Source Documents

The documentary record.

Primary legal sources, policy documents, international religious-freedom reports, case documents, and project research. Items without download links are forthcoming.

Primary Legal Sources

Policy Documents

  • Federal Strategic Action Plan on Services for Victims of Human Trafficking, 2013–2017

    DOJ OVC, January 2014

  • Biden National Action Plan to Combat Human Trafficking

    December 2021

  • FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin — A Victim-Centered Approach to Sex Trafficking Cases

    November 2015

  • Boyle-Laisure — Undoing Undue Influence

    47 Am. J. Trial Advoc. 23 (2023)

  • PIPATL Past Meetings Archive

  • U.S. TIP Reports 2023, 2024, 2025 (Argentina recommendations)

  • OVC FY2022 Enhanced Collaborative Model Task Force Solicitation

  • J/TIP FY2024 Grant Solicitation (DFOP0016706)

  • AAG Kristen Clarke remarks

    January 26, 2023

  • CRS Report R40190 (Doyle, 2009)

  • Pub. L. No. 115-393 (Frederick Douglass TVPRA, 2018)

  • Luis CdeBaca, Senate Judiciary Committee testimony, February 24, 2010

    Forthcoming
  • Freedom Network USA v. Trump, No. 1:25-cv-12419 (N.D. Ill., filed October 10, 2025) — complaint ¶128

    Forthcoming
  • DOJ press release, SPLC indictment, April 21, 2026

    Forthcoming

Grant Funding Sources

  • USASpending.gov — Keyword search tool for federal anti-trafficking awards

  • ACF Office on Trafficking in Persons (OTIP)

  • ACF Trafficking Victims Assistance Program (TVAP)

  • State Department Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (J/TIP)

  • Hassan BITE Model (Freedom of Mind Resource Center)

  • Human Trafficking Legal Center, 'Using Civil Litigation to Combat Human Trafficking: 2025 Data Update' (July 2026)

    Forthcoming

International / Religious-Freedom Sources

  • USCIRF — 'Anti-Cult Update: Religious Regulation in Russia' (Issue Update, July 2020) — Commissioners Abraham Cooper & Mohamed Magid

  • USCIRF 2023 Annual Report — Status of FoRB Issue Update (About-Picard law)

  • USCIRF Annual Reports — 'Weaponization of Legal Frameworks'

  • CAP-LC Written Statement to UN Human Rights Council

    A/HRC/62/NGO/102 (May 2026)

  • CESNUR Public Memorandum — "Abuse of Trafficking Laws Against Spiritual Communities" (June 2026) — Endorsed by Dershowitz, Sullivan, Barker, Bromley, and 16 additional scholars

  • Massimo Introvigne — "Brainwashing Returns Through Trafficking Laws: A New Threat to Religious Freedom," Bitter Winter (June 27, 2026)

  • LA Times, 'Groups Debate Impact of Moonie Court Ruling on Mainline Religions,' October 22, 1988 (Molko amicus record)

    Forthcoming
  • Religion News Service, September 19, 2025 (BAPS plaintiffs withdrawing)

    Forthcoming

Case Documents — USA v. Cherwitz & Daedone

Research and Analysis (from this project)

  • Steven Hassan — The Cult of Trump (Free Press, 2019)

  • Steven Hassan, doctoral dissertation, Fielding Graduate University (2020)

    Forthcoming