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People speak: Push for stricter human trafficking penalties

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    California ballot measure seeks tougher punishments

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There is a new effort to crack down on human trafficking voters in California will decide on.

What's being called one of the toughest laws in the country.

Douglas Kennedy has more from our newsroom here in New York you check this out what did you find -- SL human traffickers almost always exploit the weak and vulnerable.

Now one former victim is fighting back.

She's using California's ballot box to do it.

-- it was constantly at risk of rape or.

Murder when she was in just eighth grade Lee Albright Byrd started living on the streets in Sacramento California.

She quickly became a victim of what -- forces and officials now call human trafficking at a very young age you were found by him.

And then sold for sex on the Internet throughout the state of California.

That's correct I ran away from -- the age of fourteen.

And there are quite a few things that made me really vulnerable to being sexually exploited -- has now practicing Christian.

And is now pushing a ballot measure here in California.

That would dramatically increase the penalties for human trafficking.

She's managed to convince some pretty deep pocketed Californians.

To backer.

Chris Kelly is a former privacy chief for FaceBook.

You spend over a million and a half dollars of your own money.

Gathering signatures why you so interest in this well it's important to take a stand against sex trafficking.

About 35 would increase mandatory sentences for human trafficking from five years.

Up to fifteen years to life people who would otherwise be engaged in garden variety prostitution would never ever seen the inside of -- jailed -- looking and saying.

Amounts of time in jail your critics say you are going to clog the criminal justice system with people.

Who have no choice now but to fight these very long sentences what do you say well I think that people who -- engaged the exploitation of women and children online should be serving on jail sentences.

Kelly says his experience -- FaceBook has taught him that the Internet can be used to help.

As well as to harm.

That's it from here bill back to give us the other goes in November thank you Douglas Douglas Kennedy are.

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