10 0 obj Due to the sensitivity of the product itself, I will not be using this case study to highlight the product design or development of Spotlight, the tool. SOURCE: Self-reported; last updated 6/9/2021. $120/yr. All Rights Reserved. It is the greatest tool we have in the fight against human trafficking., Special Agent, Wisconsin Human Trafficking Task Force. There are over 150,000 escort ads posted daily, and Spotlight takes this massive amount of data and turns it into an asset for law enforcement. Our web-based tool is now used by over 5,000 officers in all 50 states and Canada. "Fighting human trafficking starts where you live. endobj Copyright 2023 IBTimes LLC. There are many things you can do right now to get started in your community to support local survivor organizations.". Thorn is a registered 501(c)(3) organizationEIN: 27-0943677, 2023 Thorn. Telehealth Startup Cerebral To Cut 15% Of Staff, PlayStation's New Game To Feature Shiba Inu As 'Savior' Of 'Humanity', China Aims To Reach 'World-Leading Levels' Of Tech By 2035: CCP. Just within the last 12 months investigators reported: Officers who login weekly report a time savings of 60% in their human trafficking investigations. My background in law enforcement and anti-human trafficking was well suited for the needs of Spotlight when I first joined the team. Amazon Rekognition, which uses deep learning to accurately identify objects, people, activities, and events in images and videos stored in Amazon S3, is at the heart of one of Spotlights most crucial capabilities. I gathered additional information through phone call interviews with customers who were familiar with Spotlight and the other two products to get a sense of what features and design they liked. endobj Numbers are to date since the launch of our tool in 2014. Moreover, users wanted to learn from a law enforcement investigator currently using our tool - so we made sure to co-teach with a superuser. I get results fast allowing me to to gather important evidence and information in minutes compared to hours., Spotlight is a force multiplier at every stage of the operation. <> "When I asked if Spotlight was available to law enforcement in other countries, Kelbi said no, not yet, "But were constantly evaluating the landscape to understand where it can have impact internationally as well.". Connecticut Institute for Refugees and Immigrants (CIRI) founded in 1918, is a statewide nonprofit human services agency that addresses the need to provide new immigrants and refugees in Connecticut with services to help them become self-sufficient, integrated and contributing members of the community. Officer Wellness Spotlight: Police Chaplains - An Integral Part of Law Enforcement. A leading assumption was that users wanted to learn by doing, so we used the outcomes from the New Orleans sting operation as a hands-on case study. Thorn was founded in 2012 to build technology to defend children from sexual abuse. Our tools are currently used by over 8,000 law enforcement officers in 37 countries, resulting in the identification of 10,000+ child sex trafficking victims and 847+ victims of child sexual abuse material. to get more GuideStar Nonprofit Profile data today! Be a part of the impact for our local and global partners by creating your campaign page today! Register now. Thorn also works to speed the identification of children featured in sexually abusive material. Our web-based tool is now used by over 5,000 officers in all 50 states and Canada. endstream These recent survey results confirm our initial hypothesis that Spotlight has indeed been an asset for law enforcement in earlier victim identification, collaboration and productivity. It went from beta in Summer 2014, to extended beta in Fall 2014, to a national roll-out in Winter 2015. In 2013, we published the first version of The Thorn Sound Practices Guide, which educates companies about proven practices, tools and resources that exist to identify, remove, report and prevent child sexual abuse material and abusive behavior on their platforms. Spotlight takes this massive amount of data and turns it into an asset for law enforcement. Used by officers in all 50 states and Canada, our web-based tool has helped in identifying 17,092 child victims of human trafficking in the past four years. Additionally, many new supervisors inevitably will speak with and encourage employees to ensure they take care of their . endobj Output - describing our activities and reach. With the approval of the Thorn CEO, I led the design of a Spotlight product website and managed our vendors, Media Cause and Digital Reasoning - who were in charge of graphic design and engineering development. Viral child sexual abuse material is removed from the internet to end the cycle of trauma. Leadership Spotlight: A System Focus. Email contact available with a Pro subscription. Thorn runs the countrys most extensive online deterrence program, communicating directly with people searching for CSAM, disrupting their sense of anonymity and encouraging them to seek help. My background in law enforcement and anti-human trafficking was well suited for the needs of Spotlight when I first joined the team. Have you recently published a useful resource? Register. $15/mo. Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? A virtual team based in the U.S., Thorn employs 25 people. Spotlight is a web-based application that helps law enforcement prioritize leads in their sex trafficking investigations. The internet has become a widely used place for sex traffickers to advertise. Sign In. Click on the link in that email With only a 25% average response rate, were confident these numbers represent the low end of our impact. All Rights Reserved, thorn.org, Hear more from investigators using Spotlight on the front lines, surveyed underage sex trafficking victims. The software, called Spotlight, is now used across all 50 states by more than 4,000 law enforcement officers, according to Thorns website. result in increased adoption of Thorns tools, a reduction in time to stop abuse and an increase in risk for perpetrators. Use of THOR is periodically audited for compliance with these Rules. We piloted our workshop at the 2015 Atlanta ICAC Conference and received additional feedback on how to improve Spotlight Lab. The solution uses Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) to send alerts to law enforcement agents. Journey map of users navigating htspotlight.com. <> Kelbi writes, "We are philanthropically funded, which means that donations and grants like yours directly fund our products that we provide to law enforcement for free. On Wednesday, Kutcher testified before a Senate Foreign Relations Committee along with the CEO and President of the organization Human Rights First, Elisa Massimino, to ask the United States Government for help fighting trafficking and sexual exploitation. Leadership Spotlight: Leading with the Pen - The Handwritten Note. 4 0 obj The software, called Spotlight, is now used across all 50 states by more than 4,000 law enforcement officers, according to Thorn's website. The objective of Spotlight is to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of domestic sex trafficking investigations and increase the number of children who are identified and connected with help resources. Spotlight is a web tool used by law enforcement agencies to more efficiently search the internet for victim and trafficker information. We are dedicated to ending child sex trafficking and eliminating child sexual abuse from the internet, and we wont stop until every child can simply be a kid. xKk@aZp &@z(=6M5h6N0]|V^c DY: $ I~^_az{}n{wN2r0 G$?Df'QK(s[,3o@o Ecw]\Q sIIb4`W*4)zka0Xm?adhga$P0A*+F#JExueU\|%|Q(2TW,+ h[ QFSv`eDShjJ} x|c' $wGdX308@Ng/UTf "Abusers had figured out how to use advanced technology to facilitate their exploitation of children," says Sarah Potts, the head of marketing and communications for Thorn, the California-based nonprofit that created Spotlight. The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick. Thorn has worked tirelessly to improve three areas of child safety, finding abused children faster, deterring predators, and creating hostile online environments. The genesis of Spotlight started after we conducted a sex trafficking Survivor Survey in 2012, seeking to learn directly from victims how technology was used throughout their trafficking situation. One way for law enforcement agents to catch traffickers and rescue kids would be to identify and investigate escort ads that seem to feature minors, but there are many obstacles to doing this. Spotlight is the #1 investigative tool I have utilized to find child victims and arrest their traffickers in countless cases. Spotlight evolved from surveys completed by victims of . Throughout this process, I worked collaboratively with Media Cause and Digital Reasoning to set timelines and execute. From there, I created an information architecture for the content on the website, put together a website design inspiration board, sketched wireframes by hand and through an online tool - and then wrote the content itself. Washington D.C. tax attorney Kevin E. Thorn, Managing Partner of Thorn Law Group, explains. How does this organization measure their results? We depend on the anti-trafficking community to keep our resource hub up to date. This combination of streamlining workflows and increasing successful victim identification is what has propelled Spotlight to continue to grow its user base. Spotlight can connect contacts in minutes where it would take me weeks, if not months to do the same thing. Officers can set customized alerts and search Spotlights constantly growing database of ads to aid in their investigations. Spotlight is a web-based application that