'Day of Action' to highlight scourge of human trafficking

RIVERSIDE - Volunteers will be fanning out across Riverside County on Saturday to raise awareness about human trafficking and how to stop it.

The ''Day of Action'' campaign will include the distribution of fliers in the Riverside metropolitan area, Lake Elsinore, Murrieta, Temecula and parts of the Coachella Valley.

Sheriff's Sgt. John Sawyer said volunteers will be placing anti-human trafficking posters in airports, adult book shops, bus stops, hospital emergency rooms, rest stops, truck stops and liquor stores.

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