Public Comments for 01/20/2022 General Laws - Housing/Consumer Protection
HB21 - Public auction of personal property to satisfy lien; advertisement requirement, website.
Last Name: Nies Locality: Bamboo Creek

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Last Name: McCracken Organization: Chesterfield Observer Locality: Richmond

As the owner of the Chesterfield Observer in strong opposition to Delegate Fowler's HB 21. This bill would allow advertisement for the public auction of personal property to satisfy liens to be published on a "publicly accessible website " that conducts property sales. Of course, under current law an advertisement is required to be published in a newspaper of general circulation. In my view, taking advertising for public auction of personal property out of newspapers and putting them on a "publicly" accessible website "conducting" property sales is highly problematic. We all know if a public storage facility is going to put personal property up for sale this needs to be advertised in a newspaper of record in that area just like all other public notices. Running this advertisement on a “property sales site” drastically lowers the likelihood of you or your friends and family seeing the ad and alerting you to this. This, and all public notices, need to remain in newspapers, where the community can see them 1)in print in the newspaper, 2)on the newspaper's website and 3) on the statewide public notice website. Thank you for your time and consideration. Best Regards, Carol McCracken

Last Name: McCracken Organization: Chesterfield Observer Locality: Richmond

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HB214 - Redevelopment and housing authorities; naming convention.
Last Name: Nies Locality: Bamboo Creek

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HB258 - Hotels; human trafficking training.
Last Name: Nies Locality: Bamboo Creek

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Last Name: Nicholls Locality: Chesapeake

Please move to report this bill. Thanks.

Last Name: Nicholls Locality: Chesapeake

Please report this bill out of solidarity and respect for those who are and have been trafficked. Thank you.

Last Name: Davis Organization: Virginia coalition against human trafficking Locality: Powhatan

Training is absolutely essential to eradicate trafficking or eliminate long-life trauma for the victims. Front line workers don't need any more stats or a 30 minutes presentation on the definition of Human Trafficking. They need to understand how the victim's mindset works and need to understand what is trauma-informed approach is? But most importantly they need to understand how to break a massive barrier between a victim and a front line worker instead of re-traumatizing them during a vehicle stop or an arrest. The first 30 sec in crucial when you meet a victim of Human Trafficking. If you know how to talk to a victim they will trust you and will co-operate. Victims will get to safety faster and officers can get the bad guys MUCH faster. It is not only good for the victim emotionally to be treated properly but believe it or not it is also financially more beneficial for any department to have properly trained individuals dealing with victims. Proper training can reduce overall victim care time and increase the chance of victims wanting to come forward to give up the real bad guys by 70%. Individuals who have never lived this experience will never be able to give proper suggestions on how to deescalate a situation. The best proven educational model is actually 80% Survivor Led and 20% Subject matter expert, an individual who has worked on cases and can offer sector-related facts and suggestions. For example, an Officer can talk about officer's safety, legislations and also a personal case study where the officer had experience with a victim that was non-co-operative but then the officer used our method and how the victim ended up coming forward and how that case also led them to solve a Murder in another county. Having Survivors train Front Line workers gives front-line workers the exact tools they can put it practice literarily on their next shift and truly potentially safe lives. Overall Survivor led training would reduce the number of hours and resources and Officer would need to use on a case, would give a real chance to victims to come forward, would also help the Officer to have much more positive experiences during these occurrences, and last and definitely not the least, if a Victim gets the proper help at the early stages, the recovery time could shrink from 15 to 20 years to 5 years or less. It means victims would get a real second chance at life instead of falling through the cracks over and over again. Did you know that when a victim falls through the cracks, it costs $780,000/ person to any government for 20 years? So why not bring in the Survivors and let them help you, the Society to heal what has been broken for so long? A perfect example of this is the platform I as a survivor am an educator to L.E and other frontline workers which is the worlds first survivor led training platform www.tconlineinstitute.com and recognized by such organizations as U.N. Etc. Submitted by Survivor Amanda Davis an educator for Timeas Cause on behalf of Timea Nagy founder of Timeas Cause the worlds first survivor led online trauma informed training platform. Timeas is a published author and a national public speaker and survivor of trafficking.

Last Name: Nicholls Locality: Chesapeake

Thank you to Delegate Simonds for proposing this bill. We have sections of areas that are highly trafficked. Please please, on behalf of the women and men and especially the kids, please vote for this bill.

Last Name: Nicholls Locality: Chesapeake

Please pass HB258, as we do have human trafficking in our area, and the ability for hotels to watch out for it and potentially help its victims would help get rid of organized crime. Thank you.

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