helps law enforcement prioritize leads in their sex trafficking investigations. Spotlight helps officers identify child sex-trafficking ads much faster than the old paper-and-pencil methods., Brooke Istook, Director of Strategy and Operations, Thorn. <> Learn More From what I gathered, Spotlight was by far the most intuitive and robust, providing a better user experience, despite having a ways to go itself. "We tested multiple facial-recognition services and found Amazon Rekognition was extremely accurate," says Kristin Boorse, the director of product management for Thorn. Help us get you more of the nonprofit information you need, including: An email has been sent to the address you provided. $120 $180 $300 Other Other. "Day to day, we strive to balance hard work with care for ourselves and each other so that we have the resiliency we need to keep fighting," Kelbi writes, "At Thorn, we are invested in a team wellness plan where we carve out time to discuss how were feeling and how were approaching our work. A virtual team based in the U.S., Thorn employs 25 people. With the approval of the Thorn CEO, I led the design of a Spotlight product website and managed our vendors, Media Cause and Digital Reasoning - who were in charge of graphic design and engineering development. There is a small group of people abusing our children, and we are a large community standing in strong opposition. Somewhere in that pile of data are children who are bought and sold online for sex. Both products had been around longer than Spotlight and had a few hundred more users than us at the time. Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress. Its not uncommon for celebrities to act on a social or political issue theyre passionate about. The National Policing Institute, formerly known as the National Police Foundation, is an independent non-profit, non-partisan institution based in Arlington, Virginia that has been dedicated to advancing policing through innovation and science for over half a century, and works to translate those findings to practice through technical assistance, training, and dissemination. endstream One aspect of law enforcement often discussed during an in-briefing or at a recruiting event is the idea that by joining the organization, you are being accepted into that agency's "family.". The organization collaborates with law enforcement agencies, tech companies, and nonprofits. Matt Damon wants clean water for all, Shailene Woodley was arrested protesting the Dakota Access pipeline, and Ashton Kutcher is the co-founder of a tech company fighting human trafficking and sexual exploitation. is the CEO of Thorn and has helped grow the organization from inception in 2012. In Wednesdays hearing Kutcher discussed the wide use of the dark web by traffickers, and the difficulties law enforcement officials face in navigating the expanse of content. COVID-19 Fraud. The software makes tracking down traffickers easier and faster for law enforcement, which can cut down on the amount of time it takes to find victims. Password. x nH@ \ Julie holds a B.A. Technology can be used to enable slavery but it can also be used to disable slavery, and thats what were doing, Kutcher said to wrap up his comments. about GuideStar Pro. The good news is, this can help investigators track down traffickers. Spotlight has been used in 21,044 cases identifying 12,328 adults, 5,791 children, and 6,553 traffickers in the past two years. stream We are only one player in a critical ecosystem working on behalf of our children. Points of view or opinions in this document are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice. Sign in or create a new account. To request technical assistance, training, or other resources through this initiative, agency POCs shouldemail usor call 202-833-1460. To design the curriculum for Spotlight Lab, I conducted preliminary research. Thank you for supporting the fight to end human trafficking! To help investigators overcome these and other hurdles, Thorn collaborated with AWS and Digital Reasoning, a company specializing in cognitive-computing solutions, to build Spotlight. This project was supported by Grant No. This year, Dressember is proud to partner with Thorn, an organization that uses technology to combat child sex trafficking. Email or Username. AWS Lambda functions orchestrate Amazon Simple Queueing Service (Amazon SQS) to queue new ads for processing by the app's analytics engine, Digital Reasoning Synthesys. Spotlight has been used in 21,044 cases identifying 12,328 adults, 5,791 children, and 6,553 traffickers in the past two years. However, the following six districts Spotlight is invaluable as a tool/resource. THOR Usernames and Passwords must be maintained as confidential by the User and may not be shared. More From Thorn About the Spotlight Technology. Furthermore, by making sure users were engaged and properly