsText('Open ' + url + ' and do what is due this month.'); 'URL:' + url | CONFIRMED | internal | none |
| P6 | practice | With others 1: "ask the kitchen's produce supplier whether it's in the Fair Food Program" | FFP 2024 report; buyers page | 200; 200 | Report: "Based on the Coalition of Immokalee Workers’ legally binding agreements with 14 major food retailers, the FFP harnesses the market power of those brands". The buyers page lists food-service companies (Compass Group) among participating buyers. | CONFIRMED (a food-service supplier can be in it) | programme's own figures | none |
| P7 | practice | "run by workers" | FFP 2024 report | 200 | "…the types of abuses that are still so prevalent outside the FFP are remedied – and ultimately prevented – by worker-led human rights enforcement."; "its combination of worker-led identification of Code violations, third-party investigations and audits, and market-backed enforcement" | CONFIRMED (worker-led; a third-party council audits) | programme's own figures | wording now "Workers lead its enforcement" |
| P8 | practice | "binding on buyers" | FFP 2024 report | 200 | "Participating Buyers commit to purchase preferentially from growers in good standing in the Fair Food Program and to cut off purchases from growers who are suspended for zero tolerance and/ or significant, uncorrected violations"; "In the event that a grower is suspended, Participating Buyers are required to suspend purchases from the Participating Grower" | CONFIRMED | programme's own figures | none |
| P9 | practice | "The only enforcement model with a track record" | FFP 2024 report (s7) | 200 | "its unique track record of measurable and documented success"; "the failed-but-still-dominant CSR paradigm, on the one hand, and the proven-but-still-nascent WSR paradigm, on the other" | NOT IN SOURCE as a fact (it's the programme's claim about itself, and the Do page's Q&A also credits import bans) | programme's own figures | → "Workers lead its enforcement, and buyers are bound by it. Its own report calls its track record unique." |
| P10 | practice | With others 2: "Peer support led by survivors works, slowly." | Europe PMC record for Rothman et al. 2020 (above) | 200 | Title: "A longitudinal evaluation of a survivor-mentor program for child survivors of sex trafficking in the United States." "At baseline 72% could be characterized as CSE-experienced, while at 6 months the percentage decreased to 24% (p < 0.001) and at 12 months to 14% (p < 0.001)." "We used a one-group repeated measures design and a GEE analysis." | CORRECTED (it's mentoring by survivors, not peer support; most of the fall came in the first six months, so not "slowly"; one group and no comparison, so "works" outruns it) | research | → "Mentoring by survivors shows promise." |
| P11 | practice | "weak: one group of 41" | as P10 | 200 | "41 youth who were CSE-experienced at baseline (72%) or determined very high risk, 11-18 years old"; "six months after baseline (71% follow-up) and 12 months after baseline (68% follow-up)" | CONFIRMED | research | none |
| P12 | practice | "exploitation among participants fell from 72% to 14% over a year" | as P10 | 200 | as P10 | CONFIRMED against the right study (the page linked a different one; P20) | research | none |
| P13 | practice | With others 3: "Watch-style formats have produced false reports and no measured benefit" | s8 sources (OJP record; Jalopnik) | 200; 200 | Neither mentions neighbourhood watches or watch-style formats. The 5 Nov impact review (§C5) records "No evaluation found" for watch formats; its harm cases are airline staff and viral rumours, not watches. | NOT IN SOURCE | — | → "No evaluation of watch-style formats turned up in our check." (our check's finding, said as such) |
