Criminal Record Relief for Human Trafficking Survivors: Analysis of Current State Statutes and the Need for a Federal Model Statute

This Note defines criminal record relief and analyzes the effectiveness of three state criminal record relief statutes at protecting trafficking survivors. This analysis is based on State Report Cards: Grading Criminal Record Relief Laws for Survivors of Human Trafficking by Polaris, a leading human trafficking nonprofit. It next discusses the absence of federal criminal record relief and how a statute at the federal level could provide relief for survivors with federal convictions while simultaneously providing a model for states to ensure their statutes incorporate best practices for record relief moving forward. This Note then discusses how Polaris’s report stops short of providing a model statute for states to draw from. Finally, this Note provides a best practice statute based on Polaris’s evaluation criteria and recommends it be added as an amendment to the Trafficking Victims Protection Act.

Individual School Case Studies

This chapter presents information on a study designed to examine how three schools—one rural middle/high school and two urban high schools—have implemented the RTI service delivery model. Although the students at each site go through tiers, each school uses the model a little differently in order to match its specific needs with its teaching personnel and pupil deficits. Despite the differences in operation, each school has used the RTI model to improve its students' academic success. The data presented in this chapter were gathered from online resources, such as state report cards and individual school demographic information, and interviews with educators at the case study schools. Links to the online school-related data are not provided herein for confidentiality purposes.