Reporter staff<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n The Southeast King County Coalition Against Trafficking (SEKCAT) presents a free screening of “Rape For Profit”, a documentary that sheds light on human trafficking in the Seattle area.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The film begins at 6:30 p.m. May 20, at the Kent-Meridian High School Performing Arts Center, 10020 SE 256th St., Kent.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The documentary was filmed in 2012, in and around the SeaTac area, and features local police, officials and actual events and people in the trafficking trade.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Following the film, Kent Police Det. Lovisa Dvorak will discuss the trafficking situation in the area.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Kent Covenant Church co-sponsors the event.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n SEKCAT is one of eight CAT (coalitions against trafficking) groups established along the Interstate-5 corridor in the last three years. It is an all-volunteer, nonprofit group that is part of the larger statewide organization, WA Engage.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n SEKCAT is composed of community stakeholders, such as the Kent and Auburn school districts, the Kent and Auburn police departments, the faith-based community, Soroptimists of Kent and Auburn, Kent Youth and Family, Kent Rotary, City of Kent, and concerned community members.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The group’s goal is to prevent human sex trafficking of youth through education.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Volunteers who are willing to take the anti-trafficking classes and become a part of the SEKCAT’s Speakers Bureau are needed.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n SEKCAT meets from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on the third Tuesday of each month at the Kent Senior Center, 600 E. Smith St.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The screening is free but seating is limited to 350. Reserve your seat at\u00a0www.brownpapertickets.com\/event\/662273<\/a><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n For more information, contact Linda Myers at sekcat@waengage.com.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Southeast King County Coalition Against Trafficking (SEKCAT) presents a free screening of “Rape For Profit”, a documentary that sheds light on human trafficking in the Seattle area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":21883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-21882","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\/21882"}],"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\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21882"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=21882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}