| P14 | practice | "trained airline staff have reported interracial and adoptive families as traffickers at least four times" | Jalopnik (s8) | 200 | "A Southwest Airlines Flight Attendant Falsely Accused A Family Of Human Trafficking" (Lawrence Hodge, "November 9, 2021"). "The Post points out how flight attendants are trained to look out for trafficking behavior." "MacCarthy believes that she and her daughter were racially profiled because she's White and her daughter is Black." "Mixed-race families face accusations of human trafficking while flying … Frontier Airlines, for instance, was in the news twice recently for accusing a Black woman of human trafficking with her White daughter and another White family of the same thing with their Black son." Context (not cited): Complex, 26 Jul 2021, on the first Frontier case: "a Frontier Airlines employees requested they meet the two at the gate after a passenger reportedly alleged there could be human trafficking going on." | CORRECTED (the source has three cases, all mixed-race. Training is stated for the Southwest flight attendants. One Frontier case began with a passenger.) | news | → "Airline staff, some trained to spot trafficking, have reported mixed-race families as traffickers at least three times." |
| P15 | practice | "Hotel and trucker training counts are self-reported." | s8 sources | 200; 200 | Neither s8 source mentions hotels or truckers. Read today but not cited on the page: BEST outcomes (2019): "Over 11,000 properties have staff trained"; "Hoteliers have been identifying more trafficking victims as a direct result of the training." FreightWaves, 12 Jan 2026: "Today, TAT has trained over 1.8 million transportation professionals. Those TAT-certified individuals have generated thousands of hotline calls resulting in over 1,200 identified potential victims". | NOT IN SOURCE as cited (true per two uncited sources) | industry's own figures; charity's own figures via news | removed (section 5, item 5 restores it with its sources) |
| P16 | practice | s7: "20,000+ workers" | FFP 2024 report (DIGITAL-2, the cited file) | 200 | "As of the publishing of this report, the Fair Food Program protects over 20,000 farmworkers harvesting dozens of crops across many states and 3 countries, including Chile and South Africa." | CONFIRMED | programme's own figures | none |
| P17 | practice | s7: "3,919 complaints" | as P16 | 200 | Under "What has the Fair Food Program accomplished?": "Complaint Resolution … 3,919 Hotline Complaints from Workers on Participating Farms" (a running total since 2011). Elsewhere: "4,302 Total hotline complaints". | CONFIRMED | programme's own figures | none |
| P18 | practice | s7: "$638,948 recovered" | as P16 | 200 | "$638,948 In Recovered Wages"; "$638,948 Recovered monies through the complaint hotline" | CONFIRMED | programme's own figures | none |
| P19 | practice | s7: "Fair Food Program, 2024 report" | as P16; https://fairfoodprogram.org/results/ | 200; 200 | "This report is written and produced by the staff of the Fair Food Standards Council (FFSC). © Fair Food Standards Council, 2025."; "The data in this report are current up to Season 13 (2023-2024)." The results page lists "2024 STATE OF THE PROGRAM REPORT Covering Seasons 10 through 13" and now links a later file of it (DIGITAL-6, uploaded 2025/10; same three figures and the same "unique track record", "worker-led" and "legally binding agreements with 14" sentences). No 2025 report is listed. | CONFIRMED | programme's own figures | none (section 5, item 7) |
| P20 | practice | s8: "US Office of Justice Programs, evaluation of a survivor-led group programme (My Life My Choice; one group, 41 participants)", linked to the OJP abstract | https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/evaluation-multi-session-group-designed-prevent-commercial-sexual ; Europe PMC; doi.org | 200; 200; 200 | The link is a different study: "Evaluation of a Multi-Session Group Designed To Prevent Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Minors: The "My Life My Choice" Curriculum"; "NCJ Number 254022"; "Journal of Interpersonal Violence Dated: 2019"; "Emily F. Rothman; Amy Farrell; Jennifer Paruk; Katherine Bright; Megn Bair-Merritt"; "Using a one-group longitudinal design, changes in participant behavior and CSE knowledge were measured at baseline (n = 354) upon group completion (n = 296), and 3 months after group completion (n = 241)." That is a prevention group for at-risk girls: not survivor-led, not 41 people, no 72% or 14%. OJP's library hosts the abstract; OJP is not the author. The 41-youth study: Rothman EF, Preis SR, Bright K, Paruk J, Bair-Merritt M, Farrell A, Child Abuse & Neglect vol. 100, article 104083, 2020 (first online 27 Jul 2019), doi 10.1016/j.chiabu.2019.104083. | CORRECTED (wrong study linked and described) | research | → "Rothman et al., evaluation of a survivor-mentor programme, Child Abuse & Neglect, 2020 (My Life My Choice; one group, 41 youth)", linked to https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2019.104083 |