trained, user surveys have shown that Spotlight has since been able to reduce the time it takes to investigate a human trafficking case by 43%, identified close to 2,000 children, and over 2,000 traffickers. country every day, law enforcement cannot manually keep up with the volume of ads as they work to identify and track potential victims. ", In a YouTube video describing Thorns use of technology to fight child pornography and sex trafficking, Thorn Co-founder Ashton Kutcher said, We have to stay on the front cutting edge of that technology, because the criminals, theyre on the front cutting edge., I asked Kelbi what challenges Spotlight faces in keeping at the front of the technological curve. Candid has made improvements to the race and ethnicity options. Empowering law enforcement to collaborate beyond jurisdictions or national borders is a key to success in identifying victims who are moved frequently, or are broadcast through peer-to-peer platforms (P2P) on the dark web from a hidden location. ", In addition to the task of staying technologically relevant, Thorn faces another significant challenge: fundraising. There are over 150,000 escort ads posted daily, and Spotlight takes this massive amount of data and turns it into an asset for law enforcement. Half of our 26 person staff are engineers and product managers focused on technology innovation and deployment. Facial analysis in Amazon Rekognition helps investigators find photos of the same person that have been edited to defeat less intelligent image-search engines. The app does this on a serverless Amazon Web Services (AWS) architecture that includes Amazon Rekognition, a deep learningbased image and video analysis service, and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C5 instances. Most locations in the United States are updated every six hours. Spotlight is a robust search tool that uses machine learning to help law enforcement identify victims of trafficking online. Need the ability to download nonprofit data and more advanced search options? An infographic detailing the reach that Spotlight has gained, since its national roll-out in February 2015. Our team continues to monitor new and emerging trends that will help make sure our tool remains relevant for investigators to do their jobs efficiently and ultimately help the kids we serve. Click here to resend it.). Copyright IBTimes 2023. Eventually, I reached out to them, and we agreed to partner and co-teach a Spotlight Lab workshop at major conferences across the Nation to drive awareness and adoption. We do all of this so every child can be safe, curious, and happy. The success of Spotlight would not be possible without the countless hours that investigators spend looking for our kids; the technology partners who influenced and encouraged its development and our donors. <> Click here to return to Amazon Web Services homepage, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C5 instances, Identified 18,000 victims, including over 6,000 children. I cant begin to tell you how appreciative myself and the victim's families are that we have people that support a worthy cause such as this. Thorn Helps Law Enforcement Identify Child Sex-Trafficking Victims Faster on AWS Answering the Challenge Using AWS Founded in 2012, Thorn builds technology to defend children from sexual abuse. I joined a superuser with the Louisiana State Police on a human trafficking sting operation in New Orleans, to observe how they used Spotlight in the field. endobj With over 150,000 ads posted online every day, we know that law enforcement doesnt have enough time to navigate the online commercial sex market to find children and identify their traffickers. She previously served as the VP of Marketing/Communications of (RED), where she helped establish the brand as one of the most successful cause marketing initiatives in history, delivering more than $160 million to fight HIV/AIDS across Africa. Trafficking in human beings: protect women and children and focus on sexual exploitation, Desperate for Cash, Afghans Toil in Mines That Are Deadlier Than Ever, Forced to Beg: Tanzanias Trafficked Kids. Used by law enforcement in all 50 states and Canada, Spotlight has assisted in over 25,000 cases in 2019 alone and has helped to identify nearly 5,500 child sex trafficking victims and nearly 6,500 child sex traffickers. Access is available for free to law enforcement agencies and can be requested at: htspotlight.com. She shared, "Maintaining any technology product is always challenging because technology is constantly changing. This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. Our brand NoFiltr reaches youth directly with prevention and support messaging to help them better recognize online grooming. Nokia's New G22 Phone Allows You To Repair Broken Parts Yourself; A Knack For Storytelling: Should AI Take Over What Makes Us Human? At Dressember, we release a line of dresses each year, but those products are sold. My goal was to not only design a workshop that increased adoption but to build a tool that added value for current users through an intuitive user experience and user interface - which would then translate to more victims identified in a shorter amount of time. Sign up and stay up to date with our daily newsletter. 