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and the name, address, and occupation of the person making the report; Any action taken by the reporting source. Reporter must have reasonable cause to know or suspect abuse or neglect. Reporter must notify the county department, the local law-enforcement agency, or the child abuse reporting hotline system. Reporter must report immediately and then follow up with a written report. The county department must send a report to the district attorney’s office and to the local lawenforcement agency. County department, law enforcement, and hotline must then submit a report to the state department within 60 days. (Continued ) 120 H. G. ATKINSON ET AL. Table 3. (Continued). State Statutes Trafficking Type What to Report To Whom and How to Report Florida FLA. STAT. §§ 39.01 (2014), 39.201 (1994) Sex and/or Labor Definition: Reporters must report “sexual abuse of a child,” which includes “sexual exploitation,” meaning the forcing of a child to participate in the trade of human trafficking, defined as “transporting, soliciting, recruiting, harboring, providing, enticing, maintaining, or obtaining another person for the purpose of exploitation of that person,” including for both sex and labor. FLA. STAT. §§ 39.01(69)(g) (2014), 787.06(d) (2014) Professionals must provide their name when reporting to the hotline. Reporter must have reasonable cause to suspect that child is abused, abandoned, or neglected by a parent, legal custodian, caregiver, or other person responsible for the child’s welfare, or that a child is in need of supervision and care and has no parent, legal custodian, or responsible adult relative. Reports shall be made immediately to the Department of Children and Families’ central abuse hotline (by toll-free telephone number or via fax, Web-based chat, or Web-based report). Personnel at the department’s central abuse hotline shall determine if the report warrants protective investigation. Illinois 325 ILL. COMP. STAT. 5/3 (2012), 5/4 Sex and/or Labor Definition: Reporters must report abuses of trafficking, defined as “A person commits trafficking in persons when he or she knowingly: (1) recruits, entices, harbors, transports, provides, or obtains by any means, or attempts to recruit, entice, harbor, transport, provide, or obtain by any means, another person, intending or knowing that the person will be subjected to involuntary servitude; or (2) benefits, financially or by receiving anything of value, from participation in a venture that has engaged in an act of involuntary servitude or involuntary sexual servitude of a minor.” 720 ILL. COMP. STAT. 5/10–9(d) Names and addresses of child and child’s parents or persons responsible for child’s welfare; Name and address of the school that the child attends or last attended, and the name of the school district; Child’s age, sex, and race; Nature and extent of the child’s abuse or neglect, including any evidence of prior injuries, abuse, or neglect of the child or his (or her) siblings; Names of the persons apparently responsible for the abuse or neglect; Family composition, including names, ages, sexes, and races of other children in the home; Name of the person making the report, occupation and contact information; Actions taken by the reporting source, including taking photographs and x-rays, placing the child in temporary protective custody, or notifying the medical examiner or coroner. As soon as there is reasonable cause to believe there has been abuse or neglect, the reporter must immediately report to the Department of Children and Family Services. (Continued ) JOURNAL OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING 121 Table 3. (Continued). State Statutes Trafficking Type What to Report To Whom and How to Report Maryland MD. CODE ANN. FAM. LAW §§ 5–701 (2012), 5–704 Sex Definition: Reporters must report “sexual abuse,” which includes “human trafficking” in a list among other abuses, without any further definition. MD. CODE ANN. FAM. LAW §§ 5–701(x)(2)(ii) (2012) Name, age, and home address of the child and the child’s parent or other person who is responsible for the child’s care; Whereabouts of the child; Nature and extent of the abuse or neglect of the child, including any evidence or information available to the reporter concerning possible previous instances of abuse or neglect. Reporter