| P21 | practice | s8: "misidentifications by trained airline staff via Jalopnik, 2021" | Jalopnik | 200 | "By Lawrence Hodge November 9, 2021" | CONFIRMED (date). "trained" dropped from the description to match P14. | news | → "misidentifications by airline staff via Jalopnik, 9 November 2021 (one Southwest and two Frontier cases)" |
OWN, not counted: the rhythm's "Ten minutes" and "Five minutes"; "Don't start a neighbourhood watch for this"; the checklist item "Asked my grocer about the Fair Food Program once." Already in the 5 Nov table, not re-graded: drill 1 (P2b), drill 4 (P5a, P5b; the page now says "recruited by a partner or a family member", and the source says "trafficked by romantic partners … and by family members"), drill 6 (P7), "late 2025" (P10), the checklist's giving line (P13), s1 (D33b, P14a), s4 (P7, P14b). The thirty-second prompt gained only data-share.
4. Re-read today, already in the 5 Nov table
| 5 Nov row | Source | Result | Quote | Still holds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| L12b, L30 | Hotline FAQ | 200 | "Compass Connections began operation of the Trafficking Hotline in September 2025." | yes |
| L12b, L30 | Polaris, 8 Dec 2025 | 200 | "December 8, 2025 Polaris has officially completed the full transfer of the National Human Trafficking Hotline. … Polaris no longer holds any operational role in the Hotline." | yes |
| O2, O3 | Hotline contact page | 200 | "1-888-373-7888 TTY: 711 Text* 233733"; "If you are in immediate danger, contact 911." | yes |
| L13 | Cornell LII §7102 | 200 | as L7 | yes |
| L9 | Hotline statistics | 200 | "52,664 signals were received by the Hotline in 2025." The page still says "The current report is based on data retrieved on April 22, 2025" above full-year 2025 totals. | yes (the page's date contradiction persists) |
5. Proposals outside this pass's scope (not applied)
content/trafficking-do.html(for the Do pass): a. Line 11, lede: "back the one kind of enforcement that has worked". Same overreach as O2; the page's own Q&A (line 117) credits import bans too. Suggest "back enforcement that workers run". b. Line 19: "2026 is the year the money for them ran out: more than a hundred federal victim-service grants ended on 1 October 2025 with $88 million unreleased." The source puts the start of the lapse at 1 October 2025 (O5). Suggest "The money for them ran out on 1 October 2025: more than a hundred federal victim-service grants ended with $88 million unreleased." c. Line 66 and s11: "Trained airline staff have reported interracial and adoptive families as traffickers at least four times since 2017; none were." s11 cites Jalopnik (three mixed-race cases) and Live and Let's Fly (13 May 2023). That post covers an American Airlines flight attendant who suspected a father travelling with his 13-year-old daughter. Its author writes: "I did not discuss the racial element since De Jesus’ daughter was never pictured." Neither source has a 2017 case; that one is NextShark/ABC15 (impact S12), not cited and not read today. Suggest "Airline staff have reported at least four families as traffickers, three of them mixed-race; none were," or match the Practice page's "at least three times" (P14).content/index.htmlline 17 (hub): "its funding ran out in 2026" has the same date problem as O5. Suggest "its federal funding lapsed in October 2025".content/do.htmlline 12: the trafficking card still says "Learn the signs. Save the number. Fifteen minutes." with "The signs · 10 min", "Give to recovery · 5 min", "The teen talk · tonight". The Do page, the overview and the hub now say "Pay for recovery. Know the number." and 25 minutes.- Overview line 23: a footnote on "Many federal grants for it lapsed in October 2025" pointing to
/trafficking/do/#s3. Not added because this pass allowed no new links. - Practice s8: restore "Hotel and trucker training counts are self-reported." with its own sources, both read today. One is BEST, Inhospitable to Human Trafficking: Project Outcomes (2019; AAHOA copy, URL in the fetch log), graded industry's own figures. The other is FreightWaves, 12 January 2026, on Truckers Against Trafficking, graded charity's own figures via news.