2021 Dressember | Dressember is a 501 (C)(3) | design by anne agency + marrow design, Grant Partners, Dressember2018, human trafficking, modern day slavery, child advocacy, buisnesses ending slavery and trafficking, BEST, Danyella Wilder. Spotlight, on the other hand, is a complex piece of software that doesn't have any sales to help fund its production. According to our most recent survey, it is helping find more human trafficking victims, faster. Spotlight Data How often is the information in Spotlight refreshed? Thorn's Spotlight tool helps law enforcement more quickly identify sex trafficking victims who are advertised online. You can view our, Meet the 2019 Skoll Awardees for Social Entrepreneurship. Help Spotlight PA hold the powerful to account with a gift today. Our tool Spotlight accelerates law enforcements ability to identify victims of child sex trafficking. After the sting operation, we sat down with FVTC and the DOJ to put together the curriculum for Spotlight Lab. You can have your biggest impact in the community where you live thats where you know the most about the environment, the opportunities, the dangers. The internet has made it easier for children to be bought and sold online. 6 0 obj Sign In. Initially, they had about 100 users from three U.S. states who were using Spotlight for their human-trafficking investigations. Over the past year, reports show that we are identifying on average 8 kids per dayand that law enforcement who use Spotlight daily see a 65% time savings in their process. And its working. He also noted that Spotlight is reducing investigation times by 60 percent. Technology is a powerful tool. FOLLOW MORE IBT NEWS ON THE BELOW CHANNELS, IBT Fast Start - Let the best of International News come to you. Empowering law enforcement to collaborate beyond jurisdictions or national borders, is a key to success in identifying victims who are moved frequently, or are broadcast in P2P onthe dark web from a hidden location. Thorn has created a program called Spotlight. "Spotlight was designed based on insights from our first survivor survey. Rather, I will be detailing the UX/UI and program management that went behind the design of the on-boarding process, which I led during my time at Thorn. Spotlight is used by more than 6,000 law enforcement officers in all 50 Thorn is a registered 501(c)(3) organizationEIN: 27-0943677, 2023 Thorn. <>/ExtGState<>/XObject<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB/ImageC/ImageI] >>/MediaBox[ 0 0 612 792] /Contents 4 0 R/Group<>/Tabs/S/StructParents 0>> Initially, they had about 100 users from three U.S. states who were using Spotlight for their human-trafficking investigations. Finally, we were awarded the 2015 Cloudera Social Impact Award, for the work we did on Spotlight. It is the Google Search for combating human sex trafficking. We choose to use it for good. We hate spam too, unless it's on a sandwich with some eggs. 3 0 obj Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Additionally, through my stakeholder analysis, I focused on Fox Valley Technical College (FVTC) - a leading law enforcement education center - and the DOJ (both of whom I know, because I currently consult for them on human trafficking). <> (Don't see an email in your inbox? Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results. "With the flexibility and easy integration of AWS, we can experiment and prototype new products like Spotlight that would otherwise be cost-prohibitive to develop. While learning the ins and outs of Spotlight, and shipping features from our product backlog, I began to focus on ways to improve our on-boarding process for increased acquisition and adoption. Registration is open for Dressember 2018 and fundraising has already started! Sign in or create an account to view Form(s) 990 for 2020, 2019 and 2018. Its a neuralnet, it gets smarter over time, it gets better and it gets more efficient as people use it. We build products and tools, partnerships and communities, that support and accelerate the impact and intentions of many people who are dedicated to defending children from sexual abuse. HTS creates a blog, publishes research, and hosts a global resource database on human trafficking and modern-day slavery. Abused children are identified and removed from harm and their abusers are held accountable. Most Popular Stories. On AWS, we can also respond to feature requests from officers in weeks or daysnot a level of responsiveness public-sector agencies are