South Lake Tahoe Police Department and Live Violence Free are partnering for a community presentation on human trafficking on May 18 at 6pm at Sierra Community Church.

Author John Vanek will be the featured speaker. Vanek is a leadership, collaboration, and anti-human trafficking consultant and speaker working with law enforcement agencies, non-governmental and community-based organizations, academic institutions and private sector companies.

Vanek is a nationally recognized authority on human trafficking and the response to modern-day slavery. He managed the San Jose Police Department Human Trafficking Task Force from 2006-11.

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