The Launch
Committed to the legal and professional needs of survivors of human trafficking, attorney Brent Woody launched the West Florida Center for Trafficking Advocacy (FCTA) in 2012 as a way to serve human trafficking victims and survivors. Now, the West Florida Center provides trauma-informed restorative pro bono legal representation to victims and survivors nationwide on issues of Florida law. A team of committed volunteer attorneys works in the areas of criminal, family, and general civil law, representing clients on a variety of issues resulting from the clients' trafficking experiences. The West Florida Center initiated Florida's robust human trafficking expunction statute which became law in 2014, and now represents survivors from around the nation expunging Florida criminal records obtained as a result of the survivor's participation in the trafficking enterprise.
In 2014, the West Florida Center began expanding its work into the Florida corrections system, helping identify a highly vulnerable inmate population and assisting inmates with trafficking expunctions, safe-release arrangements, and post-release connections to safe restorative services.
As lead counsel and executive director of the West Florida Center, Brent Woody looks forward to expanding the work in 2016, to provide the most relief possible to those who did not deserve what happened to them, but do deserve justice and help getting back on their feet.
In 2014, the West Florida Center began expanding its work into the Florida corrections system, helping identify a highly vulnerable inmate population and assisting inmates with trafficking expunctions, safe-release arrangements, and post-release connections to safe restorative services.
As lead counsel and executive director of the West Florida Center, Brent Woody looks forward to expanding the work in 2016, to provide the most relief possible to those who did not deserve what happened to them, but do deserve justice and help getting back on their feet.
