I started by conducting a competitive and stakeholder analysis to help with the overall discovery of where we were with our current process. An improved product and UX journey delivers a seamless onboarding and training process for our users and admin staff, Streamlining the onboarding process for law enforcement, Designing a user experience for human trafficking investigators to help them solve cases faster than ever. 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. This year, Dressember is proud to partner with Thorn, an organization that uses technology to combat child sex trafficking. 4 0 obj The Law Enforcement Family. Spotlight's machine-learning models analyze new escort ads in real time and use intelligent image analysis and natural-language processing (NLP) to flag those that match risk profiles developed in cooperation with law enforcement agencies. x["Yn 9 0 obj 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. Raise your voice against slavery this December! The organization collaborates with law enforcement agencies, tech companies, and nonprofits. Our work has three pillars and one guiding vision. Register. All rights reserved. We believe that every child has the right to be safe, to be curious, to be happy. 2023, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. 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. Law enforcement doesnt have enough time to navigate the online commercial sex market to find children and identify their traffickers. Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Viral child sexual abuse material is removed from the internet to end the cycle of trauma. SOURCE: Self-reported; last updated 6/9/2021. Spotlight can connect contacts in minutes where it would take me weeks, if not months to do the same thing. 1 0 obj about GuideStar Pro. <> Education and engagement with the public change risky and abusive behaviors. All Rights Reserved, thorn.org, launched Spotlight nationwide in October 2014, Spotlight assisted in the identification of 1,980 children and over 2,186 traffickers. Our team built and launched Spotlight in 2014 to improve investigator workflow to find child victims faster. Email contact available with a Pro subscription. There are many things you can do right now to get started in your community to support local survivor organizations.". 11 0 obj COVID-19 Fraud. ", 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. Hear more from investigators using Spotlight on the front lines. It is the greatest tool we have in the fight against human trafficking., Special Agent, Wisconsin Human Trafficking Task Force. However, the following six districts All rights reserved. <> But Thorn stays positive in the midst of engaging directly with such data. $120/yr. Password. Sign in or create an account to view Form(s) 990 for 2020, 2019 and 2018. The internet has made it easier for children to be bought and sold online. With only a 25% response rate, were confident these numbers represent the low end of our impact. Try a low commitment monthly plan today. 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. "We tested multiple facial-recognition services and found Amazon Rekognition was extremely accurate," says Kristin Boorse, the director of product management for Thorn. 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. 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. <> 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. You can view our, Meet the 2019 Skoll Awardees for Social Entrepreneurship. Helped officers identify over 10,000 child victims of sexual trafficking and children whose abuse was recorded and distributed. We reached out to her for more information about Spotlight. Reports from our users show that, with the help of Spotlight, law enforcement is identifying 9 kids per day on average and those who use Spotlight daily see over 60% in time savings. Dont see a resource that you know exists? Journey map of users navigating htspotlight.com. Spotlight is a web-based application that helps law enforcement prioritize leads in their sex trafficking investigations. How can people reading this help Thorn fight against child sex trafficking? GuideStar partnered on this section with CHANGE Philanthropy and Equity in the Center. Officers can set customized alerts and search Spotlights constantly growing database of ads to aid in their investigations. 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. Finally, we designed marketing collateral to drive further customer acquisition. Numbers are to date since the launch of our tool in 2014. country every day, law enforcement cannot manually keep up with the volume of ads as they work to identify and track potential victims. Thorn builds technology to defend children from sexual abuse. 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. 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. The internet has become a widely used place for sex traffickers to advertise. Facial analysis in Amazon Rekognition helps investigators find photos of the same person that have been edited to defeat less intelligent image-search engines. 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. 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. 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. Email or Username. It is the Google Search for combating human sex trafficking. Please check your inbox in order to proceed. 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. Thorn also works to speed the identification of children featured in sexually abusive material. Kutcher elaborate on the software during the hearing, Its a tool that can be used by law enforcement to prioritize their caseload. Help Spotlight PA hold the powerful to account with a gift today. Finally, we were awarded the 2015 Cloudera Social Impact Award, for the work we did on Spotlight. 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. %PDF-1.7 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. stream Thorn was founded in 2012 by Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore to combat online child abuse. 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. 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. This project was supported by Grant No. Learn more about Amazon EC2 C5 Instances. stream 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. Thorn developed Spotlight, an app that helps law enforcement close trafficking cases much faster than by using traditional manual methods. Spotlight evolved from surveys completed by victims of . A virtual team based in the U.S., Thorn employs 25 people. stream Spotlight is a robust search tool that uses machine learning to help law enforcement identify victims of trafficking online. Thank you for supporting the fight to end human trafficking! GuideStar worked with BoardSource, the national leader Use of THOR in a manner outside the scope of these Rules is strictly prohibited. 