{"id":15365,"date":"2013-01-30T16:43:15","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T00:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/billboard-message-in-kent-targets-human-trafficking\/"},"modified":"2013-01-30T16:43:15","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T00:43:15","slug":"billboard-message-in-kent-targets-human-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/billboard-message-in-kent-targets-human-trafficking\/","title":{"rendered":"Billboard message in Kent targets human trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Kent and King County officials unveiled a new message Wednesday on a Clear Channel Outdoors billboard in the 18900 block of 84th Avenue South (East Valley Highway) to help make people more aware of the fight against human trafficking in which women are hired to do work against their will, many as prostitutes.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Clear Channel donated advertising space more than a dozen billboards from Tacoma to Bellingham, including six in Kent. This billboard includes messages in Spanish from a woman who says \u201cHe lied about the job, now he won\u2019t let me leave.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>County Councilman Reagan Dunn said the <a title=\"billboards\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=2&amp;ved=0CDwQFjAB&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kingcounty.gov%2Fhumantrafficking&amp;ei=rb0JUc7yLsWL0QHOm4GYBA&amp;usg=AFQjCNExi6t1j39BXY22GHMqF3NSIJWtTA&amp;bvm=bv.41642243,d.dmQ\" target=\"_self\">billboards are a way to reach out to victims, potential victims and the public<\/a>.\u00a0 The ad encourages people to call 1-888-373-7888 to reach the National Human Trafficking Resource Hotline for help.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kent and King County officials unveiled a new message Wednesday on a Clear Channel Outdoors billboard in the 18900 block of 84th Avenue South (East Valley Highway) to help make people more aware of the fight against human trafficking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":15366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-15365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15365"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=15365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}