Rod Khattabi Grace Farms and Steve Francis GTI, NIPRC

Grace Farms Teams Up With Feds to Train Police Here and Abroad on Fighting Forced Labor

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Grace Farms Foundation and the U.S. government want to reduce, if not eliminate, forced labor around the world, a modern form of slavery that the foundation has made one of its goals. To that end, on Thursday officials from the foundation and federal customs and immigration agency signed an agreement to form a partnership meant to help law enforcement develop new approaches to combat forced labor. — an announcement from Grace Farms Foundation

Officials from New Canaan-based Grace Farms and the Global Trade Investigations Division of Homeland Security Investigations signed a memorandum of understanding agreeing to work together. HSI is a division of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, also known as ICE. The two organizations are partnering to convene law enforcement personnel for capacity building opportunities and training sessions starting this year at Grace Farms.

The goal of the collaboration is to bring experts in forced labor to work with law enforcement and sharing data, knowledge, and research to improve transparency and access to justice for victims of modern slavery.