Date Collection and Dissemination

(a)The government of Guam shall, in cooperation with other appropriate authorities, collect and periodically publish statistical data on trafficking.

(b)The government of Guam shall elicit the cooperation and assistance of other government agencies, non-governmental organizations, and other elements of civil society as appropriate to assist in the data collection required under paragraph

(a)of this subsection.

(c)The appropriate authorities in each agency that play a vital role in addressing trafficking shall make best efforts to collect information relevant to tracking progress on trafficking, including but not limited to:

(1)numbers of investigations, arrests, prosecutions, and successful convictions of traffickers and those committing trafficking-related crimes (pimping, pandering, procuring, maintaining a brothel, child pornography, visa fraud, document fraud, and other crimes related to trafficking);

(2)the estimated number and demographic characteristics of persons engaged in violations of the criminal provisions defined in section 26.02 of this article as well as persons who purchase or receive commercial sex acts or sexually-explicit performances, or labor or services, performed by victims of trafficking in persons;

(3)statistics on the number of victims, including COL 6/21/2023 CH. 26 HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND CRIMINAL EXPLOITATION nationality, age, method of recruitment, and city, state, and country of origin;

(4)trafficking routes and patterns (states or countries of origin, transit states or countries, and destination states or countries);

(5)methods of transportation (car, boat, plane, foot), if any transportation took place; and

(6)social and economic factors that contribute to and foster the demand for all forms of exploitation of persons that lead to trafficking.