used to seeing. Finally, we designed marketing collateral to drive further customer acquisition. The insights we gained - was not only beneficial for the overall product development - but for the workshop design itself (I would continue to observe Spotlight usage at future sting operations, including Operation Cross Country, in which hundreds of juveniles were identified and pimps were arrested). We reached out to her for more information about Spotlight. Per Kristin, "The genesis of Spotlight started after we conducted a sex trafficking Survivor Survey in 2012, seeking to learn directly from victims how technology was used throughout their trafficking situation. $25/mo. After the 2015 Atlanta ICAC Conference, we quickly realized that we needed a better on-boarding process that no longer relied solely on Google Sheets to manage requests. $300/yr. Problems of scale like this cry out for automated processes, but another big obstacle is the fact that escort ad data is anything but consistent: traffickers use code words, slang, and reused content to complicate detection by machines. Kutcher elaborate on the software during the hearing, Its a tool that can be used by law enforcement to prioritize their caseload. Our team built and launched Spotlight in 2014 to improve investigator workflow to find child victims faster. To build the world we believe in, we know we must: 1) Accelerate Victim Identification 2) Make Digital Environments Safer and 3) Deter Predatory Behavior. Using this data the company worked with law enforcement to understand how such digital footprints could lead to the discovery of victims and their traffickers. This was meant to identify areas in which we could make the tool more intuitive, to minimize obstacles to adoption. The rise of the internet has done for child sexual abusers the exact same thing it has done for everyone else - made it easier to share images, and build a community. Commit to wearing a dress or tie every day in December. 2 0 obj Helped officers identify over 10,000 child victims of sexual trafficking and children whose abuse was recorded and distributed. Use of THOR in a manner outside the scope of these Rules is strictly prohibited. As Thorn started work on a tool that could help investigators identify children being exploited, more than 150,000 new escort ads were being posted online every day in the United States. I get results fast allowing me to to gather important evidence and information in minutes compared to hours. We can use this tool to gather intelligence and plot trends prior to conducting an operation, during the operation we can allocate resources effectively and tighten our investigative vision to have the greatest immediate impact, and following this operation we can couple Spotlight with information gathered in interviews to develop a more complete picture of the scope of Human Trafficking in our area.. I started by conducting a competitive and stakeholder analysis to help with the overall discovery of where we were with our current process. Empowering law enforcement to collaborate beyond jurisdictions or national borders is a key to success in identifying victims who are moved frequently, or are broadcast through peer-to-peer platforms (P2P) on the dark web from a hidden location. Don't recognize this agency? Forgot your username or password? There are more than 150,000 escort ads posted every day in this country. s#fDr$G#;3s/U@q~}NHO. Our product Safer is the first holistic solution for tech companies to detect, remove, and report child sexual abuse material at scale. | Photos Copyright Kay Chernush, ArtWorks for Freedom. But Thorn stays positive in the midst of engaging directly with such data. In addition to a powerful team of experts, we work with the sharpest minds from tech, non-profit, government, and law enforcement to stop the spread of child sexual abuse material, stand up to child traffickers, and uncover new kinds of abuse. So when I came on, I got caught up to speed by reviewing that material, along with learning the product inside out by receiving, and then conducting, Spotlight demos and online trainings. I was given the goal of on-boarding 250 users in the next six months. Spotlight is a robust search tool that uses machine learning to help law enforcement identify victims of trafficking online. Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? ", Spotlight was made to combat a difficult problem, and the data Spotlight handles is unsettling to say the least. Eventually, I reached out to them, and we agreed to partner and co-teach a Spotlight Lab workshop at major conferences across the Nation to drive awareness and adoption. Before presenting the first award of the night, "The Ranch" star Ashton Kutcher walked the red carpet in Dolce & Gabbana. Thorn builds technology to defend children from sexual abuse. 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