GUARDIAN GROUP

We prevent and disrupt the sex trafficking of women and children in the United States.

Our vision is that every child in the US lives free from sex trafficking. We are seeing this vision come to life as more victims are offered a path to freedom.

The Guardian Group team utilizes two most efficient and proven strategies to achieve this mission. Through our own expertise and the help of our crowdsourced volunteer force, we identify women and minors who are victims of domestic sex trafficking nationwide. Our no-cost support to local, state, and federal law enforcement results in increased recovery of these victims. Together we are harnessing the power of many to find the vulnerable.

Our PURSUIT® team is made up of People United Responsibly Suppressing Underage Illicit Trafficking. Since inception the PURSUIT team has consisted of internal analysts working tirelessly to match the problem of domestic sex trafficking and this strategy remains highly effective. However, over the last few years, the need for a complimentary program to help scale to match the ever-increasing domestic sex trafficking problem has been in the forefront of our minds.

Through years of testing and refining, Project 1591® launched in July of 2022. The first-ever 24/7 crowdsourcing process and platform that enables skilled volunteers to become force multipliers to our mission of illuminating child victims of sex trafficking in the United States.

Together, the Guardian Group Analysis Team and the Project 1591 volunteer force are identifying victims of sex trafficking across the nation. This time-sensitive information is then passed to law enforcement partners ready to receive this product to take action. The results, more victims offered a path to freedom!

Guardian Group's team draws upon decades of leadership and experience to achieve effects against human trafficking at the national level. We collaborate through our strategic partnerships with worldwide, world-class organizations that understand the social and business benefits of tackling this exponentially increasing social injustice.

- Created and implemented effective information gathering and dissemination practices to the capacity of law enforcement and prosecution teams

- Launched Project 1591® in 2022. The first-ever 24/7 crowdsourcing process and platform that enables volunteers to become force multipliers to our mission of illuminating child victims of sex trafficking in the United States. This volunteer force is already making an impact on stopping this crime.

Moving forward we have two priorities - scaling our internal Analysis Team and further development of the Project 1591® program.

- Scaling Guardian Group’s internal analysis team is necessary to increase victim identification and support to law enforcement because enough analysts allow for regional expertise. Assigning an analysts to focus on a specific region increases their effectiveness in victim identification in that specific region resulting in increased support of LE.

- Further development of the Project 1591 volunteer platform is vital to scaling to meet the ever-increasing problem of domestic sex trafficking. Additional feature development will create a better user experience and more efficient process to provide victim identification to law enforcement. This program increases community engagement and finding victims online.