Online Safety Empowering Our Community Against Digital Exploitation

Our 100% volunteer run task force builds collaboration between organizations and individuals to reduce human suffering caused by human trafficking, through advocacy, awareness, rehabilitation, and services for survivors.

Human Trafficking Task Force of Southern Colorado

This is a free awareness event that will  offer the community and families vital information about on-line safety.

Boot Barn Hall at Bourbon Brothers

We've asked law enforcement along with experts in on-line safety to bring parents and our community vital information to protect families from traffickers who exploit through social media and gaming apps on phones and home computers. These experts will touch on topics such as cyber-bullying, sexting, sextortion, and pornography. The Task Force's Seventeenth Annual Symposium is a free event. Invite neighbors, friends, and family to spend a morning making families safe from on-line exploitation.<h3>Parental Discretion Advised: Parents should accompany youth under age 16.</h3>Our Speaker LIne-Up:Emcee Abbie Burke, Fox 21 Morning News AnchorPornography: The Online Gateway to Trafficking, Exploitation &amp; Sexual ViolenceDan O’Bryant is an advocate in the battle against sex trafficking and has served or is currently serving on the boards of Shared Hope International, an international leader in the fight to bring an end to sex trafficking, particularly of children; the National Center on Sexual Exploitation which mobilizes legal, corporate and legislative action to build a world free from sexual abuse and exploitation; and Covenant Eyes, which helps individuals who strive to live porn-free to do so, facilitating transformative accountability relationships through porn-denying software.Our Law Enforcement Panel:Det. Emilie Green has been with the Colorado Springs Police Department since April 2014 and started as a detective in the Crimes against Children Unit in 2017, and then moved to the Internet Crimes Against Children in 2019 and has been actively fighting the war on child exploitation ever since. Detective Green is also the K9 Handler for K9 Luna Pixel, an Electronic Detection Dog, who started her career in protecting and saving children in 2020. K9 Luna was the first EDD dog in the state of Colorado and is a huge asset to the Colorado ICAC Task Force.Sergeant Pat Gallagher started with the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office in 2011 and found his passion in the Special Victim’s Unit and with Internet Crimes Against Children from 2016-2023. He was promoted to Sergeant in 2023 and assigned to Internal Affairs in April 2024.Douglas Kasten, formerly a Detective focused on investigating crimes against children. He continues to work in law enforcement as a criminal investigator with the 18th Judicial District.Empowering Safety for Families in our Digital WorldVice President of Global Communications at The Exodus Road Preston Goff is an expert storyteller in the anti-trafficking space. Goff has led in the development of a top-rated podcast, extensive media-rich educational content on The Exodus Road's blog and social media, brand standards for global teams, and most recently the launch of Influenced — a cutting-edge digital safety curriculum for youth and their caregivers. We Thank Our Sponsors:Platinum: Ent Credit Union and Leadgrip ConsultingGold : Zonta of the Pikes Peak Region, LexisNexis Cares, and KXRM, Fox21