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Human trafficking concerns over Super Bowl’s
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 >>>dark underbelly{ BUT SHOULDN'T BE}

underbelly
By Ann KillionJanuary 30, 2016 Updated: January 30, 2016 9:45pm
 

 
 
 
 
 
Betty Ann Boeving, Executive Director of Bay Area Anti-Trafficking Coalition, discusses logistics with Brian Wo, Director of Partnerships at BAATC of their upcoming Freedom Summit at their head quarters in a space donated by the Great Exchange Covenant Church May 6, 2015 in Santa Clara, Calif. The Freedom Summit, an anti-human trafficking event, is being put on by the Bay Area Anti-Trafficking Coalition in Santa Clara at Levi's Stadium on Saturday. Photo: Leah Millis, The Chronicle Photo: Leah Millis, The Chronicle Betty Ann Boeving, Executive Director of Bay Area Anti-Trafficking Coalition, discusses logistics with Brian Wo, Director of Partnerships at BAATC of their upcoming Freedom Summit at their head quarters in a space donated by the Great Exchange Covenant Church May 6, 2015 in Santa Clara, Calif. The Freedom Summit, an anti-human trafficking event, is being put on by the Bay Area Anti-Trafficking Coalition in Santa Clara at Levi's Stadium on Saturday.
This week will be a collision of two dark secrets.

The Bay Area is one of the nation’s largest hubs for human trafficking. And the Super Bowl is an event that is a hotbed for human trafficking.

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HUMAN TRAFFICKING

 Alameda's District Attorney Nancy O'Malley discusses improved housing options for those affected by  human trafficking, at a press conference at SFO's Aviation Museum in San Francisco, California on Wednesday, January 27, 2016. As Super Bowl 50 nears, prosecutors on alert for human A Super Bowl 50 sign sits in front of San Francisco City Hall, where advocates kicked off a human trafficking awareness campaign on Tuesday morning. Super Bowl 50 puts spotlight on human trafficking EDITORIAL: Super Bowl 50 can’t be a game for sex traffickers
That dark underbelly of America’s biggest sporting event is in sharp contrast with the parties and celebrities, the glamour and fun that are the usual trappings of the Super Bowl.


“You can be a sports fan but not turn a blind eye to the some of the worst things going on around a sporting event,” said Betty Ann Boeving, the executive director and founder of the Bay Area Anti-Trafficking Coalition

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