Fighting Human Trafficking

This legislative session, I made it my mission to stand between evil and the innocent, to protect Arkansas’s children and bring real justice to victims of human trafficking.

I worked with an excellent team of lawmakers to sponsor, co-sponsor, and support a slate of tough new laws that crack down on predators, protect vulnerable youth, and give victims a stronger path to healing:

✅Act 663 – Increases penalties for promoting prostitution, especially when linked to businesses.

✅Act 664 – Grants victims of trafficking a 10-year window to sue their traffickers in civil court.

✅Act 665 – Expands victims’ rights, seals certain criminal records, and mandates no-contact orders.

✅Act 666 – Requires mandatory restitution to victims and enhances reparations laws.

✅Act 667 – Allows law enforcement to seize traffickers’ assets and criminalizes harboring endangered runaway children.

✅Act 976 – Enhances penalties for a range of criminal offenses against children.

✅Act 977 – Bans possession of computer-generated child pornography that appears real.

✅Act 987 – Removes the statute of limitations for trafficking crimes, creates safe harbor protections, and prohibits sex-related products that resemble children.

These reforms represent a major leap forward in defending the dignity and safety of children and trafficking survivors across our state.

As Colleen Nick of the Morgan Nick Foundation powerfully said: “Rep. Ryan Rose stands as a guardian of good, protecting others from evil.”

“I WON’T BACK DOWN. NOT NOW. NOT EVER.”

—Rep. Ryan Rose