The Human Trafficking Prevention Project, University of Baltimore School of Law
Direct Services Agency
Anti-Trafficking
Adult; Female; Foreign National; Labor Trafficking; Male; Sex Trafficking; Transgender Female-to-Male; Transgender Male-to-Female; Citizen/Legal Permanent Resident
Services are confidential, free of charge, and available without regard for age, race, ethnicity, biological sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or immigration status. Faculty supervisor specializes in working with trafficking survivors, LGBTQI persons, and commercial sex workers. Specialized referral services are available through the larger clinic setting for family and immigration law matters, as well as civil legal matters such as landlord-tenant, debt, and wage and hour claims.
H-2B Visa Holders - Forestry; H-2A Visa Holders; H-2B Visa Holders; J-1 Visa Holders; G-5 Visa Holders; A-3 Visa Holders
Maryland
Main: (410) 837-5706
Regular business hours are M-F, 9-5
jemerson@ubalt.edu
English
State-level anti-trafficking funding
The Human Trafficking Prevention Project (HTPP) focuses on reducing the collateral consequences of criminal legal involvement for survivors of human trafficking and those populations made most vulnerable to exploitation. The HTPP is a partnership between the University of Baltimore School of Law and Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service (MVLS), Maryland’s largest provider of pro bono legal services. HTPP staff represent survivors of human trafficking seeking to vacate, or set aside, certain convictions under Maryland's trafficking-specific criminal record relief law, as well as provides representation to those same populations in expungement and shielding cases. Through UB Law, the
HTPP also provides legal advocacy in open trafficking-related criminal cases, including assistance with open warrants, as well as with pardon and clemency cases. Through MVLS, the HTPP provides clients
with additional free civil legal services to address family law, consumer debt, tax issues, landlord/tenant disputes, and name and gender marker changes, among other civil legal matters.
