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Human Trafficking

Assistance for Victims of Trafficking

Pursuant to the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) and regulations promulgated by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), victims of trafficking can now seek to have adverse information that resulted from trafficking blocked from consumer reports about them. American Tenant Screen, Inc. dba VerifyProtect.com (“ATS”) is committed to assisting those who are victims of trafficking in compliance with applicable law. Please follow the instructions below to have adverse information that resulted from trafficking blocked from your consumer report.

Who Is Covered By The Trafficking Law?

The information on this webpage applies to “victims of trafficking.” “Victims of trafficking” are those individuals who were subject to:

  1. “Severe forms of trafficking in persons.” This is defined as sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion in which the person induced to perform such act is less than 18 years old or the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor/services through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purposes of involuntary servitude, slavery, peonage, or debt bondage; or
  2. “Sex trafficking.” This is defined as the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, obtaining patronizing or soliciting of a person for the purpose of a commercial sex act. 

How to Request a Block of Information in Your Consumer Report

You must submit the following information/documentation to ATS in order to request a block of information in a consumer report prepared about you: (1) appropriate proof of identity; (2) victim determination documentation; (3) adverse items linked to trafficking; and (4) your preferred contact method. Each of these is discussed in more detail below.

  1. Appropriate Proof of Identity. 

Victims of trafficking must submit appropriate proof of their identity to ATS. This typically includes providing ATS with a copy of your:

    1. Driver’s license;
    2. State identification card;
    3. Passport;
    4. Social Security Card;
    5. Utility or service bills; or 
    6. Other government-issued identification card. 

If you are a victim of trafficking and do not have any of the forms of identification listed above, please contact ATS at 800-888-1287 so that your identity can be confirmed by another method. 

      1. Victim Determination Documentation.

Victims of trafficking are required to provide victim determination documentation to ATS. To do so, you may provide any of the following:

Option #1: Documentation that establishes that one of the following entities has formally determined that you are a victim of trafficking:  

      1. A Federal, State, or Tribal governmental entity.
      2. A non-governmental organization or member of a human trafficking task force, including victim service providers affiliated with these entities and authorized by a Federal, State, or Tribal government entity.

Option #2: Documentation that you are a victim of trafficking, which has been made by a court of competent jurisdiction or a determination consisting of documents filed in a court of competent jurisdiction where a central issue in the case is whether you are a victim of trafficking and the court has, at a minimum, affirmed your claim either by accepting certain pieces of evidence which are assumed to be true or finding that there is no genuine dispute as to any material fact supporting a judgment in favor of you as a matter of law.

Option #3: A signed self-attestation attesting that you are a victim of trafficking, if the self-attestation or accompanying document is signed by: 

      1. A Federal, State, or Tribal governmental entity; 
      2. A non-governmental organization or member of a human trafficking task force; or 
      3. A court of competent jurisdiction. 
    1. Adverse Items of Information Linked To Trafficking

Victims of trafficking are required to identify any item(s) of adverse information (e.g., arrest records, criminal convictions, civil judgments, etc.) that they believe should not be included in a consumer report about them because the item(s) resulted from a severe form of trafficking in persons or sex trafficking of which they are a victim. Please make sure to provide this information to us.

      1. Preferred Contact Method.

Victims of trafficking must provide ATS with their preferred contact method (e.g., mail or email). 

How To Submit Documentation To ATS

You can submit the above-referenced information and documentation via mail at the addresses listed below:

By mail:

      1. ATS, 1400 N. Providence Rd, Suite 6070, Media, PA 19063; or
      2. VerifyProtect.com 1400 N. Providence Rd, Mailbox 21W, Media PA 19063

Information Blocking Process

Once ATS receives your complete submission, we will create a preliminary block on the adverse information within four business days of your request. This means that ATS will not report the adverse items of information you identified while the preliminary block is in place. If ATS needs additional information to process your request, we will contact you within five business days of your submission.

ATS will make a final determination within 25 business days of receipt of your submission. We will notify you of our final determination within five business days of us making the final determination.

Questions

If you have questions regarding the process or the status of your request, please contact ATS at 800-888-1287 or [InfoRequest@VerifyProtect.com].