- Practice drill intro (unchanged line): "the hotline, which exists for uncertain tips". The 5 Nov table marked it OWN (P1), and the impact review (§A2) notes the hotline describes itself as there for victims first. Suggest "the hotline, which takes reports of potential situations". The Get Help page asks people to call "about potential trafficking situations only" (5 Nov row P2b).
- Practice s7: the programme's results page now links
FFP-2024-SOTP-DIGITAL-6.pdf, with the same figures. The cited DIGITAL-2 file still answers 200; switch if it goes. source/knowledge/trafficking.mdline 19: "trained airline staff misidentified interracial and adoptive families at least four times (2017–2023)". Correct as in 1c.source/stale.tsv, rows to add:- OTIP hotline data: FY2025 is the latest row (page updated 1 Sep 2026). FY2026 should follow the fiscal year; re-read in January 2027. Affects the Learn contest (L1, L3).
- FNUSA: the replacement grants were due on 1 July 2026. Whether they started is not established; one search found only the FY2026 notice (O-OVC-2026-172696, unread). Affects O5, Do step 1 and the hub.
- The January observance's name: re-read the presidential message each January (P1).
- The Fair Food Program's 2025 State of the Program report: not posted as of 6 Nov 2026 (P19).
CHANGELOG.md: one reader-facing line for 6 November when this is committed.- The three pages still say "checked: 5 Nov 2026". This pass re-read only the additions, so the date was left alone; bump it if the committer counts this pass.
6. Time
- OTIP hotline data: fiscal year 2025, posted 9 Sep 2025, page updated 1 Sep 2026. Hotline statistics: calendar 2025.
- FNUSA's funding figures are as of March 2026. The overview's new wording is dated past tense, so it stays true whatever happened on 1 July 2026; the reason it gives for giving now may have weakened.
- White House message: 6 Jan 2026. The month's official name has changed between administrations and may change again in January 2027.
- Fair Food Program: the 2024 report (data through the 2023–24 season, © 2025) is still the latest.
- Rothman et al. 2020, the OPRE brief (December 2023), the statute text and Jalopnik (2021) are fixed documents.
7. Summary by verdict
Counted over rows O1–O9, L1–L11 and P1–P21; OWN rows excluded.
| Verdict | Count | Rows |
|---|---|---|
| CONFIRMED | 23 | O3, O4, O6, O7, O8, O9; L5, L7, L9, L10; P2, P3, P5, P6, P7, P8, P11, P12, P16, P17, P18, P19, P21 |
| CORRECTED | 12 | O1, O5; L1, L2, L3, L6, L8, L11; P1, P10, P14, P20 |
| NOT IN SOURCE | 4 | O2; P9, P13, P15 |
| NEWER DATA, UNREACHABLE, BLOCKED, UNFETCHABLE | 0 | (for cited sources; the Charlotte Observer, linked only by Jalopnik, was unreachable) |
| OWN (not counted) | 2 | L4, P4 |
39 verdicts in all. The two errors the brief warned about were both real. The Practice page's "With others" cited a different 2019 study for the 41-youth survivor-mentor figures (P20), and counted four airline cases from a source with three (P14). The Learn page's hotline paragraph credited the "fifth" to a source that gives 5% or 29% (L3), and dropped the condition on its quote (L2).
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