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. We do all of this so every child can be safe, curious, and happy. The organization collaborates with law enforcement agencies, tech companies, and nonprofits. to get more GuideStar Nonprofit Profile data today! stream Powered by 3.0 GHz Intel Xeon Scalable processors, Amazon EC2 C5 instances offer a memory-to-vCPU ratio that is ideal for demanding inference applications. from UCLA and an M.B.A. from Northwestern. The Bureau of Justice Assistance is a component of the Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs, which also includes the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Office for Victims of Crime, and the SMART Office. 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. Spotlight has been used in 21,044 cases identifying 12,328 adults, 5,791 children, and 6,553 traffickers in the past two years. Hear more from investigators using Spotlight on the front lines. 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. Spotlight, on the other hand, is a complex piece of software that doesn't have any sales to help fund its production. Spotlight, a tool developed by Thorn, is a web-based platform that assists law enforcement in identifying sex trafficking victims faster. Other Amount: Donate now Yes, accountability matters. 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. 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. | Photos Copyright Kay Chernush, ArtWorks for Freedom. Most locations in the United States are updated every six hours. 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. 6 0 obj It went from beta in Summer 2014, to extended beta in Fall 2014, to a national roll-out in Winter 2015. All Rights Reserved. In 2012, we learned that 75% of child sex trafficking victims were being bought and sold online. How can law enforcement sift through massive amounts of data to focus their time on the most vulnerable victims? endobj I agree to the terms of use, privacy policy and agree to receive promotional emails, reminders and updates from Thorn Thorn was founded in 2012 to build technology to defend children from sexual abuse. $10/mo. endstream 10 0 obj Thorn has created a program called Spotlight. endobj Abused children are identified and removed from harm and their abusers are held accountable. Kutchers company Thorn developed software to combat this challenge. Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Supported browsers are Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Safari. 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.". Copyright IBTimes 2023. I started by conducting a competitive and stakeholder analysis to help with the overall discovery of where we were with our current process. 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. 2016-2022 National Policing Institute -Privacy Policy-Documents in PDF format require Adobe Acrobat Reader, Spotlight A Tool to Improve Sex Trafficking Investigations, Documents in PDF format require Adobe Acrobat Reader. Share it with us and well add it to the database! 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. 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. endobj Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results. Our products would not be successful without the partnership we receive from the law enforcement users in every state, at every level of government, and in 37 other countries who use our products, give us feedback, and work tirelessly to identify children. $180/yr. Both products had been around longer than Spotlight and had a few hundred more users than us at the time. "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. Streamlining the onboarding process for law enforcement An infographic detailing the reach that Spotlight has gained, since its national roll-out in February 2015. More From Thorn About the Spotlight Technology. Access is available for free to law enforcement agencies and can be requested at: htspotlight.com. Thorn Helps Law Enforcement Identify Child Sex-Trafficking Victims Faster on AWS. This was meant to identify areas in which we could make the tool more intuitive, to minimize obstacles to adoption. Most Popular Stories. 2016-MU-BX-K005 awarded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance. 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. The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick. Analyze a variety of pre-calculated financial metrics, Access beautifully interactive analysis and comparison tools, Compare nonprofit financials to similar organizations, Revenue and expense data for the current fiscal year, CEO, Board Chair, and Board of Directors information, *with the ability to download the data for 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. I get results fast allowing me to to gather important evidence and information in minutes compared to hours. Leadership Spotlight: Leading Through Tragedy. 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. I was given the goal of on-boarding 250 users in the next six months. Additionally, many new supervisors inevitably will speak with and encourage employees to ensure they take care of their . Spotlight was designed for law enforcement and prosecutors who investigate human trafficking networks so that victims can be identified and connected to services. This website is funded through a grant from the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. Our product Safer is the first holistic solution for tech companies to detect, remove, and report child sexual abuse material at scale. Leadership Spotlight: Leading with the Pen - The Handwritten Note. 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. Spotlight's sophisticated machine-learning capabilities save time for overworked, under-resourced investigators by automatically flagging ads likely to represent at-risk children and keeping law enforcement agents from getting lost in a sea of online data. Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? endobj Monthly Yearly One time only. So much so that we launched Spotlight nationwide in October 2014. "It didn't make sense to build our own facial-recognition service when AWS already offers a best-in-breed solution like Amazon Rekognition. To design the curriculum for Spotlight Lab, I conducted preliminary research. Have you recently published a useful resource? 