The Fort Bend Anti-Trafficking Collective (ATC)

The ATC is a multi-disciplinary task force that seeks to support and encourage collaboration among local, state, and federal law enforcement, prosecutors, and victim service providers to end human trafficking in Fort Bend County, Texas.

Membership is available for representatives from regulatory agencies, social service agencies, victim service providers, community-based organizations, faith-based organizations, and criminal justice system-based victim assistance components.

Partner agencies within the ATC are committed to collaborating in the fight against human trafficking by:

• Increase community awareness for the prevention and identification of human trafficking victims, 
• Increasing investigation and prosecution of human trafficking cases at the local, state, and federal levels, and 
• Providing coordinated, comprehensive, trauma-informed services to meet the individualized needs of human trafficking victims.

Fort Bend County covers more than 880 square miles and is home to over 800,000 residents. It is one of the most diverse counties in the nation, with a highly multicultural population: more than one in four residents are foreign-born, and roughly 40 percent speak a language other than English at home. The county sits at the crossroads of key transportation corridors, including I-69/US-59, the Westpark Tollway, and the Grand Parkway. These highways connect directly to Houston, a major trafficking hub, creating direct routes traffickers use to move between cities and counties. Combined with rapid population growth, widening economic inequality, and ongoing housing instability, these factors increase vulnerability to exploitation for both youth and adults across the community.

Since the ATC was established in 2024, thousands of trafficking cases in Texas have been reported to the National Human Trafficking Hotline. Collective partners have supported trafficking victims in Fort Bend for years, with rising identification, investigations, and prosecutions driven by coordinated training and cross-agency collaboration.

The ATC operates as a multi-disciplinary task force, strengthening partnerships between law enforcement, prosecutors, social services, medical providers, and community organizations. Together, we work to protect our neighborhoods, hold traffickers accountable, and ensure survivors receive trauma-informed services.

Fort Bend County deserves to be a safe community for our children, a place of recovery for survivors, and a hostile landscape for traffickers.  For more information, contact us.