Florida legal term
Human trafficking in Florida Criminal Law
Current through 2026 Florida legislative session
In Florida criminal law, “Human trafficking” is a term defined by statute rather than by its everyday meaning. Its statutory definition — quoted verbatim below — controls how the term is applied throughout the Florida criminal code.
What does “Human trafficking” mean in Florida criminal law?
“Human trafficking” means transporting, soliciting, recruiting, harboring, providing, enticing, maintaining, purchasing, patronizing, procuring, or obtaining another person for the purpose of exploitation of that person.(e) “Labor” means work of economic or financial value.(f) “Maintain” means, in relation to labor or services, to secure or make possible continued performance thereof, regardless of any initial agreement on the part of the victim to perform such type service.(g) “Obtain” means, in relation to labor, commercial sexual activity, or services, to receive, take possession of, or tak (Fla. Stat. § 787.06)
Statutes defining or using this term
Charges using this term
- Criminal transmission of HIV; procedures; penalties
- Human trafficking public awareness signs
- Sentence of death or life imprisonment for capital human trafficking of vulnerable persons for sexual exploitation; further proceedings to determine sentence
- False imprisonment; false imprisonment of child under age 13, aggravating circumstances
- Kidnapping; kidnapping of child under age 13, aggravating circumstances
- Murder
Related terms in the same statutes
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