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). He likes Neo-noir films, running and cycling, classic American novels, small venue music shows, and burritos. Expanded partnerships with law enforcement. 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. $300/yr. Officers, directors, trustees, and key employees. and who do the programs serve? According to our most recent survey, it is helping find more human trafficking victims, faster. That's where Thorn comes in. Spotlight does investigative work in minutes that can take hours sometimes to collect. Registration is open for Dressember 2018 and fundraising has already started! We believe that every child has the right to be safe, to be curious, to be happy. All Rights Reserved, thorn.org, Hear more from investigators using Spotlight on the front lines, surveyed underage sex trafficking victims. 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. Spotlight is like a investigative partner in human trafficking investigations. endobj All of our technology partners are making crucial contributions to this fight. 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. According to our most recent survey, it is helping find more human trafficking victims, faster. It went from beta in Summer 2014, to extended beta in Fall 2014, to a national roll-out in Winter 2015. 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. Based on IRS CI's FY 2021 Annual Report, here are five top enforcement priorities that are likely to carry over into 2022: 1. endobj A GuideStar Pro report containing the following information is available for this organization: This information is only available for subscribers and in Premium reports. With just over 20% of users reporting, we are confident these numbers represent the low end of our impact. For this phase of the project, I used the data I already gathered from Spotlight users to create a journey for those seeking to learn more about Spotlight, request a demo, request access, and to log in. Key results from our multi-channel strategy led to 19x the projected customer acquisition goal from all 50 states, by the end of 2015 (easily surpassing the initial goal of 250 users in six months). Spotlight is a robust search tool that uses machine learning to help law enforcement identify victims of trafficking online. We depend on the anti-trafficking community to keep our resource hub up to date. 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. Its a neuralnet, it gets smarter over time, it gets better and it gets more efficient as people use it. ", In addition to the task of staying technologically relevant, Thorn faces another significant challenge: fundraising. 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. <> By the end of my first year at Thorn, I had played a role in developing strategic partnerships with FVTC and the DOJ, designing a Spotlight Lab to effectively train potential and new users, and designing a Spotlight product website and a corresponding on-boarding process. Who works and leads organizations that serve our diverse communities? Sign In. Sign up and stay up to date with our daily newsletter. Founded in 2012, Thorn builds technology to defend children from sexual abuse. The organization's co-leader identifies as: Already have a GuideStar Account? ", Spotlight was made to combat a difficult problem, and the data Spotlight handles is unsettling to say the least. Just within the last 12 months investigators reported: Officers who login weekly report a time savings of 60% in their human trafficking investigations. To request technical assistance, training, or other resources through this initiative, agency POCs shouldemail usor call 202-833-1460. Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? There are more than 150,000 escort ads posted every day in this country. endobj Hopeful that investigators could use technology to identify victims more quickly, we tested an early version of a potential tool among key agencies with promising results. Spotlight, which is offered free of charge to law enforcement and allied organizations, uses Amazon Cognito to provide a secure user directory that can scale to millions of users. Sign in or create a new account. Be a part of the impact for our local and global partners by creating your campaign page today! 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. Officers who login weekly report a time savings of 60% in their human trafficking investigations. 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. Copyright 2023 IBTimes LLC. Moreover, users wanted to learn from a law enforcement investigator currently using our tool - so we made sure to co-teach with a superuser. Our brand NoFiltr reaches youth directly with prevention and support messaging to help them better recognize online grooming. about GuideStar Pro. After I completed this phase of research, I used the information to iterate on the workshop design, and improve the overall usability of Spotlight. Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues. Spotlight marketing collateral, based on what law enforcement needed to know. Somewhere in that pile of data are children who are bought and sold online for sex. "Spotlight was designed based on insights from our first survivor survey. Spotlight is the #1 investigative tool I have utilized to find child victims and arrest their traffickers in countless cases. 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. We recently asked human trafficking investigators and prosecutors how Spotlight has impacted their investigations within the last 12 months here are a few highlights: It is the Google Search for combating human sex trafficking. 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. Register now. Sign In. Learn more endobj COVID-19 fraud schemes have been a top concern for IRS CI and other . Nokia's New G22 Phone Allows You To Repair Broken Parts Yourself; A Knack For Storytelling: Should AI Take Over What Makes Us Human? Initially, they had about 100 users from three U.S. states who were using Spotlight for their human-trafficking investigations. The Amazon Rekognition team has been very responsive in helping us address any challenges we encounter.". <> 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. Thorn was founded in 2012 to build technology to defend children from sexual abuse. Earlier in her career she worked for Motorolas mobile phone division and helped launch HELIO, a mobile virtual network operator. 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